Old scans that I never got around to uploading. The first one is a picture my brother took of my to finish off a roll of film that accidentally got double-exposed…we were stoked to see how it turned out!
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I miss the way Seattle smells this time of year. To not have your sense of smell in that city would be an absolute shame.
Photo: Maddie Jacks
I actually attack the concept of happiness. I don’t mind people being happy - but the idea that everything we do is part of the pursuit of happiness seems to me a really dangerous idea and has led to a contemporary disease in Western society, which is fear of sadness. It’s a really odd thing that we’re now seeing people saying ‘write down 3 things that made you happy today before you go to sleep’, and ‘cheer up’ and ‘happiness is our birthright’ and so on. We’re kind of teaching our kids that happiness is the default position - it’s rubbish. Wholeness is what we ought to be striving for and part of that is sadness, disappointment, frustration, failure; all of those things which make us who we are. Happiness and victory and fulfillment are nice little things that also happen to us, but they don’t teach us much. Everyone says we grow through pain and then as soon as they experience pain they say ‘Quick! Move on! Cheer up!’ I’d like just for a year to have a moratorium on the word ‘happiness’ and to replace it with the word ‘wholeness’. Ask yourself ‘is this contributing to my wholeness?’ and if you’re having a bad day, it is.
— Hugh Mackay, psychologist and social researcher (via btsubtsu)
The world is beautiful not just because it hauntingly reminds us of our creator but also because it is pointing forward: it is designed to be filled, flooded, drenched in God, as a chalice is beautiful not least because of what we know it is designed to contain or as a violin is beautiful not least because we know the music of which it is capable.
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N.T. Wright
[some friends and I talked a lot during this past week about the relevance of the Christian hope right now - today - in our human lives, and about the power we are able to tap into through the Holy Spirit. I read this quote in Wright’s Surprised by Hope and just love how it articulates our reason for joy. As Wright says, all of creation is waiting on tiptoe for its completion. This earth is gorgeous now in many ways, but to think how it will appear when it is healed fully is a happy, happy thought.]
(via ajbattles)
…I needed to hear this today. Thanks AJB :)
Friday adventure part I- who knew a succulent lovers’ dream has been just short walk away this whole time?
A rainy evening drive, houses lit upon the hill at dusk, a night-time panorama of the city while Radiohead performed somewhere below us.
Posted April 16, 2012 at 5:04pm
