Now here's an Old Testament quote I can really get behind!

Ecclesiastes 4:9

Two are better than one: they get a good wage for their labor. If the one falls, the other will lift up his companion. Woe to the solitary man! For if he should fall, he has no one to lift him up. So also, if two sleep together, they keep each other warm. How can one ( Read more... )

willshetterly, in this post, makes clear a thing that I have long been trying to articulate to my self:

People who exclude are terrified that they will be excluded, and so they fear that Obama will favor "his people." What excluders don't understand is that includers will even include them.

Word.

Happy Autumn Equinox (a few hours early, I know) -- may the season bring in good harvests and cooler weather!

From sartorias: I have a Spectator article that in 1711 points out the lamentable publick taste for highwaymen and other low ruffians as heroes....

People have been people for a very long time.

The whole conversation is quite interesting ( Read more... )

Stories matter. They explain, illuminate, process, etc.

Sometimes one line in a tale can make one point and go "Oh! Yes! Exactly that!"

sam_storyteller does that in this lovely story with this passage:

"No," he said simply. "There are books we keep, books that we read but handle with care because they are...physical objects in which we keep history. And ( Read more... )

From The Fourth Wall by amberite:
The house was tiny, the reconverted corner of a warehouse, studded with fifty seats, filled with drapes that were once scraps from the fabric store and costumes that were once drapes.Somehow, this morning (just), that says it all ( Read more... )

"The consciousness of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow."

-- a young lady quoted by Mr. Emerson in the "St. Augustine Tatler" of March 3, 1900.

Snaffled from staffordcastle

I think that Amanda and unovis_lj's Hans would wholly agree ( Read more... )

By way of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Anacreon_in_HeavenRead more... )

From the SF Chronicle, Wed 4 Dec 2002 ( Read more... )

Sent to me by a friend, not fully attributed, but far too good to pass up:

Blessing:

May the Light always find you on a dreary day,
When you need to be home, may you find a way,
May you always have courage to take a chance,
And never find frogs in your underpants.