Awed: Poetics of Prayer

Bob Dylan:

“these are yuppie words, happiness and unhappiness. It’s not happiness or unhappiness, it’s either blessed or unblessed. As the Bible says, ‘Blessed is the man who walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly.’ Now, that must be a happy man. Knowing that you are the person you were put on this earth to be – that’s much more important than just being happy.

“Anyway, happiness is just a balloon – it’s just temporary stuff. Anybody can be happy, and if you’re not happy, they got a lot of drugs that can make you happy. But trust me: Life is not a bowl of cherries.”

“Bob Dylan at Fifty” Mikal Gilmore

Finished reading: How Children Raise Parents by Dan B. Allender 📚

Watched: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery 🍿

Finished reading: The Extended Mind by Annie Murphy Paul 📚

7 Heavens

“The heavens declare the glory of God…”

AND

“How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold: There’s not the smallest orb which thou behold’st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins; Such harmony is in immortal souls; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.”

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“The music of the spheres”…As juxtaposed by Michael Ward.

Finished reading: The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer 📚

Currently reading: The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer 📚

Pasta studies with the 3yo sous chef in the kitchen this evening.