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I’ve liked plenty of the churches I’ve visited this year—some of them enough to make me visit up to five weeks in a row—but I could really see myself coming back to the church I visited this Sunday.

I decided to venture out into a neighboring city again (just like I had done two Sundays ago when I visited an ELCA congregation), but I went for an Episcopal church this time instead of a Lutheran one.

(I’ve visited one of the Episcopal churches in my own town several times, but I never quite felt like that congregation was “The One.”)

Today’s church visit, though?

My photo doesn’t do it justice, but it definitely left a good first impression:

But it’s the people I met who really made a huge difference for me and make me want to keep coming back.

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July 27

“ Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs;
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes;
Being vex’d a sea nourish’d with lovers’ tears:
What is it else? a madness most discreet,
A choking gall and a preserving sweet. Romeo. (via nedhepburn)

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nevver:

Calvin and Hobbes

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thepit-nyc:

Shackled returns Friday, July 27th @ 7PM!

Damn…Dion Flynn and Nate Starkey put on one hell of a show. Shackled wasn’t just a great improvised show, but a microcosm of all improv itself! -Johnny Harkins Improvisation News.com

Shackled was hands down the best new show that I saw at the New York Unscripted Improvised Theatre Festival. A great performance with confidence, daring, intelligence, intensity, and passion. Dramatic, funny, scary, and tender. - Jonathan Pitts, Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Chicago Improv Festival

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gregorysiff:

Shit is really happening. Photo by @dreamsequences #gregorysiff #thepictures (Taken with Instagram)

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I Don't Know Why I'm Crying.

Do you remember laying flat on your bed, eyes gushing like Old Faithful, unsightly snot dripping down way too close to your open mouth? This is you after your dog died. This is you after a break up. This is you after failing to assemble an Ikea chair.

This image comes frighteningly close to what I was doing this week. My best friend and roommate moved to another state and an onslaught of huge life changes came my way. While making like weeping roadkill, Kate Bush’s song, ‘Suspended in Gaffa’ came through my head. I don’t know why I’m crying, Kate croons.

“Wait, I don’t know why I’m crying,” I thought to myself.

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artby2wenty:

“Fam Not Fame” Creative Cartel Shirts…Coming Soon… (Taken with Instagram)

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“ Find what you love and let it kill you. Charles Bukowski (via nedhepburn)

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“ You live up in Yankee Land, but right now you’re down in God’s Country. my best friend’s husband teaching my daughter some geography :)

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July 26

nedhepburn:

newyorker:

John Cassidy on why Obama shouldn’t write James Holmes out of history: http://nyr.kr/QtuGXj

The demonization of crazed shooters can serve a political purpose: personalizing the debate engages the public and enables politicians to face down the gun lobby. In Britain, the name Michael Ryan—he shot sixteen people in 1987—is associated with a ban on semi-automatic weapons. In Canada, the name Marc Lépine—he shot fourteen women in 1989—is tied to gun laws that required gun owners to undergo a thorough background check, register their weapons, and take a course in firearms safety.

… As long as his name and his heinous acts live on in the public consciousness, there may be some chance of reform.

Maybe if America starts believing in itself more and weans itself from the teat of fear, then sure.

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I think I just fell in love with a church