collection

Magpie-like, picking up what glitters. (In the glare of your mind, be modest./ And beholden to what is tactile, and thrilling.)

Surprised over and over by the beauty of the world, I want to show everything to everyone.

I hope I can bring my family here.

Money seems to be at the root of so many of my worries (where will I live, how will I afford it, what am I going to do for a job, I wish I could just buy pretty things when I wanted them).

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Leonardo Boff:

It is not a "one" that is primary but the "three". The three comes first. Then, because of the intimate relationship between the "three" comes the "one" as expressing the unity of the three. Believing in the Trinity means that at the root of everything that exists and subsists there is movement; there is an eternal process of life, of outward movement, of love....that truth is on the side of communion rather than exclusion; consensus translates truth better than imposition; the participation of many is better than the dictate of a single one.

Believing in the Trinity means accepting that everything is related to everything and so makes up one great whole, and that unity comes from a thousand convergences rather than from one factor alone. We never simply live, we always live together. Whatever favors shared life is good and worthwhile.

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Andrew Bird playing 'Souverian' live at the Orpheum Theater in LA:

The song 'K' by the Clientele (most of their music, actually). This is 'Saturday', another favorite:

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Norman Ackroyd's etchings. I would like to own something by Fiona Watson, someday. At the Royal Academy show I was too poor to buy a book with the titles and names, but I'm sure one of the paintings was hers. I made a sketch.

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I'm reading This Nest, Swift Passerine, by Dan Beachy-Quick, and it's alchemizing me. Along with the Juliana Spahr and Corrina A-Maying the Apocalypse. Trying harder, failing better.