July 2012
12 posts
“Love is not an emotion. God is Love, but God is not an emotion. We may not...”
– Madeline L’Engle (via philippe-lazaro)
“experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to...”
– aldous huxley (via flummoxedbird)
the tilt shift
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. a phenomenon in which your lived experience seems oddly inconsequential once you put it down on paper, which turns an epic tragicomedy into a sequence of figures on a model train set, assembled in their tiny classrooms and workplaces, wandering along their own well-trodden arcs—peaceable, generic and out of focus.
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The ‘Busy’ Trap →
ridingwithstrangers:
By TIM KREIDER
If you live in America in the 21st century you’ve probably had to listen to a lot of people tell you how busy they are. It’s become the default response when you ask anyone how they’re doing: “Busy!” “So busy.” “Crazy busy.” It is, pretty obviously, a boast disguised as a complaint. And the stock response is a kind of congratulation: “That’s a good problem to...
