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"Disability [10w] Unconditional love can turn a child's disability into an advantage."

"Iowa Haiku "We're not really dull,we are just misunderstood.Weed helps dull the pain."

"And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not."

"I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too."

"Jesus [10w] "Sorry to keep you hanging,but it's just our nature."

"Figure out your passion. What floats your boat, rings your bell, lights your tree? A life without passion is possible, but not desirable. Have you really lived at all if you have not lived with passion? Without it would a masterpiece be possible? I don’t think so. With purpose, cause and passion, there is no way the end you envision will not become the reality you live."

"Pussy Whipped I was pussy whipped with four lashes.It was a helluva threesome ~but I still can't get the damn mascara off my one-eyed snake."

"The Flood that Did Not Subside [10w] What would today's world be,If Noah's dove flew into obscurity?"

"It is more substantial to represent a purpose, rather than just a title."

"I have come to see clearly that life is more than self. It is more than doing what I want, striving for what will benefit me, dreaming of all I can be. Life is all about my relationship with God. There is no higher calling, no loftier dream, and no greater goal than to live, breathe, and be poured out for Jesus Christ."--Jamie in Brother Andrew's "The Calling"

"The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history... It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science."

"Now listen for your song. Everybody’s got a song. When I used to chase the Trane— John Coltrane that is— he used to tell me, ‘If I know a man’s sound, I know the man.’ Do you hear the melody playing in your mind? Does it move you, nudge you off your seat?"

"Ruth Whither thou goest, I will go ~as long as it's to the mall.I heard Dillard's is having an 80% off sale!"

"You life matters. You are here for a reason. Your job is to determine why."

"Revel in the Unraveling Being authentic is lifting the maskon who you think you should be seen as,and becoming at ease with your bare ass vulnerability.Revel in the unraveling,take courage in sharing your imperfections,and you'llincrease your loveexponentially."

"If you hang out with chickens, you're going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you're going to fly."

"Russian, Umerzhurnalistka Someone who too many questions for his own good. Literally, 'Dead journalist'."

"Part of him wanted to weep... but his purpose was rigid within him. He felt he could not bend to gentleness without breaking."

"Pushkin When Pushkin came to Shovekin all hell broke loose."

"Till Death Do You Part [10w] Marriage will indeed change people ~for better or for worse."