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Reminded on Living - again
“Give me All. I don’t want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You. I have not come to torment your natural self, but to kill it. No half-measures are any good. I don’t want to cut off a branch here and a branch there, I want to have the whole tree down. I don’t want to drill the tooth, or crown it, or stop it, but to have it out. Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires you think which you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked- the whole outfit. I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you myself: my own will shall become yours.”
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, his own words on the message of Christ.
Posted April 21, 2012 at 2:10pm
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10 Plays
Eden Smith
I will follow you
Eden singing a classic from Death Cab for Cutie (tho my bias says she does it better!)
Posted November 8, 2011 at 1:37am
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The Summer of camping and outdoors is over of course. It was the best summer in a long time, much due to living within an hour of Olympic National Park and working 4 tens, leaving a full 3 day weekend of opportunity. I realize more and more now why my dad made fishing his passion away from work. I have been slowly pulled into nature the past couple years, an escape from the closed office and computer which for me seems to engender a ruminating mind that forgets the grandeur and play right outside and the play inside myself. I remember one of the best trips to the coast, not being able to stop looking at the patterns everywhere, the shapes in the sand molded every way possible by the wind and levels of water, reflected every way possible by the sun. An unashamed observer, I kept telling Eden, look! Look at that! Look at that!
And I then remember coming back and watching with a roommate my favorite Netflix documentary, 180 degrees south, further solidifying and naming these trips. A few quotes worthy of repeating below.
“I am drawn to open country. It’s where everything comes clear, where the world makes the most sense. When I put myself out there, I always return with something new. A friend once told me, the best journeys answer questions that in the beginning, you didn’t even think to ask.”
- Jeff Johnson, 180 Degrees South
“Taking a trip for six months, you get into the rhythm of it, it feels like you could just go on forever doing that. Climbing Everest is the ultimate and opposite of that, you get all these high powered plastic surgeons that pay $80k and have sherpas that put all ladders in place and 8,000 feet of fixed ropes and you don’t even have to put your sleeping bag out, it’s already laid out with a mint on the pillow. And the whole thing with climbing something like Everest is to effect some spiritual and physical gain, but if you compromise the process, you’re an asshole when you start out and an asshole when you get back.”
- Yvon Chouinard, 180 Degrees South
Posted October 23, 2011 at 6:39pm
