Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Beginnings Take 2
Well, it's been five years since I wrote in this blog and since I'm about to take a road trip, I thought I might give it a shot again. We leave on the 4th of July. The plan is to drive to Memphis on the 4th, then Norman, OK for the Toby Keith tornado relief concert, then head to Denver, then Grand Teton National Park and after a few days in the Tetons, end up in Lake Tahoe. I'm flying back from there while my friend, Susan, plans to spend the rest of the hot summer visiting with her daughter and wondering around the west. Let's see what really happens. Just to verify I know how to upload a picture, here is my dog, Bentley, reviewing his financial statements.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Perhapses and Considerations
My friend Susan's father is 86 years old. We all hang out together sometimes (Susan and I have a beer and he has brandy) and he talks and I love to hear his stories.
He's actually been through quite a bit in his life. He had tuberculosis when he was younger and spent a year or two in an asylum. He was in the merchant marines during WWII and his ship was hit. Everyone had to go into the water which was very cold. All of the life vests had little red lights on them so people would be easily visible in the water but it was so cold, you only had 15 minutes. He was obviously picked up in time, but he said the whole sea was filled with little red lights and you knew they were all dead.
Anyway, he writes a lot (I'm sure he would blog if he had a computer) and one day when we all met for breakfast, he brought me one page. Here it is:
Our thoughts about perhaps are that of consideration but how far is consideration from reality? Can it in fact ever become reality or is it actually a reality that is on the shelf like any commodity awaiting future shipment?
What keeps consideration from happening? Is it not the pluralization of our system of dimensions?
The quorum of thought needed to be possessed by brain power to shove consideration into the realm of now.
Isn't that what life's form is developed from?
Obviously much of perhaps and its counterpart consideration are left on the shelf for another day of dawning lite to reflect glory. But that which is into existence, the reality that besieges us, begins to dim and fade into or near hyperbole. Permanence begins to show in detail that perhapses and considerations are mine fields of conjecture that can be born into life. by Jim Farrington
What do you think?
He's actually been through quite a bit in his life. He had tuberculosis when he was younger and spent a year or two in an asylum. He was in the merchant marines during WWII and his ship was hit. Everyone had to go into the water which was very cold. All of the life vests had little red lights on them so people would be easily visible in the water but it was so cold, you only had 15 minutes. He was obviously picked up in time, but he said the whole sea was filled with little red lights and you knew they were all dead.
Anyway, he writes a lot (I'm sure he would blog if he had a computer) and one day when we all met for breakfast, he brought me one page. Here it is:
Our thoughts about perhaps are that of consideration but how far is consideration from reality? Can it in fact ever become reality or is it actually a reality that is on the shelf like any commodity awaiting future shipment?
What keeps consideration from happening? Is it not the pluralization of our system of dimensions?
The quorum of thought needed to be possessed by brain power to shove consideration into the realm of now.
Isn't that what life's form is developed from?
Obviously much of perhaps and its counterpart consideration are left on the shelf for another day of dawning lite to reflect glory. But that which is into existence, the reality that besieges us, begins to dim and fade into or near hyperbole. Permanence begins to show in detail that perhapses and considerations are mine fields of conjecture that can be born into life. by Jim Farrington
What do you think?
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Beginnings
They say starting something is the hardest part. I have found this is to be true (except for starting children - that seems all too easy). I remember when I was in school whenever I would get a new textbook, I would immediately flip to the middle of it and then freak out (especially if it was science or math) because I didn't understand anything. Of course we would start at the beginning and by the time we got to the middle, it made sense. My New year's goal this year (at the urging of my daughter) was to start a blog. But it took til now to come up with a name. Love Broke Thru is my favorite Phil Keaggy song and album which is now sadly out of print. It is also a commentary on my life. I don't think I learned to love until I had my children and then God gave that love to me. So this is for them. As the King of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland said, "Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop." That's the plan.
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