November 2011
1 post
“There are times in our lives when we choose our challenge, and there’s...”
– Travis Roy
October 2011
3 posts
“I ask this… If there should be an assassination, I would hope that five,...”
– Harvey Milk #nationalcomingoutday
“Love your art and it will love you back.”
“There are so many noises going on inside of you, so many echoes of all sorts, so...”
– Rev. Dr. Howard Thurman, “The Sound of the Genuine”
September 2011
4 posts
“People who learn to love themselves also become more autonomous, not in the...”
– Robert Wuthnow After Heaven: Spirituality in America Since the 1950s
“In those days,
we finally chose
to walk like giants
& hold the world
in...”
– StoryPeople
“It’s difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes...”
– Anne Frank
“All I have is a voice
To undo the folded lie,
The romantic lie in the brain...”
– From W. H. Auden’s poem “September 1, 1939”
August 2011
1 post
“Gospel music opens up doors that the audience doesn’t even realized are...”
– Mackie Spradley, our gospel choir director.
June 2011
6 posts
“Let it be said of us this day that our agenda will be to pour love into the...”
– Rev. Dr. Jo Hudson, Cathedral of Hope, “The Gay Agenda”
“A religion true to its nature must also be concerned about man’s social...”
– Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or...”
– Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“Living a success-obsessed life can lead us to forget that ultimately it is...”
– Rev. Dr. Jo Hudson - “There Is A Fire In The Auditorium”
“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
May 2011
12 posts
“Despite all the crassness of life, despite all the hardness of life, despite all...”
– Howard Thurman
“I hate to tell you that you can’t get through life without getting your...”
– Photojournalism professor Rita Reed, during a particularly reflective Picture Story class discussion a few springs ago.
“There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in...”
– Ernst Haas
“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim....”
– Elie Wiesel, in his 1986 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.
A new definition of Greatness [ MLK ]
from The Drum Major Instinct sermon by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The setting is clear. James and John are making a specific request of the master. They had dreamed, as most of the Hebrews dreamed, of a coming king of Israel who would set Jerusalem free and establish his kingdom on Mount Zion, and in righteousness rule the world. And they thought of Jesus as this kind of king. And they...
“Why will you take by force what you may have quietly by love?”
– Chief Powhatan, in a letter to John Smith in 1607
“[I]n such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the...”
– Howard Zinn (and Albert Camus, really) in A People’s History of the United States, which I am starting for the third time and am determined to finish.
MLK quotation clarification: my thoughts
Hey, I reposted and shared it too because I agreed with the sentiment and knew part of the quote to be King’s:
I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate...
“I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the...”
– Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
April 2011
13 posts
“So my unsolicited advice to women in the workplace is this. When faced with...”
– Tina Fey, Bossypants (via sbg)
“Now the supreme irony here is that you have all placed so much importance on the...”
– Neale Donald Walsch, “Conversations with God”
“We must rapidly begin the shift from a “thing-oriented” society to a...”
– Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (via hkibb)
“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all, those who live...”
– Dumbledore
“I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there can be any kindness...”
– William Penn
Me: We'll be ok.
Drew: Yeah, we're too cool not to be ok.
From the archives: my choir, Boston...
Phoebe's Very Short List of Very Short Lists (or:...
1. Endeavors in which it is a very bad idea to procrastinate:
Writing a Master’s thesis.
A Biggest Loser competition.
2. Items that are particularly exciting to discover are beginning to no longer fit properly:
Your swimsuit.
Your World Series ring.
WatchThis is pretty awesome. Once you figure out how it works, you can create some really cool stuff!
davidkillingback:
:-)
seawitchery:
I started out clicking strategically… and by the end was just wildly clicking and dancing in my chair.
biancavirina:
CLICK THE SQUARES.
THE WHOLE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THIS.
THIS THIS THIS THIS!
“We accept the love we think we deserve”
– Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“Harry did not ask how Dumbledore knew. He had never seen a wizard work things...”
– Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
March 2011
6 posts
“We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received wisdom… but we...”
– Tenzin Gyatso (via quote-book)
“If you had ever told me at the Freep that you’d be working for a...”
– Friend and former Daily Free Press colleague John Tozzi in an eloquent and encouraging response to my latest life update, once again proving that I am blessed the highest calibre of friends in the world.
“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral...”
– Dante
[part of a beautiful card sent to me by my friend Jon]
“The humor, the sadness, the EVERYTHING-ness and American-ness of these pictures!”
– Jack Kerouac introducing Robert Frank’s “The Americans.” (I finally own my own copy!)
February 2011
8 posts
“When the grace of G-d is involved, there is nothing so broken that it cannot be...”
– Rev. Dawson Taylor, Cathedral of Hope
“Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals...”
– Love Actually
“Love is all over the place;
there’s nothing wrong with your face.”
– Ani Difranco, Present/Infant