Chewed Food: FFW/P #5

Sunday, May 30, 2010

FFW/P #5

I have to have ONE room in my house that is dedicated completely and wholly to books; and the celebration of the luxury/comfort of them.

I know exactly how I want it to look. It goes something like this: Beautiful bookshelves made with beautiful wood (I haven't figured out just what yet. Maybe cherry wood..), DOZENS AND DOZENS, AND DOZENS OF BOOKS will garland those bookshelves. There has to be a window in the room and a window seat with comfy pillows and even a throw (i.e. light decorative but COMFY blanket) for comfort. LOTS of lamps. There's something comforting/reassuring about reading by the light of a lamp. BIG COMFY LEATHER RECLINING SEATS!! (Those are the star of the show besides the books!) And the window is going to have pretty flowy modest curtains. (I don't want them to take away from the leather seats or the books..etc..) And lots of dried flowers and fresh flowers in the room for a sweet scent! This is one wish I hope will come true someday. I could do without all the other stuff in the room as long as I had lots of natural light from a window, leather reclining seats, and that WHOLE room for books!! (Oh and of course lamps...) :D

Does anyone have a dream room for their future home?

Sweetly dreaming,

~Elisabeth Darcy

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C. S. Lewis:

1~"Mercy, detached from justice, becomes unmerciful."

2~"The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed. "

3~"Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done..."

4~"All that we call human history--money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery--[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy. "

5~"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point."

Chesterton:

1~"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. “He that will lose his life, the same shall save it,” is not a piece of mysticism for saints and heroes. It is a piece of everyday advice for sailors or mountaineers. It might be printed in an Alpine guide or a drill book. This paradox is the whole principle of courage; even of quite earthly or quite brutal courage. A man cut off by the sea may save his life if he will risk it on the precipice.

He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it. A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine."

"What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism."

"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried"

Charles Spurgeon:

1~"Thus there will be three effects of nearness to Jesus-humility, happiness, and holiness. May God give them to thee, Christian!"

The Avett Brothers (A Band):

1~"So you want to be in love like the movies
But in the movies they're not in love at all
And with a twinkle in their eyes
They're just saying their lines
So we can't be in love like the movies

Now in the movies they make it look so perfect
And in the background they're always playing the right song
And in the ending there's always a resolution
But real life is more than just two hours long

Well you can freeze frame any moment from a movie
Or run the whole damn thing backwards from reel to reel
But I don't see one single solitary light technician
Or one single camera in this moonlit field"

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Sunday, May 30, 2010

FFW/P #5

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