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How To Wrap A Cat For Christmas.
This never gets old.
“Suddenly I become filled with a consuming impatience to be gone.” - Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
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“You come home, make some tea, sit down in your armchair and all around there’s silence. Everyone decides for themselves whether that’s loneliness or freedom.”
— Unknown
“When feeling overwhelmed by a faraway goal, repeat the following: I have it within me right now to get me to where I want to be later.”
— Karen Salmansohn (via purplebuddhaquotes)
Notre-Dame this morning
Photos via @patrimoinereligieuxfr & @afpphoto
e a volte siamo fiamma e cenere
et parfois nous sommes flammes et cendres
and sometimes we are flame and ash
You know, I don’t talk about my faith that often on this site, but I’m going to today because it’s warranted.
I’m Catholic, one of many. And today, our hearts were broken as we watched the Notre Dame cathedral burn. We’re in a state of mourning.
To us, a church is more than a place of worship. It’s a gathering spot for the community. It’s a place where we collect donations for the poor. It’s a place where we serve food to the hungry. It’s a place of refuge for the homeless. It’s a place where we come to pray, to celebrate, to be happy. It’s a place where people make pilgrimages every year. Notre Dame stands for all these things and more, for not only is it a church - it’s a part of our Catholic history. It’s French history. It’s world history. It’s a beacon of Western architectural design and art. The amount of loss today is monumental, and it hurts.
But in all the destruction and through all the tears, there are also reasons for hope and joy.
For one, nobody was killed. One firefighter was injured (bless them), but nobody was lost, thank God. Objects can be replaced and rebuilt, people can’t be.
Second, all the holy relics and artworks were saved. Some of them, from what I read on Twitter, are normally displayed in the spire but were moved to another location because of the renovations that were going on, and from this location were able to be rescued from the fire. Thank goodness.
Third, it’s not a total loss! Hooray! The bell towers are still intact, the tabernacle and altar are untouched, and it’s currently believed that the cathedral can be rebuilt.
Fourth, it is absolutely beautiful to see people coming together over this. All day today, I’ve seen people of all faiths (and no faith as well) grieve with us Catholics and send condolences, and it restores my faith in the goodness of people. It reminds me that people are as resilient as the stones upon which Notre Dame was built on.
Notre Dame still stands. Her eyes have gazed upon France as it has changed and grown and suffered throughout the past 850 years. The 100 Years’ War, the Age of Discovery, the French Revolution. The crowning of Napoleon I. Two World Wars. She’s taken damages from bombs in the past. She was almost considered unsalvagable once (Victor Hugo’s Hunchback of Notre Dame was instrumental in turning public favor into preserving the cathedral in the 1800s). But despite it all, the bell towers still stand. She still stands. And she will be rebuilt.
This week for Catholics is Holy Week, and one of the themes we observe throughout it is death and resurrection. That despite what happens, we can always rise back up. And that is what we Catholics will do. We will mourn the history we lost, but then we will heal and rebuild even stronger than before.
My prayers out to all my fellow Catholic brothers and sisters (and siblings) and to all the people of France. And to everyone who’s been respectful of our grief (and that’s been so many!), thank you so, so much.
Her beauty, transcendent... Grieving with a heavy heart for the devastating destruction. She will rise again.
Devastated. 💔 Our Lady will rise again in all her glory; my memories of days spent in the shadow of her beauty next to the Seine will always remain in my heart.
Margaret Atwood, ‘A Sunday Drive’
“When this is all over, I told myself, you will hate yourself for wasting so much time…”
— Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion (via quotespile)
So much snow this season ... 317 inches and counting.
Today’s snow trees
“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Diary (via quotespile)