Published April 20, 2009 by

Call to the birds

{I’m back, by the way – photos to come}

While I was at Soul Survivor, my lovely friend Cat ran a creative writing workshop. One exercise she took us through was writing without stopping for a set period of time (2mins) – no real thinking. I have since added punctuation but the text remains the same:

Whatever is the matter when alphabets fly off the moon and cats walk around with cheese? And this sounds so ridiculous… But why do we waste so much time and waste so much breath, and hold so tight to what doesn’t matter? No one really cares about that or wants to jump into the duck pond; people help each other, they hold hands and skip and laugh and cry and they call to the birds and swap presents.

My brain is peculiar.

Camping Life Words

Published February 26, 2009 by

Words

If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent
If the unheard, unspoken
Word is unspoken, unheard;
Still is the unspoken word, the Word unheard,
The Word without a word, the Word within
The world and for the world;
And the light shone in darkness and
Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled
About the centre of the silent Word.

O my people, what have I done unto thee.

Where shall the word be found, where will the word
Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence
Not on the sea or on the islands, not
On the mainland, in the desert or the rain land,
For those who walk in darkness
Both in the day time and in the night time
The right time and the right place are not here
No place of grace for those who avoid the face
No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the voice…

T.S. Eliot

Nabbed from Maggi Dawn, because it’s far to good and must be shared further.

Christianity Words

poem T.S.Elliot word world

Published January 9, 2009 by

Daily Routines & Quirky Words

rainerThis blog covers daily routines… of famous (and perhaps not so famous people). Very interesting and just a little random.

Daily Routines

I love quirky writings. About a month ago I bought: Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke (Who is a guy btw). It is splendid. I will share some next time I get to reading it.

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Culture Life Personality Words

Published December 13, 2008 by

More peace

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world.

– Etty Hillesum,
died in Auschwitz in 1943 at the age of 29. From An Interrupted Life, a compilation of her diaries and letters.

(from Sojourners Verse & Voice)

Social Justice Words

peace quote

Published November 30, 2008 by

Sometimes quiet

Isaiah 60:1-3
“Arise, shine, for your light has come,
and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.
See, darkness covers the earth
and thick darkness is over the peoples,
but the LORD rises upon you
and his glory appears over you.
Nations will come to your light,
and kings to the brightness of your dawn.

Words