Beneath the Skies

My name is Matt and this is mainly a commonplace book but is not limited to that. I am particularly interested in culture, languages, art, and the general mystery of this "feverish and silly world."

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“Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by a good fire?”

— C.S. Lewis (via abideinhislove)

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crashinglybeautiful:

Jeanloup Sieff, Café de Flore, Paris, 1975. From Le Clown Lyrique.

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andoutcamethewolf:

Bon Iver || re:Stacks

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“If your congregation sings only Hillsong choruses, then their emotional repertoire will be limited to about two different feelings...”

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Gary Clark Jr. - “Please Come Home”

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re: Stacks

Bon Iver,

For Emma, Forever Ago

andoutcamethewolf:

Bon Iver || re:Stacks

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Nature walk. (Taken with instagram)

If your congregation sings only Hillsong choruses, then their emotional repertoire will be limited to about two different feelings (God-you-make-me-happy, and God-I’m-infatuated-with-you) – considerably less even than the emotional range of a normal adult person. It is why entire congregations sometimes seem strangely adolescent, or even infantile: they lack a proper emotional range, as well as a suitable adult vocabulary. But in the psalter one finds the entire range of human emotion and experience – a range that is vastly wider than the emotional capacity of any single human life.

Faith and Theology: Psalms for all seasons: a contemporary psalter (via gmd)

(via ayjay)

Sunset behind the mountains and delicious wine from a homely glass. Great night. (Taken with instagram)

I wonder how many people I have looked at all my life and never seen.

Ethan from John Steinbeck’s The Winter of our Discontent

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

John Steinbeck - The Winter of Our Discontent

john steinbeck

Duende

lauracricket:

Spanish - While originally used to describe a mythical, spritelike entity that possesses humans and creates the feeling of awe of one’s surroundings in nature, its meaning has transitioned into referring to “the mysterious power that a work of art has to deeply move a person.”

19th on this list of “20 Awesomely Untranslatable Words From Around The World”

(via marcyowensis)

Miles Davis - Gone

Philly Joe Jones is the drummer. There’s only a few drummers who you can hear and actually leave having their riffs stuck in your head and he is one of them.

…when they study our civilization two thousand years from now, there will only be three things that Americans will be known for: the Constitution, baseball and jazz music. They’re the three most beautiful things Americans have ever created.

Gerald Early.