“The sin of respectable people reveals itself in flight from responsibility.”
~Unknown
Archive for the ‘Lit by Lightning’ Category
Descent
Posted in Lit by Lightning on August 11, 2009 | Comments Off
To Go East
Posted in Chrysalis, Lit by Lightning on July 14, 2009 | Comments Off
“Don’t let yesterday eat up too much of today.”
~Will Rogers
[Thanks, Richard.]
When We Are Thunder
Posted in Lit by Lightning on March 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »
“People are defeated or go mad or die in many, many ways, some in the silence of that valley, where I couldn’t hear nobody pray and many in the public, sounding horror where no cry or lament or song or hope can disentangle itself from the roar. And so we go under, victims of that [...]
Under The Clouds
Posted in Lit by Lightning on March 22, 2009 | 6 Comments »
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, [...]
Lost In The Desert
Posted in Lit by Lightning on March 19, 2009 | 8 Comments »
You remember when Jesus was about twelve years old, there was the custom of the feast. Jesus’s parents took him up to Jerusalem. That was an annual occasion, the feast of the Passover…And they left Jerusalem going on back to Nazareth…They discovered Jesus wasn’t with them.
Now, the real thing that is to be seen here [...]
Welcome to the Jungle
Posted in Lit by Lightning on March 8, 2009 | 12 Comments »
“If you grow up in the South Bronx or south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburg or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there’s no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream. The kids have eyes and they can see, and they have ears and [...]
The Naturalist
Posted in Lit by Lightning on March 1, 2009 | 3 Comments »
“The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.”
~Henry David Thoreau
Alone. In The Rain.
Posted in Lit by Lightning, Poetry on June 4, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Solitude
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has enough trouble of its own.
Sing, and the hills will answer;
Sigh, it is lost on the air;
The echoes bound to a joyful sound,
But shrink from voicing care.
Rejoice, and men will seek you;
Grieve, and [...]
Clear Horizons
Posted in Lit by Lightning, Poetry, tagged Grief on February 16, 2008 | 4 Comments »
A Ship’s Passage
by Anonymous
I stand at the seashore.
A ship at my side
spreads her white sails
to the morning breeze
and starts
for the blue ocean.
She is an object of beauty
and strength
and I stand
and watch her
until at length
she hangs like a speck
of white cloud
just where
the sea and sky
come down to mingle
with each other.
Then someone
at my side says,
“There! She is [...]
Where The Wind Hits Heavy
Posted in Lit by Lightning, Poetry, tagged Grief on February 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The AfterLoss Credo
by Barbara Hills LesStrang
I need to talk about my loss.
I may often need to tell you what happened –
Or to ask you why it happened.
Each time I discuss my loss, I am helping myself
Face the reality of the death of my loved one.
I need to know that you care about me.
I need to [...]
Caught In A Storm
Posted in Lit by Lightning, tagged Grief on February 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
“In a society when is much more inclined to help you hide your pain rather than to grow through it, it is necessary to make a conscious effort to mourn.”
~In Memoriam
by Henri Nouwen
“God does not waste on ounce of our pain or a drop of our tears; suffering doesn’t come our way [...]
In Winter
Posted in Lit by Lightning on February 13, 2008 | 5 Comments »
“Always be aware that this time is all you have. Once a minute is gone, there is no way to get it back, no matter how much apologizing or atoning you do. There will come a time when one of you will lay down for the last time. Only then will you wish you had [...]
