Praise for a Way of Seeing

An enthusiastic plug for the most centered guy I know.

And such a stylish template!  Must be an artist thing…

Food for Thought

“We’ve all heard that story about the coach who told each of his players to go out to the woods and bring him back a twig.  When they did, the coach took the twigs and broke one of them to show the players that individually they were weak and could be broken.  Then he bound all the twigs together and showed that he could not break them when they were bound.  This illustrated to the players that if they stuck together as a team, they were strong and no one could break them.  What they forget to tell you is that later that night, as he slept in his bed, that coach was eaten by zombies.”

–The Zen of Zombie:  Better Living Through the Undead, Scott Kenemore

Happy New Year

“‘You should see her, indeed you should, sir.  I am only a hobbit…  and I’m not much good at poetry-  not at making it:…  so I can’t tell you what I mean….  But I wish I could make a song about her.  Beautiful she is, sir!  Lovely!  Sometimes like a great tree in flower, sometimes like a white daffadowndilly, small and slender like.  Hard as di’monds, soft as moonlight.  Warm as sunlight, cold as frost in the stars.  Proud and far-off as a snow-mountain, and as merry as any lass I ever saw with daisies in her hair in springtime.  But that’s a lot o’ nonsense, and all wide of my mark.’

‘Then she must be lovely indeed,’ said Faramir.  ‘Perilously fair.’

‘I don’t know about perilous,’ said Sam….  ‘But perhaps you could call her perilous, because she’s so strong in herself.  You, you could dash yourself to pieces on her, like a ship on a rock;  or drownd yourself, like a hobbit in a river.  But neither rock nor river would be to blame.'”

Samwise describing Galadriel to Faramir, The Two Towers (J.R.R. Tolkien)