November 2011
40 posts
“I believe in the kingdom come. Then all the colors will bleed into one.”
– From the song ‘I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For’ by U2
“Don’t you know? You are life itself.”
– From the song ‘Wild is the Wind’ by Nina Simone
“All the wild horses tell her with tears in their eyes: “May no man’s...”
– From the song ‘All The Wild Horses’ by Ray LaMontagne
“All that is understood is forgiven.”
– From ‘The Garden of Eden’ by Ernest Hemingway
If there's a heaven... this is what it looks like:
“But if I make the pearly gates I’ll do my best to make a drawing Of God and Lucifer A boy and girl An angel kissing on a sinner A monkey and a man…” From the song ‘The Trapeze Swinger’ by Iron & Wine
“This flesh and bone is just the way that you are tied in.”
– From the song ‘I Grieve’ by Peter Gabriel
“The child is precious, but not so precious as the bearing of it. That is as real...”
– From ‘To A God Unknown’ by John Steinbeck
“I have no power to punish. Perhaps you must punish yourself if you find that...”
– From ‘To A God Unknown’ by John Steinbeck
My Religion
“I thought the good are destroyed while the evil survive and prosper. I thought that once an angry and disgusted God poured molten fire from a crucible to destory or to purify his little handiwork of mud. I thought I had inherited both the scars of the fire and the impurities which made the fire necessary — all inherited, I thought. All inherited. Maybe you’ll come to know that...
“There’s only one thing that you need to own and that is hunger, hunger...”
– Disappearing Act by U2
What is love?
“My salvation lies in your love.” From the song Orange Sky by Alexi Murdoch “Love: it will not betray you, dismay, or enslave you. It will set you free.” From the song Sigh No More by Mumford & Sons “The city’s a flood and our love turns to rust We’re beaten and blown by the wind, trampled in dust I’ll show you a place high on desert plains...
“And if the thundercloud passes rain, so let it rain. Let it rain.”
– “MLK” by U2
“Charity, dance with me
Turn me around tonight
Up through the spiral staircase...”
– “Promenade” by U2
What I've Been Listening To...
SPOTIFY PLAYLIST: November 21 - 27 [Click to play!]
1. “A Million Years” by Alexander 2. “Spectrum” by Florence & The Machine 3. “Original Sin” by Geographer 4. “Verona” by Geographer 5. “Wolf & I” by Oh Land 6. “Promenade” by U2 7. “MLK” by U2 8. “Disappearing Act” by U2 9. “A Sort of...
Maria Montessori on Humans as Cosmic Forces......
“The embryo, in fact, can be subjected to influences which are capable of working changes in it. This means that man, by acting on the embryo, can experimentally alter the course of life.
Hence we can say that man, by using his intelligence, has been able to beautify and enrich the earth… We begin to see one of the purposes of man’s life on earth, and to understand that man...
FILM
“Rabbit Hole” w. Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart 4/5
I really enjoyed this film. It’s a rather heavy film, as it tells of a married couple trying to figure out how life could possibly go on after their 4 year old son is killed in a car accident. However, it was also a rather positive interpretation of dealing with grief of that magnitude. The process the characters are...
