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[nerdyauthortheatrekid]

Incorrect Quotes Starring My Book Characters: Part 2

Dorothy: But what about Michael?

Peter: He'll be fine.

Peter: I once watched him fall down five flights of stairs, get back up, and keep eating his hot dog like nothing happened.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

"Animals Dancing In the Snow" by Michael Kelley

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Burroughs writes:

The physical cosmos itself is not a thought, but an act. Natural objects do not affect us like well-wrought specimens or finished handicraft, which have nothing to follow, but as living, procreating energy. Nature is perpetual transition. Everything passes and presses on; there is no pause, no completion, no explanation. To produce and multiply endlessly, without ever reaching the last possibility of excellence, and without committing herself to any end, is the law of Nature.

Burroughs sees this as “the essential difference between prose and poetry,” between “the poetic and the didactic treatment of a subject.” A great life, he intimates, is more like a great poem than like a great teaching:

The essence of creative art is always the same; namely, interior movement and fusion; while the method of the didactic or prosaic treatment is fixity, limitation. The latter must formulate and define; but the principle of the former is to flow, to suffuse, to mount, to escape. We can conceive of life only as something constantly becoming. It plays forever on the verge. It is never in loco, but always in transit. Arrest the wind, and it is no longer the wind; close your hands upon the light, and behold, it is gone And yet because these interior movements are fundamentally untranslatable between one consciousness and another, belonging to that region of absolute aloneness that accompanies the singularity of being oneself, there is always an element of the ineffable in all great creative work and all great persons: Couple with Lucille Clifton on how to be a living poem, then revisit Burroughs on the measure of a visionary, the art of noticing, and how to live with the uncertainties of life.

[Thank you Maria Popova and “the Marginalian]

[earthlings1997]

Michael Kelley Re-arrested in Connection with Murder of Kerry Farmer Michael Gaine

The investigation into the killing of Kerry farmer Michael Gaine has entered a significant new phase following the re-arrest of American national Michael Kelley. Gardaí detained the 53-year-old man early this morning at approximately 7.30am under a warrant obtained to question him in connection with the murder. He is currently being held at a garda station in Kerry and can be questioned for up to…

Michael Kelley Re-arrested in Connection with Murder of Kerry Farmer Michael Gaine

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Michael Kelley

For those who have kept their child soul.

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Michael Kelley

New Beginnings

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

3 Misunderstandings About Humility

We are to take a very active stance when it comes to humility, and to go hard after it.

by Michael Kelley | We are, as Christians, to pursue humility. We do that in any number of ways – by serving in such a way that we know we won’t be recognized, by reminding ourselves of our own sin and condemnation apart from Jesus, and simply by praying for it. We are, in other words, to take a...

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What the Garden of Eden Has to Do With Your Calendar

God loves us. Because He loves us, He gives us limits.

by Michael Kelley | God still loves His children and knows what is best for them. In His love, He has given us limitations. Limitations like our need for sleep. Or like the fact that the sun comes up and goes down in a regular cycle signaling the time for rest. Or that He explicitly set aside one day a week when no work was to be done, and even went so far as taking a day off Himself even though He was not...

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The Simplest Way to Impact Your Community Right Now — Think Eternity with Matt Brown

by Michael Kelley | God is not merely redeeming individuals; He is building a people for His own glory. This people will live together, with Him, for all eternity. Heaven will not be lived out in isolation, but in community. If we believe this to be true, then one way we testify to that belief is by pursuing a...