September 2011
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“If at the beginning you don’t show who you are,
You will never be able to...”
– Don Juan Manuel, El conde Lucanor
August 2011
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“Alone in your mind, waiting for the sun to shine
Alone in your mind, waiting...”
– Your Disguise, James Greenspun
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“Cause I’m not lost, just looking for footprints.
I’m taking it one step...”
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“If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a...”
– Michael Crichton
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“When I saw you I fell in love. And you smiled because you knew.”
– Arrigo Boito
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Beauty. Worth. Jesus.
The Alpha and the Omega fell madly and passionately in love with us the moment we entered His mind. After creating us, He longed to embrace us, but we were drowning in sin and condemned to die. It was in that moment that He decided He’d do whatever it took to save his precious children. He couldn’t bear spending eternity without us.
Incredible.
So He set aside His everlasting,...
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50 Ways to be More Humble
Use the response, “It’s my pleasure,” when someone thanks you for doing something.
Use the response “I’d be honored” when someone asks you to help them or do something with them.
Listen more than you talk
Count to 3 before adding to a conversation to ensure the other person is done
Be willing to follow another person in conversation even if you don’t get to talk about your idea
Always offer...
Word of the day
couth |kuːθ| humorous
adjective: cultured, refined, and well mannered : it is more couth to hold your shrimp by the tail.
noun: good manners; refinement
Yep, I’m going to be using this word a lot today and see how many heads I can turn.
Dear ma’am, that dress you are wearing today, along with your hair, makes you look positively couth! How do you manage it?
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“I cannot, for the life of me, understand my heart.”
– Jim Elliot
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“I’m bored” is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big,...”
– Louis C. K.
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“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At...”
– C.S. Lewis.
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“Authentic beauty may very well be one of the rarest earthly treasures today. It...”
– Leslie Ludy, Authentic Beauty
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Summer means movie time, right?
I think I’ve watched around, ahem, 7 movies in the last 5 or so days. I’ve been super bored and haven’t known quite what to do with myself since being home from camp. And I think I’ve discovered some new favorites:
Down With Love.
This movie is so witty, I can’t even stand it. The humor, the unexpected plot twists (seriously, I didn’t even see this one...
Today it was my dad’s birthday. Being a small family (it’s just my parents and me), we decided to take the cake over to our neighbor’s house to celebrate with them, since they’re practically family anyway. We sat around and enjoyed the cake and their grandkids’ smiles, and each other’s company and a few games of Rummikub down in their screened-in porch, with the...
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“Why don’t we dance anymore?
I’m not ok with that.
Why don’t...”
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“I’ve told the Lord I want to be an obedient servant, and He shot back,...”
– Passion and Purity
Cookie Dough and Coffee
I was with Elise and Libby the first time we stole cookie dough from the kitchen at camp. It was during week four - high school week - and our village was off. I was too scared to do anything remotely illicit, so I made them walk down the crumbly stairs to the kitchen basement, while I stayed above and kept “watch.” As I watched them walk down in the dim flickering yellow haze from the...
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“May God satisfy the desires of her heart, draw her close, consume her. May He...”
– Adam Young
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“Let love explode and bring the dead to life - a love so bold to see a revolution...”
