June 2010
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Reading and watching a lot this summer…hope I get through everything. Reads: Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud Misc. comic books (the far side, get fuzzy) Graffiti L.A. by Steve Grody Tales of the Unexpected by Roald Dahl Romans by Paul One Secret Thing by Sharon Olds My Wicked Wicked Ways by Sandra Cisneros Maps and Legends by Michael Chabon The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S....
“It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you...”
– Johnathan Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
(via quotewhore) (via sheandhercat)
But I want to let go of the trivial items of life and take hold of the life that is truly life. I want to really live for you, Jesus. I don’t want the things I own to end up owning me.
hair
random bit, but I feel like cutting my hair short. Like really short. But then I also like my hair now……………… No wonder why Hannah Montana wears a wig, that way she gets the best of both worlds. Oh wait her hair is pretty much the same length either way oops.
It’s weird but amazing how music has this some sort of power. They have this force to bring back memories, moments, and people you have met throughout your life. Like a moment has brought you to who you are today, I believe music has the same power. When I listen to a certain song, it takes me back like life flashing backward before me to a certain memory of person.
There are songs that I laugh...
“The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (via crookedtooth)
Wet Hair
Head heavy with what we’re so light in Turn off the tap, reach for the towel Rub hair ‘gainst cotton and open a tight tin Why does hair gel have to smell so foul? Get in the car and let it blow in the wind, “Nature’s hair dryer knows best”; I grinned — I wrote this a while ago, it reminds me of shel silverstein’s poems, maybe because it’s so silly
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known...”
– Elizabeth Kubler Ross
happy Father’s day.
“On the further bank the willows wept in perpetual lamentation, their hair about...”
– Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
Sunscreen →
“In 2007 the FDA published draft regulations that would prohibit companies from labeling sunscreens with an SPF (sun protection factor) higher than “SPF 50+.” The agency wrote that higher values were “inherently misleading,” given that “there is no assurance that the specific values themselves are…
PLEASE READ especially if you’re out in the sun a lot!! Check out the website at the...
Contemplation
Is it better to have a long, detailed list of to-do’s or a shorter, more encompassing list? The former is just broken down so that you can check off more things. Would that make you feel more accomplished? Or would the long list just seem overwhelming?
Be strong, and let your heart take courage
Above everything, when you wait on God, do so in the spirit of abounding hopefulness. It is God in His glory, in His power, in His love longing to bless you that you are waiting on.
If you say that you are afraid of deceiving yourself with vain hope, because you do no see or feel any warrant in your present state for such special expectations, my answer is: It is God who is the warrant for...
