Can you promise that I will come back? ~ Bilbo BagginsNo. & if you do, you will not be the same. ~ Gandalf the hobbit: an unexpected journey // film version We've all had those moments when we're smack-dab in the middle of something & we sort of pause & huff in frustration with an … Continue reading Ideals Complicate Life
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We Are All Desperate Here
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars, … Continue reading We Are All Desperate Here
Little Lighthouses
"The world is indeed full of peril, & in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, & though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."~ JRR Tolkien // The Fellowship of the Ring Friday afternoon, I was feeling a bit out … Continue reading Little Lighthouses
Street-Talks
"So when we meet as strangers, when even friends look like strangers, it is good to remember that we need each other greatly you and I, more than much of the time we dare to imagine, more than more of the time we dare to admit."~ Frederick Buechner ~ The Hungering Dark // Yesterday, my … Continue reading Street-Talks
Death to the Shadow
"Last of all Hurin stood alone. Then he cast aside his shield, and wielded an axe two-handed; and it is sung that the axe smoked in the black blood of the troll-guard of Gothmog until it withered, and each time that he slew, Hurin cried: 'Aure entuluva! Day shall come again!' Seventy times he uttered … Continue reading Death to the Shadow
:: Unexpected Friendships :: Pt. II
"So when we meet as strangers, when even friends look like strangers, it is good to remember that we need each other greatly you and I, more than much of the time we dare to imagine, more than much of the time we dare to admit." ~ Frederick Buechner ~ If you haven't read Pt. … Continue reading :: Unexpected Friendships :: Pt. II
Thoughts on What Makes Life Worth Living from BBC’s Poldark
"Life holds very few things which are genuinely worth having. And if you possess them...then nothing else matters. And if you don't possess them...then everything else is worthless."~ Ross Poldark ~BBC Poldark Ross & Demelza Poldark :: my 2nd favourite fictional couple 🖤 Sometimes Ross had wise words to say in spite of himself; though … Continue reading Thoughts on What Makes Life Worth Living from BBC’s Poldark
Relentless Goodness in 2020
"Grace will lead me home. Through every trial I have come; only Your grace will lead me home." ~ "Grace Will Lead Me Home" by David Dunn ~ It's been a beautiful fight, lovely humans. And it still is. Perhaps that seems like romanticizing hardship. Perhaps it seems like I'm glossing over all the horrible … Continue reading Relentless Goodness in 2020
December :: The Stubbornness of Hope ::
“These are the times that try men’s souls.” ~ The American Crisis by Thomas Paine aka T Paine, as my history teacher used to call him ~ T Paine wrote those words in December 1776, when things were topsy-turvy in our nation; it’s December 2020 and stuff’s still up in the air.These are the times … Continue reading December :: The Stubbornness of Hope ::
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