explore-blog:
The Fixer’s Manifesto. Complement with 5 manifestos for the creative life.
Most of us want too many things. These things are not bad in themselves, but they are too much and they weigh us down. The secret to life, to happiness and order is to want one thing, and that then to allow that one thing to order everything else. — Msgr. Charles Pope (via fathershane)
I was like: I’ve only heard one person play the mandolin like that - Chris Thile. Sure enough, seems like he’s teamed up with a crew of super talented musician under the banner of Punch Brothers to make some awesome, toe-tapping music. Tracing down these musical paths promises to provide hours of enjoyment. :)
(via sds, via hilker)
…[T]ime affluence is a better predictor of well-being than material affluence. — Tal Ben Shahar, from No Time for Happiness
This looks like it could come in handy - moldable silicon which sets at room temperature…hmmm, the possibilities… :) Sugru.
(via swissmiss, via projectsugru)
Come on snow, come on snow!… :)
(via sds, via clubmonaco, Photo by Lee Rentz. -Wit & Delight
catholicsoul:
An open mind is really a mark of foolishness, like an open mouth. Mouths and minds were made to shut; they were made to open only in order to shut. In direct connection with this question of mythology and human belief the point may roughly be put thus: An extraordinary idea has arisen that the best critic of religious institutions is the man who talks coldly about religion. Nobody supposes that the best critic of music is the man who talks coldly about music. Within reasonable bounds, the more excited the musician is about music, the more he is likely to be right about it. Nobody thinks a man a correct judge of poetry because he looks down on poems. But there is an idea that a man is a correct judge of religion because he looks down on religions. Now, folklore and primitive faiths, and all such things are of the nature of music and poetry in this respect — that the actual language and symbols they employ require not only an understanding, they require what the Bible very finely calls an understanding heart. You must be a little moved in your emotions even to understand them at all; you must have a heart in order to make head or tail of them. Consequently, whenever I hear on these occasions that beliefs are being discussed scientifically and calmly, I know that they are being discussed wrong. Even a false religion is too genuine a thing to be discussed calmly. G.K. CHESTERTON
If all the world were Christian, it might not matter if all the world were uneducated. But, as it is, a cultural life will exist outside the Church whether it exists inside or not. To be ignorant and simple now — not to be able to meet the enemies on their own ground — would be to throw down our weapons, and the betray our uneducated brethren who have, under God, no defense but us against the intellectual attacks of the heathen. Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered. The cool intellect must work not only against cool intellect on the other side, but against the muddy heathen mysticisms which deny intellect altogether. Most of all, perhaps we need intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has any magic about it, but because we cannot study the future, and yet need something to set against the present, to remind us that the basic assumptions have been quite different in different periods and that much which seems certain to the uneducated is merely temporary fashion. A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village: the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age. — C. S. Lewis, from “Learning in War-Time,” a sermon preached in the University Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford, in 1939 (via ayjay)
Three steps to yumminess. :)
Um…so…wow…the call of the wild.
sds:
theimmovabilityoftruth:
About as good as you can get without actually being at Yosemite.
This is worship.