It’s so easy to get stuck in the waiting place, putting things off until later, even when those things are vitally important to making your dreams come true. But the truth is that, in order to make progress, you need to physically and mentally fight against the momentum of ordinary events. The default state of any new idea is failure. It’s the execution–the fight against inertia–that matters. You have to remember to go against your instinct, to confront the ordinary, and to put up a fight.
This is, of course, mentally and physically taxing.
Carissa Thorp
Monday, November 05, 2012
The Fight | Dustin Curtis
Monday, January 02, 2012
Disturb us, Lord - Sir Francis Drake
Disturb us, Lord, when
We are too pleased with ourselves,
When our dreams have come true
Because we dreamed too little,
When we arrived safely
Because we sailed too close to the shore.Disturb us, Lord,
when with the abundance of things we possess
We have lost our thirst For the waters of life;
Having fallen in love with life,
We have ceased to dream of eternity
And in our efforts to build a new earth,
We have allowed our vision
Of the new Heaven to dim.Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly,
To venture on wilder seas
Where storms will show Your mastery;
Where losing sight of land,
We shall find the stars.We ask you to push back
The horizons of our hopes;
And to push back the future
In strength, courage, hope, and love.This we ask in the name of our Captain,
Who is Jesus Christ.Sir Francis Drake
Picturing Winter, a Solstice Celebration
Great collection of 70+ winter images, including the above, East by Stephen T. Johnson. A lovely contrast to the expected 40°C day here.
Monday, November 28, 2011
common book of prayer by Chris Clardy
common book of prayer
by Chris Clardyall the ways which women pray
have yet to be forgotten—
the way you fold the shirt (between your hands)
is a folding of your hands,
the way you bow your head over the head of the person
lying fever-small in your bed
is a bowing of the head,
the way when that is done you listen with your eyes closed, wait for dawn,
lift the latch, raise the shade, pour the tea,
and, turning toward the mirror,
see all things coming
because you
are willing to say all things can come and are coming
is a willing of all things—
and all these ways
are pages in your book (your body is the book)
with no words or words inside it
is praying is your body is a book
written
every time you move—
all the ways which women pray with their bodies
have yet to be recalled—
forget words—
this will happen (any way)
and your book of prayer will be praying,
praying in the way
women always
have prayed~~~~~~~~~~~
Posted with permission of the poet.