"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
~ Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms



"Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may touch one another, again bounce away. This is the felt shape of a human life, neither simply linear nor wholly disjunctive nor endlessly bifurcating, but rather this bouncey sequence of bumping into's and tumblings apart."
~ Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet



Sunday, January 22, 2012

Kris Kristofferson - The Pilgrim Chapter 33...Prodigal Sons - Finding Our Way Home...

"He's a poet, he's a picker
He's a prophet, he's a pusher
He's a pilgrim and a preacher, and a problem when he's stoned
He's a walkin' contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction,
Takin' ev'ry wrong direction on his lonely way back home..."


"He has tasted good and evil in your bedrooms and your bars,
And he's traded in tomorrow for today
Runnin' from his devils, Lord, and reachin' for the stars,
And losin' all he's loved along the way
But if this world keeps right on turnin' for the better or the worse,
And all he ever gets is older and around
From the rockin' of the cradle to the rollin' of the hearse,
The goin' up was worth the comin' down..."

1 comment:

  1. This makes me think of the Johnny Cash story.
    something I read....God does not see us as we are now, but as we shall be when He has perfected us.
    "Jesus became as sinful as we are that we might become as righteous as He is."
    A song written by Agustus Toplady 1775
    "Rock of Ages, cleft for me,
    Let me hide myself in Thee:
    Let the water & the blood,
    From Thy wounded side which flowed,
    Be of sin the double cure.
    Save from wrath & make me pure."

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