Monthly:July 2023
Photos I’ve taken during the Foo Fighters Boston Calling Concert, May, 2023. Click on an image to see it’s larger size.
Some things are more precious because they don’t last long. Oscar Wilde, “The Portrait of Dorian Grey”
No matter how careful you are, there’s going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn’t experience it all. There’s that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should’ve been paying attention.. “Invisible Monsters”, Chuck Palahniuk
The first Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center circa 1931. The workers pooled their money to buy the tree with the hope of raising Christmas cheer on the construction site. They decorated it with homemade decorations. A little bit of Christmas cheer that cascaded and grew through time. Kinda neat.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token “The Raven”, Edgar Allan Poe
Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, “Do it again”; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, “Do it again” to the sun; and every evening, “Do it again” to […]
When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole through them. Picking out all the little details and imperfections you’d never stare long enough to notice if they’d even just return your gaze. You realize that they can only hold a smile for so long, after that it’s just teeth. Sometimes it’s fangs.
“The character of Jesus has not only been the highest pattern of virtue, but the strongest incentive in its practice, and has exerted so deep an influence that it may be truly said that the simple record of three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and to soften mankind than all the dispositions of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists.” W.E.H. Leckey
For several decades we psychologists looked upon the whole matter of sin and moral accountability as a great incubus and acclaimed our liberation from it as epoch making. But at length we have discovered that to be free in this sense, that is, to have the excuse of being sick rather than sinful, is to court the danger of also becoming lost…In becoming amoral, ethically neutral and free, we have cut the very roots of our being, lost our deepest […]
I walked a mile with Pleasure;She chatted all the way;But left me none the wiserFor all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow;And ne’er a word said she;But, oh! The things I learned from her,When Sorrow walked with me. Robert Browning Hamilton
