Stephen Murphy

48, husband of Mercedes Jones Murphy and Pop to Bryan and Skai. Architect and Pastor at St. Sebastian's Episcopal.

[quotemadness]

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Robert A. Heinlein

[quotemadness]

Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

Epictetus

[postmodernstephen]

fb-bryanmurphy:

I’m so glad I don’t have to move out of my loft and to somewhere that actually snows. I guess LA is stuck with me for a few more years or so.

As if we’ll see you that much, with all your travel.  But I’ll take what we can get. 

I know I said it already, but I’ll say it again, I’m so proud.   For I know the plans I have for you,” says the lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.

[quotemadness]

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Willa Cather (via quotemadness)

[postmodernstephen]

fb-bryanmurphy:

Not quite yet pops, still got a little ways until it’s official that I’ll be with the big dogs. I don’t know how I could ever repay you and mom for all the sacrifices you two made for me to get where I am now. 

Please, the fact that you are even in the draft means you are in the top tier, the guys who wanted it enough and delivered when it mattered.  At this point there are going to be politics and factors that come into play that you can’t control.  But your work got you here and I hope you take a moment to really, really relish this.  And you did it without compromising who you are, without letting your grades slip, without getting lost in the glamour and the girls and the drink.  I’m not just proud of you, I’m proud to be your dad.  

We didn’t do much, just what any family would do  for a talented kid like you.  You would have found a way with or without us - we’re just glad to have gotten a front seat to see you get here.  

You okay, in the homestretch here?  I’m sure you’ll land some place terrific.

[fb-bryanmurphy]

It’s official, I have entered into this year’s draft. 

[postmodernstephen]

So proud of you.  I can’t believe this day came already, after all the travelling teams and the practices and injuries and sweat.  You did it, kid.  You’re in the big leagues.

[quotemadness]

What if everyone got what they wanted? What then?

Neil Gaiman (via quotemadness)

[plummerchristopher]

[quotemadness]

There’s unconditional love there. You hear that phrase a lot but it’s real with me and her… She loves me in spite of everything, in spite of myself. She has saved my life more than once. She’s always been there with her love, and it has certainly made me forget the pain for a long time, many times. When it gets dark and everybody’s gone home and the lights are turned off, it’s just me and her.

Johnny Cash (via quotemadness)

[stormbun]

It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966) ⟶ There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin.

[gracreates]

The beautiful doors of Stone Town, Zanzibar

Grace Olguin · Copyright © 2012

[quotemadness]

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

Lewis B. Smedes

[quotemadness]

It had been a long day, and I don’t mind saying that I cried a little bit. There is nothing wrong with crying at the end of a long day.

Lemony Snicket (via quotemadness)

[mercedesjmurphy-blog]

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I’ll never get used to these industry parties that @mercedesjmurphy​ takes me to.  

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@mercedesjmurphy: you enjoy yourself more then I do. Don’t front.

[postmodernstephen]

PRIVATE:STEPHCEDES

Come now, love.  While you talked to Boyz II Men I had to listen to her talk about her poodles for 34 minutes.

[diyaandersonsmythe-blog]

Nah, she was right the first time. I’d have found her. You and Stephen could see her on the weekends. Poor Hunter, though. I feel bad for stealing his husband in this scenario. 

See Papa! At least you get weekends.

[sebastianandersmythe]

(1) Why is Daddy’s word the definitive answer when it easily could go either way?  I swear to god, one of these days Jared and I are moving to Paris. It’s Daddy’s baby radar versus a man of god!

(2) This is not a divorce, I wouldn’t get you on weekends, you wouldn’t be my daughter. Which is kind cool in some ways because it was be ALL GUYS all the time with me and my honey Stephen and Jared AND @fb-bryanmurphy!

[postmodernstephen]

You always become such a man of faith when you think I can dial my supposed Batphone with a direct connection Upstairs for you.

[postmodernstephen]

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I’ll never get used to these industry parties that @mercedesjmurphy​ takes me to.  

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[entertainmentweekly]

Revisit one of Prince’s last interviews with EW

With the release of ‘HITNRUN,’ the icon took EW inside the very, very purple world of Paisley Park.