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focus on the dials

katiezaffrann — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 01:06:56 +0000

“I never let myself be afraid. I just focus on the dials and concentrate on flying.” –Chuck Yeager, USAF Major General, famed test pilot and the first pilot to fly faster than the speed of sound (with thanks to my teacher for passing this gem on)

Heading into the studio in just over a week! I’m ready. Just gonna focus on the music and concentrate on flying.

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the avowal

katiezaffrann — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:26:28 +0000

As swimmers dare
to lie face to the sky
and water bears them,
as hawks rest upon air
and air sustains them,
so would I learn to attain
freefall, and float
into Creator Spirit’s deep embrace,
knowing no effort earns
that all-surrounding grace.

(denise levertov)

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possibilities

katiezaffrann — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:28:39 +0000

“Now there were practical things to be accomplished… But these things would be easy.
She believed the city was so full of combinations, permutations, and possibilities that it permitted not only any desire to be fulfilled, but any course to be taken, any reward to be sought, any life to be lived, and any race to be run. She closed her eyes and saw the city burning before her in enticing gold. The sky, filled with great voluminous clouds, was ablaze in winter blue.”

mark helprin, winter’s tale

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two goddesses

katiezaffrann — Wed, 26 May 2010 19:12:28 +0000

There are two goddesses in your heart: the Goddess of Wisdom and the Goddess of Wealth. Everyone thinks they need to get wealth first, and wisdom will come. So they concern themselves with chasing money. But they have it backwards. You have to give your heart to the Goddess of Wisdom, give her all your love and attention, and the Goddess of Wealth will become jealous, and follow you.

(as read in born to run)

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happiness

katiezaffrann — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:35:37 +0000

Must link. Terry Teachout’s periodic “Almanac” postings of quotes and musings rarely fail to inspire… but this one really did it for me today:

“Happiness is one of the hardest things to write about, and the difficulty of doing so makes me long to be a musician or a painter, for painters and musicians are at ease with the supreme emotion, which is not grief but joy abounding. To be able to make a joyful noise unto the Lord or a praise of colors and forms would seem to me to equate any man with gods or little children. Happiness annihilates time. We measure history by its catastrophes, we recall the weather by its storms, but the periods of peace and joy–who can describe them?”

Hugh MacLennan, The Watch That Ends the Night

About Last Night

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