Tumblr (3.0; @squeamish)http://onlygood.org/<p><b>“Every story worth knowing is a life story.”</b> — <a href="http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9780374529215-1" target="_blank">Paul Elie</a></p>http://onlygood.org/post/785056252http://onlygood.org/post/785056252Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:31:06 -0400<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4zhpc93E01qz8055o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.lemanski.co.uk/archives.html" target="_blank">Mike Lemanski</a>.</p>http://onlygood.org/post/765474743http://onlygood.org/post/765474743Sat, 03 Jul 2010 09:34:24 -0400<p>“Wisdom in literature is the ability to convey not a system of truths which explain life but a certain depth of awareness in which life itself is lived more intensely and with a more meaningful direction.” - Thomas Merton</p>http://onlygood.org/post/714692628http://onlygood.org/post/714692628Sat, 19 Jun 2010 07:34:36 -0400<p><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4068/4694014511_03acb035f4.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt=""/><br/><br/><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1289/4694014621_15c42fd50d.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt=""/><br/><br/><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1301/4694014715_4104a49b86.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt=""/><br/><br/><a href="http://www.mileendbrooklyn.com/" target="_blank">Mile End</a>.</p>http://onlygood.org/post/691844026http://onlygood.org/post/691844026Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:11:00 -0400<p>This was a day when I did nothing,<br/> aside from reading the newspaper,<br/> taking both breakfast and lunch by myself<br/> in the kitchen, dozing after lunch<br/> until the middle of the afternoon. Then<br/> I read one poem by Zbigniew Herbert<br/> in which he thanked God for the many beautiful<br/> things in this world, in a voice so absurdly<br/> truthful, the entire wrecked day was redeemed.<br/> — <a href="http://poems.com/about_poems/uses.php" target="_blank">Harvey Shapiro</a></p>http://onlygood.org/post/661557276http://onlygood.org/post/661557276Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:41:30 -0400<object width="400" height="326"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4SHcJPMvmzU&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4SHcJPMvmzU&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="326" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Cornel West on style: “…it’s that critical intelligence, that spirituality, and that deep sense of connecting with others.” <br/><br/> PS Cornel West was born in Tulsa.</p>http://onlygood.org/post/639109368http://onlygood.org/post/639109368Thu, 27 May 2010 20:52:36 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l2kbfja8B81qz8055o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>May 16th, 2010.</p>http://onlygood.org/post/606722069http://onlygood.org/post/606722069Mon, 17 May 2010 07:47:43 -0400<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l15eip5LGi1qz8055o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>April 19, 2010. (Pies n Thighs: holy shit. <a href="http://piesnthighs.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">So good</a>.)</p>http://onlygood.org/post/534395389http://onlygood.org/post/534395389Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:56:00 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0oakdiaj21qz8055o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>April 10, 2010.</p>http://onlygood.org/post/511112444http://onlygood.org/post/511112444Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:11:59 -0400<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0jbseWChq1qz8055o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>April 7th, 2010.</p>http://onlygood.org/post/504549347http://onlygood.org/post/504549347Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:50:38 -0400<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0fe6lT2XU1qz8055o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>April 5th, 2010.</p>http://onlygood.org/post/499155120http://onlygood.org/post/499155120Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:51:52 -0400<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0d8jnWpAM1qz8055o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>April 4th, 2010.</p>http://onlygood.org/post/496226128http://onlygood.org/post/496226128Sun, 04 Apr 2010 14:54:44 -0400<p>“As for the majority of citizens, are they not like the crowd that gathered on Calvary, not to cheer a miscarriage of justice, but also not to protest it? <b>Failing to realize that compassion without confrontation is hopelessly sentimental, the people go home beating their breasts, preferring guilt to responsibility.</b>” — William Sloane Coffin’s Easter Sermon at Riverside Church, April 3rd, 1983. <br/><br/> Happy Easter.</p>http://onlygood.org/post/495607356http://onlygood.org/post/495607356Sun, 04 Apr 2010 08:52:26 -0400<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0c0rfrEaS1qz8055o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>April 3rd, 2010.</p>http://onlygood.org/post/494703702http://onlygood.org/post/494703702Sat, 03 Apr 2010 23:09:11 -0400<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l08zok6iSu1qz8055o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>April 2nd, 2010.</p>http://onlygood.org/post/491069401http://onlygood.org/post/491069401Fri, 02 Apr 2010 07:53:02 -0400<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l06482RzxU1qz8055o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>March 31, 2010.</p>http://onlygood.org/post/487559783http://onlygood.org/post/487559783Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:38:26 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l02ngy271a1qz8055o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Ring the bells that still can ring<br/> Forget your perfect offering<br/> There is a crack, a crack in everything<br/> That’s how the light gets in. <br/> — Leonard Cohen, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e39UmEnqY8" target="_blank">Anthem</a></p>http://onlygood.org/post/483027890http://onlygood.org/post/483027890Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:43:46 -0400<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kzrgjussqY1qz8055o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.” — Simone Weil</p>http://onlygood.org/post/469046952http://onlygood.org/post/469046952Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:40:42 -0400<p><b>The Fourth Thing I’m Thankful For</b>—and I do still have ten—<b>The Weekend</b>: <br/><br/><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2731/4451619661_18832dd860.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="IMG_0104"/><br/><br/><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4063/4451619455_4e16d0eb1a.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="IMG_0095"/><br/><br/><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2780/4451619277_c153811f7e.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="IMG_0085"/><br/><br/><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4014/4451619101_421d16df57.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="IMG_0084"/><br/><br/><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4053/4452391626_01f6ff0085.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="IMG_0045"/><br/><br/><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2780/4451618743_188f605258.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="IMG_0063"/><br/><br/><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4046/4451618949_9cf56c6684.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="IMG_0068"/><br/><br/><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4019/4452393318_7e18ae5716.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="IMG_0101"/><br/><br/> I know I won’t always have weekends like these—the kind where there’s nothing but time. So yeah I’m thankful for the leisure. But even more than that: I’m thankful for the ability and the security and the community that make wandering, endless, friend- and food-filled weekends possible.</p>http://onlygood.org/post/464224815http://onlygood.org/post/464224815Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:57:06 -0400<object width="400" height="325"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DoBMdTsula8&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/DoBMdTsula8&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="325" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>“Violence is what happens any time we violate the integrity of the other.”</p>http://onlygood.org/post/389622683http://onlygood.org/post/389622683Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:26:38 -0500