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in memory of sherry jane's brain cells
in memory of sherry jane's brain cells


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i'm making the list as early as now.

1. arrange everything in the shelf

2. re/visit the past

3. tour the museum/ know well the heroes

4. explore the internal waters

5. find a way to the church

6. write to the manufacturing company

7. hang the flag

8. say goodbye temporarily over dinner

9. compete in a race

10. figure what style



August 29, 2009 | 10:47 PM Comments  0 comments

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"Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in love in a quite absolute, final way.

What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything.

It will decide what will get you out of bed in the morning,
what you will do with your evenings,
how you will spend your weekends,
what you read,
who you know,
what breaks your heart,
and what amazes you with joy and gratitude.

Fall in love, stay in love and it will decide everything."

--Attributed to Pedro Arrupe, S.J. (1907-1991)
Superior General of the Society of Jesus 1961-1984


May 4, 2009 | 10:35 AM Comments  0 comments

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i spoke with an old friend today and one topic came up, an analysis of our age. we are already 24 (at least this is a significant number for jack bauer or mike enriquez). She shared that she feels like she's 30. i admitted for being quite abnormal for feeling like i'm just 16.

If my grandfather who is over 80, but feels and acts as if he's in his 20s, was taking part in our conversation, he would most probably recite before us this poem who according to him is a personal favorite of Gen. Douglas McArthur:

YOUTH POEM

By: Samuel Ullman

Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind,
it is a temper of the will,
a quality of the imagination,
a vigor of the emotions,
a predominance of courage over timidity,
of the appetite for adventure over love of ease.

Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years.
People grow old only by deserting their ideals.
Years wrinkle the skin,
but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Worry, doubt, self-distrust,
fear and despair - these are the long,
long years that bow the head and
turn the growing spirit back to dust.

Whether they are sixteen or seventy,
there is in every being's heart
the love of wonder,
the sweet amazement at the stars
and starlike things and thoughts,
the undaunted challenge of events,
the unfailing childlike appetite
for what is to come next,
and the joy and the game of life.

You are as young as your faith,
as old as your doubt;
as young as your self-confidence,
as old as your fear,
as young as your hope,
as old as your despair.
When the wires are all down
and all the innermost core of your heart
is covered with the snows of pessimism
and the ice of cynicism,
then you are grown old indeed.

But so long as your heart
receives messages of beauty, cheer,
courage, grandeur and power from the earth,
from man and from the Infinite,
so long you are young.

April 8, 2009 | 9:53 AM Comments  2 comments

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