July 2011
1 post
April 2011
1 post
March 2011
1 post
February 2011
2 posts
December 2010
1 post
November 2010
3 posts
When the ghosts of me refuse to speak
And in my dreams I watch TV
I’m...
– DM Stith, A Braid of Voices
October 2010
2 posts
Few tasks more difficult
Than to write a treatise
On a man who looks
At an...
– “A Photograph” Czeslaw Milosz
September 2010
4 posts
August 2010
1 post
If it’s chariots or sandals,
I’ll take sandals.
I like the high...
– “A Traveler,” Denise Levertov
June 2010
6 posts
And I can’t prove that I’ve ever loved anyone,
but despite the smokingly...
– “Atlantis,” Shane Koyczan (roughly via Zac Chastain)
May 2010
3 posts
April 2010
1 post
Fruit Bats marvelously covering Halle & Oates. Yes, marvelously.
November 2009
2 posts
Sing on: somewhere, at some new moon,
We’ll learn that sleeping is not...
– “At the Galway Races,” WB Yeats
My sister and I are brilliant
12:12 PM Laura: i got your christmas present already. score.
12:43 PM me: Whoa. How did you know that I wanted a Taylor University sweatshirt covered in the blood of a goat for a ritualistic sacrifice for your future and to intercede on your behalf against the tyrannous Norse Gods?
12:44 PM Laura: i’m glad i don’t think like you.
me: I am your favorite crazy person
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October 2009
1 post
January 2009
1 post
Seems like I’ve always been looking for some other place/to get it...
– “For Everyman,” Jackson Browne
December 2008
1 post
July 2008
1 post
God is on the outside, where we think He is not; we’re not the custodians...
– Alfred Edakasi, my host father
June 2008
3 posts
Bishop NT Wright on The Colbert Report
Love, it don’t die;
it just goes from girl to girl,
Town to town, rose...
– “Black Rain, Black Rain,” AA Bondy
May 2008
2 posts
if I look
at the crystal moon, at the red branch
of the slow autumn at my...
– “If You Forget Me,” Pablo Neruda
April 2008
4 posts
Eternity
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sunrise. -William Blake