Boats Against the Current

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This is why you save every note from every mixtape. You all are welcome for this one.

This is why you save every note from every mixtape. You all are welcome for this one.

There is so little to remember of anyone— an anecdote, a conversation at table. But every memory is turned over and over again, every word, however chance, written in the heart in the hope that memory will fulfill itself, and become flesh, and that wanderers will find a way home. Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
alayman:

:)


That little guy needs a bath, but I like him!

alayman:

:)

That little guy needs a bath, but I like him!

(via kaciejo)

I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another. I want to believe there are geniuses scheming to astonish the rest of us, just for the pleasure of it. I miss civilization, and I want it back. Marilynne Robinson, The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought
I love finding random pictures on my phone after roadtrips. Great weekend with some of the best people in the world. Friends, relatives, mentors, kids, green men, dance parties, dogfights, coffee, on-the-road phone catchups, thunderstorms. All soundtracked by the joyously epic “Impossible Soul.”

I love finding random pictures on my phone after roadtrips. Great weekend with some of the best people in the world. Friends, relatives, mentors, kids, green men, dance parties, dogfights, coffee, on-the-road phone catchups, thunderstorms. All soundtracked by the joyously epic “Impossible Soul.”

New clothes in the mail today. Trying to look more professional, without looking like an engineer.

New clothes in the mail today. Trying to look more professional, without looking like an engineer.

Roy Halladay is a man among men. No hitter in his first postseason start.

Roy Halladay is a man among men. No hitter in his first postseason start.

(via scout)

I love when we read my tattoo at church.

I love when we read my tattoo at church.

This Week in Albums

Age of Adz
Sufjan Stevens - Age of Adz

Halcyon Digest
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest


No Age - Everything in Between

Brighten the Corners
Pavement - Brighten the Corners


Bob Dylan - The Times They Are a Changin’

Iconic.

Iconic.

Currently watching.

Currently watching.

  • Roger Thornhill: What's wrong with men like me?
  • Eve Kendall: They don't believe in marriage.
  • Roger Thornhill: I've been married twice.
  • Eve Kendall: See what I mean?
If you fellows can’t whip the VanDamm’s of this world without asking girls like her to bed down with them and probably never come back, perhaps you should lose a few cold wars. Roger Thornhill, North by Northwest
Nouns describe objective roles, parts to play, scripts to follow. Adjectives are more amorphous and qualitative, describing how we put our unique mark on an expected role. Both nouns and adjectives are necessary. Dan Allender, Leading with a Limp

Ran five miles in the rain tonight

alayman:

jdlayman:

So refreshing…

Welcome back to the Tumblr community, big brother!  I have missed you.

I know, right? I just got the app for my phone.