February 2011
85 posts
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Did you know that 80% of UCSD students could not find the error above? Repost this with the title “what’s wrong here”, and when you click “post “, the answer will be really obvious.
“We are what we believe we are.”
—(via loveeverybodyalways)
Real Music
I remember my first real encounter with real music. He was singing his soul hit “Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay” - he came through the van’s radio so clearly and genuinely. His voice was raspy, but melodic; hoarse, yet fluid. He sang about things I didn’t understand - but the words met me in the soul and talked to me, this 9 or 10 year old, in some musical prose I could hardly reason or resolve.
The tune seemed somber and gentile. He sang about such a simple thing - just sittin’. Being a kid, I could definitely access that, if nothing else, from this man’s melodic and melismatic narrative. I don’t know if I will ever be able to sufficiently articulate that moment. I can say it was a momentous one. My first taste of soul music; of real music. Otis Redding’s 33 year old tune, at that time, did something formative within me. Somehow my musical sensibility was actuated when this soul crooner caused air to pass through his vocal folds.
I was in the van with my maternal grandmother, Grandma Austin, and my younger brother and sisters. It was the year 2000, if my memory serves me. But that experience was sublime, I can say, in retrospect. Reflecting on it is so joyous and nostalgic for me. Of course I’d love to go back to that very moment now if I could, knowing what I know of course. But that was it for me. That was one of those formative, amazing, musical discoveries - the first one. It was my first formal introduction to real music I think. Just thought I’d share that.
until then...
Saturday | May 7, 2011 | 11:30 AM
For anyone still unaware...
There’s a massacre going on in Libya right now. They’re tricking, then shooting protesters and raping women. Pray for them.
Today a 6.3 earthquake hit Christchurch, New Zealand. Lives have been lost and the damage is extensive.
More than
5080 killings in Ciudad Juarez - Mexico, over 3 daysBahrain’s army deliberately kills peaceful protesters (thanks to juansie.tumblr for informing)
Egypt and Tunisia have both set up field hospitals on their Libyan borders
Please reblog.
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“A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch.”
—Jodi Picoult | submitted by: imfeelingmorethanalive (via quote-book)
“But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.”
—Luke 12: 7 (KJV)
“The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.”
—Romans 13:9-10 (New International Version)
“A relationship with no trust is like a car with no gasoline. U can stay in it all you want but it won’t go anywhere”
—(via nicoleintheclouds)
“Self-esteem, like walking a tightrope, is a tricky thing. If you fall off one side, you land in arrogance, alienating people and heedlessly crushing those around you. Fall off the other side, and you find yourself in the lowlands of self-worth, unable to move confidently through life and letting others take advantage of you…
Jesus gave up His place in heaven, took on our form, and died in order for us to be with God in heaven for eternity. Can there be any greater demonstration of the esteem God feels for each child He has created?
God has done everything possible and imaginable to show us the value He places on each of us. And that is the full measure of our self-esteem and value. When we fully internalize that truth and begin to draw from God’s well of worth, the slack rope of self-esteem will become a highway of hope.” —CQ Bible Study, 2011, Q1, February 19th (via fattiesoslim)
Jesus gave up His place in heaven, took on our form, and died in order for us to be with God in heaven for eternity. Can there be any greater demonstration of the esteem God feels for each child He has created?
God has done everything possible and imaginable to show us the value He places on each of us. And that is the full measure of our self-esteem and value. When we fully internalize that truth and begin to draw from God’s well of worth, the slack rope of self-esteem will become a highway of hope.” —CQ Bible Study, 2011, Q1, February 19th (via fattiesoslim)
“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
—William Wordsworth (via bookoasis)
“True benevolence, or munificence, knows no reciprocity. Furthermore, it is not thereby motivated or expecting of it.”
—Me
“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived; and if faced with courage, need not be lived again. Lift up your eyes upon the day breaking for you. Give birth again to the dream.”
—Dr. Maya Angelou
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.”
—1 Corinthians 13:4-8 (via fattiesoslim)
Exercise for Life
This life is just a constant training session. The hoops you must jump through to get where you wanna be is aerobic exercise. The opposition you face is just resistance training. And the constant bending over backwards is just a test of your flexibility and ability to bounce back. Are you in shape?
Love is.
“True love is not just romance. True love is partnership. True love is friendship. True love is never created in vain, by force or by accident. True love is pure & sincere. True love waits, because true love exists without time and space. True love is gifted energy, a catalyst for light and wisdom. True love is strength, and true love is freedom.”
—Juno Cristi (via junoinlove)
“My story ain’t the only one I’m tryna tell”
—J. Cole (via isamiahmed)
“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (via bookoasis)
Reblog if you Love God. (:
“Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself.”
—Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
“The move from the womb to the tomb is quick one. The question is what kind of human being are you going to be in the meantime.”
—Dr. Cornel West
“Rain or shine it’s only a state of mind.”
—(via robertaradiance)
Perspective
- it’s the lifeblood of uniquity.
"Trials exist not because God wants to test you. That's a lie. He already knows your capabilities, more than you could imagine. Trials exist because you need to learn one thing: FAITH."
The definition of love is:
A mother, seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.
