dick from africa

• 2012-05-19

  Marta’s daughter, Tessa, went to her last high school prom tonight with her friend, Dylan. I got to provide the ambient lighting.

• 2012-05-13

  Sayings of the San - 8

  Kiume ina matumizi. Kike una lengo.
  The male has a use. The female has a purpose.

• 2012-05-12

  

  nevver:

  ‘Nam was a motherfucker

  Source: nevver

• 2012-05-05

  fifty-four

  may 5 nineteen hundred and 67

  I had followed Licious to Madison
  where she shared a room with Big Kenny,
  bowls of bud, books of bombs.

  cinco de mayo -
  the day Big Kenny died
  coughing up foam
  his face as red as the flag
  that hung in the window
  that we could never close

  power to the people

• 2012-05-04

  fifty-three

  The world is filled with pain and sorrow but I have found a serenity that you can find too.

  - Buddha

• 2012-05-03

  fifty-two

  What he actually said was that life is blissful - joy is everywhere - only we’re closed off to it. His teachings were actually about opening up the joyful and blissful nature of reality but that the bliss and the joy are in the transitory.

  Do you see this glass? I love this glass. It holds the water admirably. When I tap it, it has a lovely ring. When the sun shines on it, it reflects the light beautifully. But when the wind blows and the glass falls off of the shelf and breaks, I say, “Of course.” Every minute with the glass has been precious.

  - Mark Epstein

• 2012-05-02

  fifty-one

  No matter what your circumstances you will end up losing everything you love. You will end up aging. You will end up ill. You will die. And the problem is that we need to figure out how to make that all be alright.

  - Jane Hirshfield

• →

  We [Black theologians] want to know who Jesus was because we believe that that is the only way to assess who he is. […] Without some continuity between the historical Jesus and the kerygmatic Christ, the Christian gospel becomes nothing but the subjective reflections of the early Christian community.

  — James Cone (via azspot)

  (via azspot)

  Source: politicaljesus.com

• 2012-05-01

  fifty

  1. Me: I'm going to put these chicken scraps into the dogs's bowls.
  2. Marta: Should I wake them up and show them?
  3. Me: No, no need. They will discover it on their own eventually.
  4. Marta: Why would you do that? Don't you realize that's how religions get started?

• 2012-04-30

  forty-nine

  Everybody understands suffering. It’s something that we all share with everybody else. It is at once utterly intimate and utterly shared.

  - W.S. Merwin