#bruce feiler

[fallensapphires]

Animals: Red-Eared Slider Turtle

Take a walk with a turtle. And behold the world in pause.

Requested by: @seasidefanasties

[cactusflowersalongtheroad]

“American culture really has two souls. And it’s not a question of whether the culture becomes secularized. The culture never becomes one thing or the other. The culture is always two. The culture is always William Bradford and Jonathan Edwards. The culture is always Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Edison. America was born just in time to have two mentalities. We’re like Jacob and Esau struggling in the womb. Secular people want to believe that we are a nation of the Enlightenment, and because of the Founding Fathers and the Constitution that secularism will supersede religion. Religious people want to believe that through the revival religion will supersede secularism. And both are wrong. “What’s going to happen,” he said, “is that there will continue to be a constant dynamic and tension between the two, running side by side. And they’re going to keep on being about that for as long as there’s an American identity worth talking about.”  

- Bruce Feiler, America’s Prophet: Moses and the American Story.

[therumpus]

In the chapel’s most famous, seemingly male-centric image, God reaches his index finger to touch Adam’s, symbolically giving him life. Yet the creator’s other arm drapes over Eve, holding her to his chest. Locate the exact center of the ceiling and you won’t find God, Jesus, or Adam, but instead Eve’s face and torso. In the panel depicting their temptation, Adam appears to be reaching for the taboo fruit just as much as his partner, who sits curled around his legs, her head directly next to his semi-erect penis—an image the Vatican considered so scandalous, it wasn’t reproduced for centuries. And Eve isn’t alone. For every male patriarch on the walls, Michelangelo includes a woman, illustrating the importance of duality and cooperation, not hierarchy.

Biblical Rebels And Romantics In The First Love Story by Brian Gresko

[donalddraperdatacomplex]

[asrarblog]

Four Tips from Great People – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #694

Four Tips from Great People – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #694

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[quote-junkie]

Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive.

Bruce Feiler