Matthew Clanahan; 24-year-old graduate student; Learning Support Specialist and adjunct English instructor at Three Rivers College; Bachelor's of Science in Mass Media/Radio with a minor in math from Southeast Missouri State University; Apple enthusiast; total geek; coffee connoisseur; multiple-instrument musician; drummer for Berlin Airlift; caffeine addict; grammar Nazi; Christ follower; ordinary radical
Interests: peace, love, equality, people, social justice, human rights, music, vinyl records, lyrics, quotes, art, poetry, films, books, technology, coffee, tea, demilitarization, sustainability, community, community development, community gardening, historic preservation, Jesus, theology
This Tumblelog will be the primary place [in addition to Facebook and Twitter] where I share media and web content that I find interesting. I will also share my thoughts on faith, hope, peace and love.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
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Hey, bro, cool story.
So that’s another way of doing it.
Also I hate your jeans.
I’m sitting here wearing a DFTBA shirt.
So… yeah.
John Green wins this one.
Julie Andrews, 1965.
this is like when you’re like “mom who’s that slammaramma pouncable character in this family photo?” and it turns out to be like your grandpa or something
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Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you, even when you don’t see it yourself.
I understand that you have an economic system in America known as Capitalism. Through this economic system you have been able to do wonders. You have become the richest nation in the world, and you have built up the greatest system of production that history has ever known. All of this is marvelous. But Americans, there is the danger that you will misuse your Capitalism. I still contend that money can be the root of all evil. It can cause one to live a life of gross materialism. I am afraid that many among you are more concerned about making a living than making a life. You are prone to judge the success of your profession by the index of your salary and the size of the wheel base on your automobile, rather than the quality of your service to humanity.
The misuse of Capitalism can also lead to tragic exploitation. This has so often happened in your nation. They tell me that one tenth of one percent of the population controls more than forty percent of the wealth. Oh America, how often have you taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes. If you are to be a truly Christian nation you must solve this problem.
Martin Luther King, Jr. - “Paul’s Letter to American Christians” (1956) [x] (via bottleofink)
Yes. I want to live here.
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I struggle with this frequently.
“When we comb the internet for news stories that you will watch and fill your brains with and be influenced by in some small way, we find stories every day that are heartbreaking, and they’re dark, and they’re draw-droppingly horrible, and they’re filled with evil people and evil things. But stories like this one, with a little girl who is being helped by a team of humans who have dedicated their lives to helping other humans… you should know about that.” {x}
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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.
— Charlotte Brontë, in the Preface to Jane Eyre (via thewham) (via my-ear-trumpet) (via tobia)
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