Q: What’s it feel like to beat Cancer and, at the finish of Chemotherapy, look ahead to life?
A: See above.
"Persons attempting to find a “text” in this book will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a “subtext” will be banished; persons attempting to explain, interpret, explicate, analyze, deconstruct or otherwise “understand” it will be exiled to a desert island in the company of only other explainers."
Wendel Berry’s “Jayber Crow”
Ira Glass on marriage.
- Kurt Braunohler: I do have a theory now that if I do get married in the future, what I think I would want to do is have an agreement that, at the end of seven years, we have to get remarried in order for the marriage to continue. But at the end of seven years, it ends. And we can agree to get remarried or not get remarried.
- Ira Glass: Why?
- KB: Because then I think you get to choose. And I think it would make the relationship stronger.
- IG: ...I think actually one of the things that’s a comfort in marriage is that there isn’t a door at seven years, and so if something is messed up, in the short term, there’s a comfort of knowing, ‘well we made this commitment, so we’re just going to work this out. And even if tonight we’re not getting along, or there’s something between us that doesn’t feel right, you have the comfort of knowing, we’ve got time, we’re going to figure this out’. And that makes it so much easier. Because you do go through times where you hate eachother’s guts, and the no escape clause, weirdly, is a bigger comfort to being married than I ever would have thought before I got married.
*audrey assad*: Wish You Were Here.
When I picked a song to cover for this little project, the song just stuck out to me. It would have been a more obvious choice, perhaps, to have picked one of the old jazz standards that my voice and piano lend themselves so easily to…but I wanted to challenge myself and my artistry and my…
Excited to share this Take Away Show of “Burden” with you! A giant thank you to Matt Priestley for his work on this video.
One of the classes I’m taking right now to finish up school is called “Magic in the Middle Ages.” If you have any inquiries about gemstones, goat’s blood, or the Age of Aquarius, I’m your girl.
My book had a passage on magic within medieval romances that struck me. In many of these romances, the magic involved is presented as some sort of pre-established circumstance: an enchanted castle or an immovable sword, wanting some daring intervener to break the curse. You’re all familiar:
“In The Book of Lancelot of the Lake, the hero enters a wood and discovers a band of knights and damsels singing and dancing around a chair that bears a golden crown. As soon as he joins them he loses all memory and is trapped in the dance. When he sits on the chair and has the crown placed on his head, however, the enchantment is broken. He then learns how the dancers were enchanted, many years beforehand, and how they could not be released until the “best and handsomest knight in the world” sat on the chair and wore the crown.”
Someone pursues adventure into a very unknown realm against all odds and adversaries only to find that their very person was sufficient to break the enchantment.
Wow! Perspective only by risk, disenchantment only by heroic effort. I’ve so much to learn from that to break out of things I’m done waltzing with.
My roommates rule. This morning, they did a color run to benefit Banner Children’s Hospital and looked really good doing it.
Ok, friends…
…the new album is officially available for pre-order! It releases Feb. 14th. But you can pre-order now! :)
at iTunes: http://bit.ly/zW3hpc
and Amazon: http://amzn.to/zsQLPv
hey ya’ll, if you have a chance this week, you should take a look at my friend ike’s kickstarter! he’s working on a record and needs help to make it happen!
I need YOUR help to make my new record, please take the time to check this out http://t.co/8lTHHaTc
Burton Guster
