Ukranian Gymnasts Are Not Human

I love the commentator, who does not seem a bit phased or surprised.

Coziness in Discomfort

"Comfort blinds people to the goodness of God’s comfort. We don’t remember that being comfortable with God is so much more important." -Wisdom from my Megan

Russell Brand, Let's Be Friends

And then we can get pissed and start revolutions together. :)

Space Between the Logs

What makes a fire burn
is space between the logs
a breathing space.

~Judy Brown

A Love So Large

“Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away… and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast. Be happy about your growth, in which, of course, you can’t take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don’t torment them with your doubts and don’t frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn’t be able to comprehend.

Seek out some simple and true feeling of what you have in common with them, which doesn’t necessarily have to alter when you yourself change again and again; when you see them, love life in a form that is not your own and be indulgent toward those who are growing old, who are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.

And don’t expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.”

~ RMR, Letters to a Young Poet

Happy Bartolome Day!

Clicky

Slippery

I think there’s a difference between choosing suffering and suffering choosing you. The first is beautiful and transformative, the second has the potential to be, but is not always so. It takes someone doing the former to release someone from the bonds of the latter, turning unbearable suffering into a volatile vessel for healing. But places where choosers can get the tools they need to do their work are few and far between, so sometimes even the choosers turn into the chosen. 

Hope is elusive.

A-maze-ing

Corn maze.

Corn maize.

I am astounded at the sneaky creativity.