January 2009
30 posts
Norman Maclean
4 favorite quotes:
One of life’s quiet excitements is to stand somewhere apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful, even if it is only a floating ash. When I was young a teacher had forbidden me to say “more perfect” because she said if a thing is perfect it can’t be more so. But by now I had seen enough of life to have...
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It's all all right
(I wrote this a while ago, but am posting it now with a few edits.)
From the minute I came into work tonight I wanted to leave. This feeling is pretty standard, but tonight it was coupled with a sudden case of aggravating allergies. I couldn’t go two minutes without prolonged sneezing. My eyes were watery and the very back of my right eye itched so much I tried scratching it with a...
“Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction,...”
– Ayn Rand
Moroni 10:3-5
The Book of Mormon identifies emotion as evidence of the truth. Moroni 10:4-5 predicts that when one reads the book with “real intent”, he or she will know the “truth of it…by the power of the Holy Ghost. And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things.” The Doctrine and Covenants confirms that when the preacher and hearer “are...
Significant Moments
If something has the power to move me, I want to read it, watch it, experience it. I keep a list of significant moments in my life that have done this to me.
1. During my first semester at Utah State there was a coffee shop right behind my dorm room, and nearly every night I would go and get a drink and relax. On one particular night I met up with a few friends and we talked nearly the entire...
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