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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
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Happy Birthday J.R.R. Tolkien
And may hope stay with us in the new year: …the night-sky was still dim and pale. There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. … Continue reading
In Honor of Spring and Frost
Yet all the precedent is on my side: –
I know that winter death has never tried –
The earth but it has failed Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Lyrics, the creative process, words
Tagged frost, hope, Onset, poetry
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A Reminder to Hope
I’m deep towards the end of Lord of the Rings on audiobook right now and at last, this oft-quoted here reminder that light prevails. …the night-sky was still dim and pale. There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor … Continue reading
Posted in badass-ness, clouds, geeky stuff, Lotr, reads, RESIST, sunsets, what I'm listening to
Tagged clouds, hope, LoTR, RESIST, sunset, tolkien
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Happy Birthday J.R.R.
Yes it’s that time again to remember the birthday of J.R.R. Tolkien and to be strengthened by those he wrote of, who may have seemed small and weak but managed in time of need to be strong enough to do … Continue reading
Happy Birthday J.R.R.
For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach. Continue reading
