“There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored. The reader of today looks for this motion, and rightly so, but what he has forgotten is the cost of it. His sense of evil is diluted or lacking altogether, and so he has forgotten the price of restoration. When he reads a novel, he wants either his sense tormented or his spirits raised. He wants to be transported, instantly, either to mock damnation or a mock innocence.” - Flannery O’Connor”
[video]
Making this.
I’m with you, Brynne. I’ll be making this as well.
The main reason she wants to go to Kibera is seeing God move and work across the world.
“I’m not doing this just to show people the positive influence Reagan students can have, but I also think this will be a life changing experience for me.”
Araesheon admits that before she knew God, she…
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It’s everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so-I don’t know, not wrong, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and-sad making. And the worst part is if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you’re conforming just as much as everyone else, only in a different way.
She stopped.
I’m sick of it. I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I’m sick of myself and everyone else that wants to make some kind of splash.
” — Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger (via katiekrongard)
Russ & I went to okGO’s show last night in Austin. Hands down, it was one of the best shows we’ve been to in the past. Seriously - if you have the chance, go see these guys! Here are some pictures.
His guitar lights up - and has LASERS.
This Too Shall Pass
![CONFETTI!!! [my favorite part of the show]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l2q4dotOUm1qzwivto1_400.png)
CONFETTI!!! [my favorite part of the show]
Totally appealed to my inner 5th grader. Oh handbells, it’s been far too long.
