Email from Ellie to Erica:
hey erica. do u happen to have a copy or notes from the speech you gave at the wedding? ive thought of that so many times. it would mean a lot to me to have it...
love you and see u soon,
ellie
Email from Erica to Ellie:
shoot. i've been looking but i can't find those notes. sorry, i should have kept better track. i'll keep looking and let you know if i find them.
i was just missing you today and can't wait to see you soon.
love,
erica
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Fridge Quote Ideas
Where we love is home,
Home that our feet may leave,
but not our hearts.
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
Here's to the grapes, to cheer both great and small;
little fools will drink too much, and great fools not at all.
Love looks through a telescope, not a microscope.
A baby is someone you carry inside you for nine months, in your arms for three years, and in your heart until the day you die.
Religion is both a river to swim in and a rock to hold onto.
Religion grows from the heart as much as the head, and it cries out to fuse body and mind. Faith is an orientation of the whole personality, a total response. It's not just a belief--the holding of certain ideas--which is a function of the mind alone. Beliefs can be expressed in propositional form to which adjectives true and false may be attached. Faith, by contrast, is the opposite of nihilism and despair. It may or may not include beliefs, but it is much larger; it is the ability to experience the universe as meaningful. Having faith means that our lives hold together and make sense at a deeper level. Rather than seeming absurd. Therefore your religion is something you not only think about but also sing, dance, eat, paint, and sculpt. To find your religion you must engage all of your senses. You should feel it as well as explain it, hear it as well as see it. Taste it as well as smell it.
We accept the world for the joyous place it was meant to be. We must work to make earthly existence as abundant and happy as it can be made. We must glorify and sanctify the world.
Never lose a holy curiosity.
All religions, arts, and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most elementary forms - this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it? I answer, the man who regards his own life, and that of his fellow-creatures, as meaningless is not merely unfortunate, but almost disqualified for life.
We welcome the insights of science and reason, and we use tools of reason when we encounter mystery. We also welcome, however, persons who advance theories of mystery. We use the tools of reason gently and humbly in our own thinking, and even more gently and humbly when we are conversing with others. Reason is joined by other core values, such as love, respect, and delight in difference. If we don’t use the tools of reason gently, especially in conversation with others, we will never grow in spirit or find the truth of mystery. It is those realms that make our lives rich.
On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. . . . Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life, and that the grave has no victory, for it never fights. All is divine harmony.
Science and Religion are like two wings on a bird. To have one without the other is like a one winged bird that will never fly. Science without Religion is Materialism, and Religion without Science is Superstition. Anyone insisting that only the literal interpretation of the bible is correct, or that there is no God, is guilty of lazy thinking.
A man should be judged by his spirit; by the climate of his heart; by the autumn of his generosity; by the spring of his hope; he should be judged by what he does; by the influence that he exerts, rather than by the mythology he may believe.
The Four Laws of Ecology: (1) Everything is connected to everything else; (2) Everything must go somewhere; (3) Nature knows best; and (4) There is no such thing as a free lunch.
Our basic principles are: a reverence for life; a respect for the inherent dignity of each person; and a belief in human potential.
Home that our feet may leave,
but not our hearts.
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
Here's to the grapes, to cheer both great and small;
little fools will drink too much, and great fools not at all.
Love looks through a telescope, not a microscope.
A baby is someone you carry inside you for nine months, in your arms for three years, and in your heart until the day you die.
Religion is both a river to swim in and a rock to hold onto.
Religion grows from the heart as much as the head, and it cries out to fuse body and mind. Faith is an orientation of the whole personality, a total response. It's not just a belief--the holding of certain ideas--which is a function of the mind alone. Beliefs can be expressed in propositional form to which adjectives true and false may be attached. Faith, by contrast, is the opposite of nihilism and despair. It may or may not include beliefs, but it is much larger; it is the ability to experience the universe as meaningful. Having faith means that our lives hold together and make sense at a deeper level. Rather than seeming absurd. Therefore your religion is something you not only think about but also sing, dance, eat, paint, and sculpt. To find your religion you must engage all of your senses. You should feel it as well as explain it, hear it as well as see it. Taste it as well as smell it.
We accept the world for the joyous place it was meant to be. We must work to make earthly existence as abundant and happy as it can be made. We must glorify and sanctify the world.
Never lose a holy curiosity.
All religions, arts, and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most elementary forms - this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it? I answer, the man who regards his own life, and that of his fellow-creatures, as meaningless is not merely unfortunate, but almost disqualified for life.
We welcome the insights of science and reason, and we use tools of reason when we encounter mystery. We also welcome, however, persons who advance theories of mystery. We use the tools of reason gently and humbly in our own thinking, and even more gently and humbly when we are conversing with others. Reason is joined by other core values, such as love, respect, and delight in difference. If we don’t use the tools of reason gently, especially in conversation with others, we will never grow in spirit or find the truth of mystery. It is those realms that make our lives rich.
On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. . . . Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life, and that the grave has no victory, for it never fights. All is divine harmony.
Science and Religion are like two wings on a bird. To have one without the other is like a one winged bird that will never fly. Science without Religion is Materialism, and Religion without Science is Superstition. Anyone insisting that only the literal interpretation of the bible is correct, or that there is no God, is guilty of lazy thinking.
A man should be judged by his spirit; by the climate of his heart; by the autumn of his generosity; by the spring of his hope; he should be judged by what he does; by the influence that he exerts, rather than by the mythology he may believe.
The Four Laws of Ecology: (1) Everything is connected to everything else; (2) Everything must go somewhere; (3) Nature knows best; and (4) There is no such thing as a free lunch.
Our basic principles are: a reverence for life; a respect for the inherent dignity of each person; and a belief in human potential.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Silly Song
You're the Most Wonderful Baby in the World (to the tune of Most Wonderful Time of the Year)
You're the most wonderful baby in the world
You sit on my knee
And smile back at me
And I just gotta say
You're the most wonderful baby in the world
You're the hap-happiest baby of all
There'll be tantrums and whining
And diapers and crying
But I know I love
The most wonderful baby in the world
'Cause you smile at meep meep
And you laugh in your sleep
And stare at your wiggling toes
Though you pee in the sheets
I love you a whole heap
And all who know you must know
You're the most wonderful baby in the world
You fill diapers and daddy's hands
Throw off the best-laid plans
But still we all know
You're the most wonderful baby in the world
You're the most wonderful baby in the world
You proudly stand tall
Teeter wobble and all
And in your froggie hat
You're the most wonderful baby in the world
You're the most wonderful baby in the world
You sit on my knee
And smile back at me
And I just gotta say
You're the most wonderful baby in the world
You're the hap-happiest baby of all
There'll be tantrums and whining
And diapers and crying
But I know I love
The most wonderful baby in the world
'Cause you smile at meep meep
And you laugh in your sleep
And stare at your wiggling toes
Though you pee in the sheets
I love you a whole heap
And all who know you must know
You're the most wonderful baby in the world
You fill diapers and daddy's hands
Throw off the best-laid plans
But still we all know
You're the most wonderful baby in the world
You're the most wonderful baby in the world
You proudly stand tall
Teeter wobble and all
And in your froggie hat
You're the most wonderful baby in the world
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Yuletide Greetings Ideas
Celebrate beginning of December and holiday season with a yule log and hot apple cider, mulled wine, or hot chocolate?
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