once wild

if the heart is wild, no fence will keep you

23. Portland Native. Tanzania Bound. Tattoo Lover. Jesus Follower. Believer in the Seamless Garment. World Citizen. Teacher. Bibliophile. Whimsical. Wild at Heart. HIV/AIDS Activist. Egalitarian. Feminist. Dreamer. Karaoke Queen. Writer. Constantly Changing.

Things I love (& tend to post): world maps, tattoos, trees, bird imagery, RENT, history from multiple perspectives, celebrating cultures, mason jars, owls, roller derby, quotes, nature

January 28, 2012 2:01 pm

Off to save the day… (by NewportSurfShots.com)

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January 27, 2012 2:03 pm

(by silje/vanilje)

tattoo by Portland artist Silje Røe Hagland

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January 26, 2012 2:03 pm

"You’ve been halfway living your life for too long. When it’s time to die, go ahead and die, and when it’s time to live, live. Don’t sort-of-maybe live, but live like you’re going all out, like you’re not afraid."

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The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

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January 25, 2012 2:02 pm

I fell in love with my life (by tisdagsregn)

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live!

January 24, 2012 2:03 pm

Le Labyrinthe de Michelangelo Pistoletto, @le 104 (by looking4poetry)

January 23, 2012 2:02 pm

"[New atheists] are curiously unable to comprehend those who found through their religious convictions the strength to stand up against injustice. Hitchens writes of Martin Luther King Jr. that “in no real as opposed to nominal sense, then, was he a Christian.” He disparages the faith of Abraham Lincoln and assures us that Dietrich Bonhoeffer, whom the Nazis put to death for resistence, was the product of a religious belief that had “mutated into an admirable but nebulous humanism.” … All those religious figures who found the courage to live the moral life must be maligned and dismissed as not authentically religious."

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Chris Hedges, When Atheism Becomes Religion

This explains all the atheist kids that like to tell me things like “You’re not really a Christian” or “Christians suck, but you don’t really count.” (via zurik)

Bonhoeffer. Seriously, Hitchens? Can’t we just recognize that some people do great things out of religious conviction just as some people do great things out of secular belief?

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January 22, 2012 2:01 pm

And The Rest Will Follow (by Boy_Wonder)

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January 21, 2012 2:01 pm

No Butts (by Sarah McNeil)

illustrations

January 20, 2012 2:00 pm

Female Fairy Wren (by Sarah McNeil)

birds

January 19, 2012 2:04 pm

"I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me. My love’s not impersonal yet not wholly subjective either. I would like to be everyone, a cripple, a dying man, a whore, and then come back to write about my thoughts, my emotions, as that person. But I am not omniscient. I have to live my life, and it is the only one I’ll ever have. And you cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time."

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Sylvia Plath

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January 18, 2012 2:04 pm

hopeforthehelpless:

“My children, we must not only talk about loving people; we must show we love people by what we do for them. We must really love them.”
-1 John 3:18 (WE)

[page 15/15 of a project I made for a friend to encourage adoption and other acts of social justice from a Biblical standpoint]

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January 17, 2012 2:45 pm

"The stories people tell have a way of taking care of them. If the stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive. That is why we put these stories in each other’s memory."

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BARRY LOPEZ (via itsjustmeemily)