to sleep till the sun was high

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Things, lately:
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Emma Elizabeth Tillman's photography. (She makes me want to go back to New Orleans.)

"So the only natural (and not 'supernatural') reaction of man, to whom God gave this blessed and sanctified world, is to bless God in return, to thank Him, to see the world as God sees it and — in this act of gratitude and adoration — to know, name and possess the world." (Alexander Schmemann)

This petzval lens.

I am attempting to start a daily sketchbook, one page per day, whatever comes to mind. A professor recommended that on days when I feel uninspired, I ought to go back to an old page and do something else on top of what I've already done. Make a collage, draw geometric shapes, and so forth. We'll see how this goes. But I need a discipline like this in order to stay creative, and to remember how much I love it.

These books — The Power and the Glory, The Year of Magical Thinking, and Hannah's Child.

Duke Divinity School so soon. Funny how that happens, how one day as a fourteen-year old sitting in a Catholic girls' school waiting to take the PSAT I imagine how I'd like to go to Duke Divinity School . . . and then one day I am actually doing it. I am grateful, more than I remember sometimes.

[holga 120, 135mm film, ernest hemingway's house last year]

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bright monday

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This is a good and beautiful prayer to carry into the fifty days of Easter:

O God of unchangeable power and eternal Light: Look favorably on your whole Church, that wonderful and sacred mystery; by the effectual working of your providence, carry out in tranquility the plan of salvation; let the whole world see and know that things which were cast down are being raised up, and things which had grown old are being made new, and that all things are being brought to their perfection by him through whom all things were made, your Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

[Steffen Thomas, Spring Supper]
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inspiring things | 7

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Carrie Schneider, Reading Women: Portraits.
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cajun spring break

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Just a few pictures from a disposable camera that tagged along on a spring break road trip to New Orleans: first time to Louisiana and back and fifteen hours in a car each way and eight friends and mossy trees and warm air and the best city streets and sugar-dusted beignets and freaky sculpture gardens and sneaking into plantation grounds and jazz on the sidewalk and Steffen Thomas and the best shotgun houses and a good raincoat and pillow talk with Kristine and seeing places I've only heard about. Mhm.
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Martina Lopez. Hand-waxed pigment prints. 2012. Titles, top to bottom: "Humility," "Awakening," and "Siblings."

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inspiring things | 5

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Aaron Ruell.
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on prayer | 14

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"Our times are in your hands:
But we count our times for us;
   we count our days and fill them with us;
   we count our weeks and fill them with our busyness;
   we count our years and fill them with our fears.
And then caught up short with your claim:
    Our times are in your hands.
Take our times, times of love and times of weariness.
Take them all, bless them and break them,
   give them to us again,
   slow paced and eager,
   fixed in your readiness for neighbor.
Occupy our calendars,
Flood us with daily kairoi,
    in the name of your fleshed kairos. Amen."

Walter Brueggemann, Awed to Heaven, Rooted to Earth: Prayers of Walter Brueggemann
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