March 2012
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“Loving you has taught me the infinite
longing of the self to be given away
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– Wendell Berry, A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979-1997
February 2012
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Dear Committee for the Distribution of Snow,
I write to you today to beseech you to give my area, the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts, a snow day tomorrow.
I do not ask this idly, because it would give me a break from work (it would) and let me catch up on my truly terrible XSLT project (also true), but because I think I would in fact use it well. My proposed schedule, should I be given a snow day tomorrow:
sleep in a little,...
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thebronzemedal:
Whiskeytown ~ Dreams (Fleetwood...
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Download the Complete Chronicles of Narnia →
Haven’t tried this myself because several years ago J gave me the versions read by Paris Geller’s old boyfriend and Captain Jean-Luc Picard, but it seems like a pretty sweet hookup.
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Why Do Lent? (a beginner's guide) →
“Why a Failing Lent Actually Succeeds.”
Have a good Ash Wednesday, y’all.
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“The Negro has already come outside. His forehead is an ambiguous sienna color...”
– — Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
(a lovely novel that ends in ashes.)
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a shirt a day keeps the drama away. →
helenlindsay:
can you survive in the same shirt every day for a year? my friend nathan did.
Simple, humorous reflection on going without, both Lindsay’s and Nathan’s posts. Among the things I’m considering fasting from this Lent are new clothes and online shopping.
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“For now, I’ll keep hosting small groups in my home every Sunday night....”
– Annie S. Butterworth, a former Teen Democrat writer I knew, in a lovely, thoughtful piece called “give me a bigger heart.”
With some overlap with my thoughts about community and service in a post I wrote some time ago, but more eloquent than I could ever manage.
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Weekly Standard: Obamacare Vs. The Catholics : NPR →
ofletters:
“…this isn’t a religio-cultural fight over Latin in the Mass or Gregorian chant. The subjects of contraception, abortion, and sterilization are not ornamental aspects of the Catholic faith; they flow from the Church’s central teachings about the dignity of the human person.
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“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is...”
– GK Chesterton (via elizabethjoyhooker)