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Sunday, March 29, 2009
RAISING SAND, Alison Krauss
and Robert Plant's collabrative album/cd,
is, to me, a series of
variations spiritually derived from the LED ZEPPELIN
song "Stairway to Heaven".
Love that subdued, bittersweet, down home rollikin' sound.
Thank you,
T Bone Burnett.
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"She had
no techniques," mega-director John Huston
said of Marilyn Monroe. "It was all the
truth."
-- from Gloria Steinem's book MARILYN: NORMA
JEAN
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herself, Marilyn said, "I am not interested
in money. I just want to be wonderful." |
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Monday, March 23, 2009
The creative impulse is suppressed when the mind
is
distracted by extraneous amusements,
created elsewhere
by someone else .
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To live calmly
in the midst of
constant
distraction,
would require
the
concentration
of Buddha
himself:.
I do believe we can
slowdown
the unrelenting
assault
upon stillness
and singular
attention,
if we,
more & more
often
turn it all
off
and just
be,
Stillness is the key,
stay
under its spell
as long
as you can,
for
that is where
love
lingers and
strengthens,
where words
dissolve
into deeper forms
of
language.
-BJ
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I dunno, talking
to yourself can be some kind
of a cure, I guess.
Ambiguity is my style.
Androgony is my life. |
Michael
Caine in the movie IS
ANYBODY THERE? is quite
wonderful as an aged
magician nearing the end of
his journey, slipping not
altogether gracefully into
realms of dementia,
decidedly in need of the
assisted living community to
which he is assigned by
conditions beyond his
control. There, he acquires,
reluctantly at first, an
incidental apprentice in the
person of the young son of
the couple who run the
facility. My favorite moment
is when one of the
client/residents, a billuous
lady who floats through the
movie in kind of a beautific
trance, responds to one of
the tricks the
boy demonstrates with a
beaming expression of
amazement as she says,
"Abracadabra!"
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Our daily need
is to set up for ourselves a series of small, quickly achievable
successes, thereby creating confidence for meeting life's larger
demands.
"This day is holy to the Lord your God;
do not mourn or weep."
-Nehemiah 8:9
Variation does
not enhance stability.
Innovation
requires
space,
freedom,
and
control.
Absence as a Window
Take a deep breath
and blow it all out!
You need not be
complicated
or unsure
of your own
consistent
simplicity. Fear not. Be Loved.
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Saturday, March 9, 2009
Up then
from the
lowlands
of global despair
and "evangelical
pessimism". *
Up frorn
the fog
of fear
and
helplessness,
up from .
the morass
of doubt
and indecision.
Up to
the highlands
of "YES-
by God's grace
and through.
inspired
ingenuity &
cooperation -
"YES,
WE CAN!"
*Lynda Resnik
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Excerpt from a review (check it
out on line at Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Wmter 2007):
Down under the sea perhaps there are
wise fish, wary of the wiggly worm dangling from a hook,
greatly outnumbered, I'm sure, by masses of more
gullible ones who devoutly and completely believe that
the bait is paradise itself come true.
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| Franz Wright's
poetry invites us to the edge, to that risky precipice where words
succeed in their failure; to that frighten ing fulcrum where the world
teeters. back and forth, between abyss and icon; and to the dark comers
of a brokenhearted world where there are holes cut out for the grace to
get in. - JAMES K. A. SMITH |
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God's Silence, by Franz
Wright. Knopf, 160 pages, $25.
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No time to review
or assess
when everything
is ending and
beginning
all at once.
Only time to
hold on to
whatever you can
hold onto
and let the rest
fly.
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| Re-dedicated to
Elaine Knapp. who blessed this effort in
2006 with a remembrance in her will. Thank:
you again. Elaine! |
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