Day of The Prez

"I never did give anybody hell. 

I just told them the truth and they thought it was hell."

<> Harry S. Truman <>

Truman was a boss, ladies and gents.

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True story.

{half way through McCullough's biagraphy and -loving- it!}

<> the effigy <>

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God is more than a face

that waits

pulseless

behind Death's

torn

veil

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A Word From ~ Frederick Buechner

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"We have seen more than we let on, even to ourselves.
Through some moment of beauty or pain, some sudden turning of our lives, through some horror of the twelve o'clock news, some dream, some breakfast on the first and last of all our days, 

we catch glimmers at least of what the saints are blinded by. 

Only then, unlike the saints, more pigs always than heroes, we tend to go on as though nothing has happened.

To go on as though something  has happened even though we are not sure what is was or just where we are supposed to go with it, is to enter that dimension of life that religion is a word for."

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{via my recently finished copy of Buechner's "Alphabet of Grace"}

A Word From ~ e.e.cummings

i will wade out
                        till my thighs are steeped in burning flowers
I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
                                       Alive
                                                 with closed eyes
to dash against darkness

Perspective

Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now... 

...and then got it back again.

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Frances Rodman

{the power of conviction...one of God's greatest gifts...}

<> another year around the sun <>

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It was I who occurred

{more exactly emerged}

these many years ago

{so the story goes}

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but the truth be told, 

I am not old

In fact, I am still arriving...

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War is older than Mankind...

...But it's younger than Grace...

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Joe Pug

Happy Memorial Day...

On This Day of Mothers...

...be sure to hug yours...

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Beginning, The Trials of

{via}

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...But sometimes the memories trail behind like tin cans, 

clanging loudly with each forward step...

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Feline and Sir "So-Fine"

Just Sir Sean Connery inspecting a cat's paw...

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Happy Weekend, folks.

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that I can be comforted by the hand that chokes me

is the great irony of sin

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{somber ponderings on the human condition stirred up by the words of O'Connor, Lewis, et al.}

{perhaps I need to take time to reread the Anne of Green Gables series again...}

A(nother) Word From ~ Flannery O'Connor & The Friday that Brought Good

"The poet is traditionally a blind man, but the Christian poet, and storyteller as well, is like the blind man whom Christ touched, who looked then and saw men as if they were trees, but walking. This is the beginning of vision, and it is an invitation to deeper and stranger visions that we shall have to learn to accept if we want to realize a truly Christian literature.” 

 <> O'Connor <>

{today we remember...Acts 17:27-28}

From the Vault :: Mending Paste For Mothers

she holds the broken pieces in her aging hands
memories further shattered
by her children's play
forever breaking and remaking
what is important

another apron string sliced
cord cut
from her past
a quiet tear for what was
and what isn't
...anymore...


i'm sorry the past is so breakable
i'm sorry your hurts can't all be fixed with glue and kisses
...and mine can...

To Procrastinate is Divine

How is a girl supposed to get any schoolwork done when such a thing as Cray Grant .gifs exist on the internet...

"The Awful Truth" ~ 1937

Sigh...I need a screwball movie marathon stat...

A Word From ~ Flannery O'Connor

"There is something in us, as storytellers and listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored. The reader of today looks for this motion, and rightly so, but what he has forgotten is the cost of it. His sense of evil is diluted or lacking altogether, and so he has forgotten the price of restoration. When he reads a novel, he wants either his senses tormented or his spirits raised. He wants to be transported, instantly, either to mock damnation or mock innocence."

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Flannery O'Connor

Love In All Its Loveliness

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❤ Play and Enjoy ❤ 
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❤ A Smorgasbord of Love ❤

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❤ >>> happy valentine's day <<< ❤

It's Coming...

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 p.s. Stay tuned for some awesome vintage lovey-dovey-ness.

The Burden of Living

The life that I touch for good or ill will touch another life

...and that in turn another...

until who knows where the trembling stops 
or in what far place my touch will be felt. 

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Frederick Buechner

MLK Day

 "...And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. 

I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land."

<> Martin Luther King, Jr <>

and so it goes

via

He got all of her, 

except the innermost box and the kiss. 

He never knew about the box, 

and in time he gave up trying for the kiss.
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Barrie