Reflejos

Reflejos: "We sit by and watch the Barbarian, we tolerate him; in the long stretches of peace we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence, his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creeds refreshes us; we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond: and on these faces there is no smile."

—

Hilaire Belloc, The Barbarians

Side-Lines: February 2012 Archives

Side-Lines: February 2012 Archives
"It is now time for Western Christians and non-Christians alike ..."

to acknowledge that men such as Alexis de Tocqueville were correct

and various concepts such as free expression, freedom of association, and other hallowed concepts of Western civilization simply do not translate outside of Western Christian culture. What was once theoretical is now empirical thanks to more than sixty years of evidence that strongly suggests that human liberty is simply not compatible with non-Christian, non-Western culture. -- Vox Popoli: The chickens begin to roost

Girl loses - and finds - the horse she loved - US news - Life - msnbc.com

Girl loses - and finds - the horse she loved - US news - Life - msnbc.com

Megan's horse "Burma"

Journal of a Nobody

Journal of a Nobody

C S Lewis dedication of book to granddaughter.

The Wedding Vows @ AMERICAN DIGEST

The Wedding Vows @ AMERICAN DIGEST

Mme Scherzo

Mme Scherzo:

" Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size.

Virginia Woolf,

Sore-Throated Sonnets of Regurgitated Reasoning | Whenever Richard Cory went down town, We people on...

Sore-Throated Sonnets of Regurgitated Reasoning | Whenever Richard Cory went down town, We people on...:

Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favored, and imperially slim.

And he was always quietly arrayed,
And he was always human when he talked;
But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
“Good-morning,” and he glittered when he walked.

And he was rich – yes, richer than a king –
And admirably schooled in every grace:
In fine, we thought that he was everything
To make us wish that we were in his place.

So on we worked, and waited for the light,
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head.

-by Edwin Arlington Robinson

A Bunch of Tutorials - Sought After, the City No Longer Deserted

A Bunch of Tutorials - Sought After, the City No Longer Deserted

drawing

Inspirational Adversity Quotes, Sayings about Problems and Hardship

Inspirational Adversity Quotes, Sayings about Problems and Hardship:

My strength is made perfect in weakness. ~II Corinthians

Strength quotes

Strength quotes:

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”

Strength quotes

Strength quotes:

“Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.”

William Black on Financial Fraud | EconTalk | Library of Economics and Liberty

William Black on Financial Fraud | EconTalk | Library of Economics and Liberty

Really important report on banking fraud

Lip service - ArchiveEurope - Travel

Lip service - ArchiveEurope - Travel

Kissing, kisses

2.Yesterday - Toru Takemitsu - YouTube

2.Yesterday - Toru Takemitsu - YouTube

CLICK

All Things America

All Things America

Light Is More Important Than The Lantern - Poem by Nizar Qabbani

Light Is More Important Than The Lantern - Poem by Nizar Qabbani:

Light Is More Important Than The Lantern by Nizar Qabbani

Light is more important than the lantern,
The poem more important than the notebook,
And the kiss more important than the lips.
My letters to you
Are greater and more important than both of us.
The are the only documents
Where people will discover
Your beauty
And my madness.

Reflejos

Reflejos: Ernest Tubb & His Texas Troubadours:

Waltz Across Texas, 1965

http://myjambox.tumblr.com/post/12803478447/ernest-tubb-waltz-across-texas

Reflejos

Reflejos: "Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health."

— Julia Child

On Healing Wings

On Healing Wings: "For He has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; Nor has He hidden His face from Him; But when He cried to Him, He heard."

—Psalm 22:24

On Healing Wings

On Healing Wings:


" Men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity, for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success."

—John Calvin