December 2010
37 posts
“I looked at him; my eyes were watering with embarrassment & tears. Still he...”
– Jack Kerouac, On the Road (via goodnight-moon)
Santa’s secret cables leaked from the North Pole... →
A Woman Meets An Old Lover
He with whom I ran hand in hand kicking the leathery leaves down Oak Hill Path thirty years ago appeared before me with anxious face, pale, almost unrecognized, hesitant, lame. He whom I cannot remember hearing laugh out loud but see in mind’s eye smiling, self-approving, wept on my shoulder. He who seemed always to take and not give, who took me so long to forget, remembered everything I...
“I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.”
– J.D. Salinger (via caughtbythewindow, cockmouth)
Laura Marling - The Captain and Hourglass
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A Journal Entry by Søren Kierkegaard:
“… and this terrible restlessness—as if wanting to convince myself every moment that it would still be possible to return to her—O God, would that I dared to do it. It is so hard; my last hope in life I had placed in her, and I must deprive myself of it. How strange, I had never really thought of getting married, but I never believed that it would turn out this way and leave so...
“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love...”
– Charles Bukowski (via michellemacnamara)
A Dedication
When I was 17, my creative writing teacher gave me A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius as a gift at the end of the year. This is the dedication he wrote to me on the inside:
Daryn,
Please don’t tell the others but I liked your writing more than anyone else’s in the class because of your beat-like, kerouac-like approach. You’ve got to keep writing poetry and a book of...
Grace (greis):
n-
a. the free and unmerited favour of God shown towards man
b. the divine assistance and power given to man in spiritual rebirth and sanctification
c. the condition of being favoured or sanctified by God
d. an unmerited gift, favour, etc, granted by God.
Leonard Cohen - If It Be Your Will
If it be your...
“You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place, I told him, like...”
– Azar Nafisi (via nataliedawn)
Humility and the Persuit of Peace Between...
The idea of being humble is intrinsically religious, stemming from the morals and values that are often associated with being religious. While this may be the case, it is clear that many have not exhibited this apparently religious way of living or thinking. In order for different religions to co-exist in peace, and for the inhabitants of the world to be more than merely tolerant...
Otis Redding - I’ve Been Loving You Too Long
Mumford and Sons - White Blank Page
jhr Hosts Abed's Silent Fight (my article on the...
The audience settles in their seats, tubs of popcorn in front of them, silently stirring while the projector is set up and the documentary they have all come to see begins.
The Concordia chapter of Journalists for Human Rights held the premiere of Abed’s Silent Fight last week. Director Jean-Philippe Marquis is a journalism diploma student at Concordia, having previously...
Buddhism and Social Reform
While Buddhist teachings did not necessarily seek to bring about social reform, the very foundations of the religion lend to a motivated change in society. Central to Buddhist teachings is “ethical principles and moral conduct,” which are essential to “bringing the individual closer to his or her spiritual goal” (Orr, pg 25). The first Noble Truth is that of suffering (dukkha), which states that...
In-Flight Manuscript
Already, I am away from people who say “bonjour” first.
They always say to pin the oxygen masks on yourself first in case of a decrease in air pressure. To help yourself before you help the child beside you. I always thought that was strange. I know it’s so you keep your head so you can help those in need, but it doesn’t matter. I always knew that I would be fixing it...
The woman at the coffee kiosk was admiring my snake ring as I chose a muffin this morning. She asked me if I was born in the year of the snake.
“People born in the year of the snake are very loyal. When someone does them wrong, they don’t revenge them. They take a long time and then they make peace,” she said.
This woman looked into my soul.
Ballad of Hollis Brown - Bob Dylan
He lived on...
