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Well, it is finals week here. We had our weekend class this weekend. It may have been the last weekend class I take in my MTSO career -- Hooray! Yesterday I finished writing my paper for Women in the NT world. This morning I took my Greek final. Now all I have to do is write a 12-15 page paper for my Genesis class. But today I am zonked out == mini stress release. We ran a few errand this afternoon, and then I filled in at work for two hours. I'm trying to wade through a bit of internet backlog. So sleepy -- off to bed soon, I think.
I read this on some website today, and I just thought it was very clever: "Snow Is Just Water Being Very Very Quiet"
And some more from the quotes collection:
"Are we, who want to create, in some way specially talented people? Or has everybody else simply given up, either by pressures of modesty or laziness, and closed their ears from their inner need to create, until that need has died, forgotten and abandoned? When you look at children, you start to think the latter. I still haven't met a child who doesn't love -- or who at least hasn't loved -- drawing, writing or some other creative activity." --Natalia Laurila
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. -W.H. Auden, poet (1907-1973)
How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. - John Burroughs
Paths are made by walking. -- Franz Kafka
"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action." --Frank Tibolt
In the depths of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. Albert Camus
There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints. -Pamela Hansford Johnson, poet and novelist (1912-1981)
“Climate change should not just be in the frosting of development, it’s got to be baked into the recipe of development.” World Bank President Robert Zoellick at the Bali Climate Conference
"We are here to witness; if we were not here the show would play to an empty house . . . .That is why I go for walks . . . to keep an eye on things." Annie Dillard
"...there are only two courses of thought at all seemly to a person of any intelligence. The one is: What am I to do at this next moment? -- or tonight, or tomorrow? And the other: What did God mean by creating the world, the sea, and the desert, the horse, the winds... amber, fishes, wine." Isak Dinesen
“Advent has moved away from an individualistic "waiting" for a savior's return and more toward what people of faith are called to do in order to create the “kindom” of God on earth for all creation. Advent is about active waiting and an active struggle to revolutionize our world.” UCC minister and professor, Dr. Christine Smith
One cannot relocate in any possible vantage point without being accountable for that movement. Vision is always a question of the power to see and perhaps the violence implicit in our visualizing practices. -- Donna Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
"Grief is the price we pay for love." Elizabeth II, Queen of England
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air... Ralph Waldo Emerson
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
"When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow." ~ Anais Nin
Rain and sun shall feed me now,
and roots, and nuts, and wild things,
and rustlings in the midnight wood,
half-mad, like Myrddin, wandering.
--Terri Windling
Hear these words from the poet Susan Griffin: "Where we see no image of justice the word injustice reminds us of what we want. Inside, this word makes circles like the hungry who cannot stop seeking, who stumble over mountains, through deserts. Inside me this word is like a lover seeking the dimensions of love." The word injustice reminds me of what I want. -Rev. Dr. Karen P. Oliveto, Pacific School of Religion
Here, from within my heart, I make the vow to shun all evil – to achieve the good. From deep within my heart I seek my refuge. Buddha
"I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government." - Cissy Farenthold
"I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament." - Alanis Morissette
"My advice to the women's clubs of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias." - James McNeill Whistler
"Most women are one man away from welfare." - Gloria Steinem
"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a door mat or a prostitute." - Rebecca West
"If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?" - Mary Astell
Jesus “restrained something. I say it with reverence; there was in that shattering personality a thread that must be called shyness . . . There was something that He covered constantly by abrupt silence or impetuous isolation. There was some one thing that was too great for God to show us when He walked upon our earth; and I have sometimes fancied that it was His mirth.” G. K. Chesterson
"There are books in which the footnotes or comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin are more interesting than the text. The world is one of these books." George Santayana
I read this on some website today, and I just thought it was very clever: "Snow Is Just Water Being Very Very Quiet"
And some more from the quotes collection:
"Are we, who want to create, in some way specially talented people? Or has everybody else simply given up, either by pressures of modesty or laziness, and closed their ears from their inner need to create, until that need has died, forgotten and abandoned? When you look at children, you start to think the latter. I still haven't met a child who doesn't love -- or who at least hasn't loved -- drawing, writing or some other creative activity." --Natalia Laurila
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. -W.H. Auden, poet (1907-1973)
How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. - John Burroughs
Paths are made by walking. -- Franz Kafka
"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action." --Frank Tibolt
In the depths of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. Albert Camus
There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints. -Pamela Hansford Johnson, poet and novelist (1912-1981)
“Climate change should not just be in the frosting of development, it’s got to be baked into the recipe of development.” World Bank President Robert Zoellick at the Bali Climate Conference
"We are here to witness; if we were not here the show would play to an empty house . . . .That is why I go for walks . . . to keep an eye on things." Annie Dillard
"...there are only two courses of thought at all seemly to a person of any intelligence. The one is: What am I to do at this next moment? -- or tonight, or tomorrow? And the other: What did God mean by creating the world, the sea, and the desert, the horse, the winds... amber, fishes, wine." Isak Dinesen
“Advent has moved away from an individualistic "waiting" for a savior's return and more toward what people of faith are called to do in order to create the “kindom” of God on earth for all creation. Advent is about active waiting and an active struggle to revolutionize our world.” UCC minister and professor, Dr. Christine Smith
One cannot relocate in any possible vantage point without being accountable for that movement. Vision is always a question of the power to see and perhaps the violence implicit in our visualizing practices. -- Donna Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
"Grief is the price we pay for love." Elizabeth II, Queen of England
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air... Ralph Waldo Emerson
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
"When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow." ~ Anais Nin
Rain and sun shall feed me now,
and roots, and nuts, and wild things,
and rustlings in the midnight wood,
half-mad, like Myrddin, wandering.
--Terri Windling
Hear these words from the poet Susan Griffin: "Where we see no image of justice the word injustice reminds us of what we want. Inside, this word makes circles like the hungry who cannot stop seeking, who stumble over mountains, through deserts. Inside me this word is like a lover seeking the dimensions of love." The word injustice reminds me of what I want. -Rev. Dr. Karen P. Oliveto, Pacific School of Religion
Here, from within my heart, I make the vow to shun all evil – to achieve the good. From deep within my heart I seek my refuge. Buddha
"I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government." - Cissy Farenthold
"I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament." - Alanis Morissette
"My advice to the women's clubs of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias." - James McNeill Whistler
"Most women are one man away from welfare." - Gloria Steinem
"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a door mat or a prostitute." - Rebecca West
"If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?" - Mary Astell
Jesus “restrained something. I say it with reverence; there was in that shattering personality a thread that must be called shyness . . . There was something that He covered constantly by abrupt silence or impetuous isolation. There was some one thing that was too great for God to show us when He walked upon our earth; and I have sometimes fancied that it was His mirth.” G. K. Chesterson
"There are books in which the footnotes or comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin are more interesting than the text. The world is one of these books." George Santayana
