No one can tell me when I’m getting overwhelmed. Pretty much anyone can tell when I’m getting overwhelmed. These two facts are in my mind the moment I open my eyes Tuesday morning. They have taken me more time to acknowledge than I would like to admit. And yet if there’s one thing I know, it’s that the things we
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“Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson People are killed every day. I have this thought before I’m even awake. A dream, again, inescapable. Unavoidable. I get up and get ready, trying to stop thinking about the reality, not feel it crowding in as I look at my teeth and brush them in the mirror.
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“Bar the lowly, and no one worthwhile will enter.” – Bonnie Friedman I’m trying to find only the best and brightest thoughts. The big ones that can help make my dreams come true, or lead me to success, or whatever I’m selfishly idolizing at the moment, these are the thoughts I want, and only these. Even lust for God, as
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“This man, I think, wanted to enchant the reader, to set in words certain amorphous and important sensations he had experienced…. “He wanted to transcribe his own inchoate experience. He wanted it to become art. He felt, as many of us do, that he had a right to that. Perhaps he wanted to feel his suffering had been worthwhile, was
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“…life does not move in the same way as a group of clouds; From your work, you will be able one day to gather yourself.” – Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936), trans. Robert Bly And what is our work? The great Spanish writer and poet Unamuno said “sowing yourself.” “Throw yourself like seed as you walk, and into your own field,”
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