enlightenment

"The person who finds his homeland sweet is a tender beginner.
He to whom every soil is as his native one is already strong.
But he is perfect to whom the entire world is a foreign place."

- A 12th century monk.

the economy of detachment

Having put your hope in Christ
who provides for all creation
and nurtures it,
keep away from all unjust gains,
and do not be too attached even to honest income.
Put it to good use
and let the poor share in it as much as possible.

- St. Gregory Palamas

this sounds a little like barack obama's idea
of spreading the wealth...how can we presume to be a
christian country without doing that?

like a lyre players' bad habits

"True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should speak to everyone."

-Claudio Magris

on my way to read the book BLINDLY

i galloped and galloped only to find
that when i arrived
i was still late

- translation from
-hectoro roberto chavero aramburo
(troubadores argentines) + 1992

romance and chivalry for the new age

having a naked picture ( )

of your significant other ( )

on your cellphone is an advertisement ( )

that you're sexually active ( )

to a degree that gives you status ( )

it's an electronic hickey

--Rick Peters - a washigton state lawyer discussing sextexting among teenagers

rethinking existentialism

whoever does not live in poetry
cannot survive on this earth.

-halldor kiljan laxness + 1998

did he have to blow up so many amplifiers

when the love of power
yields to the power of love
then there will be peace

- jimi hendrix

i caught this on a bumper