to dust we return

Here’s the truth: friendships between women are often the deepest and most profound love stories, but they are often discussed as if they are ancillary, “bonus” relationships to the truly important ones. Women’s friendships outlast jobs, parents, husbands, boyfriends, lovers, and sometimes children.
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I saw, on that afternoon, that it’s possible to transcend the limits of your skin in a friendship. That a friend can take you out of the boxes you’ve made for yourself and burn them up. This kind of friendship is not a frivolous connection, a supplementary relationship to the ones we’re taught and told are primary – spouses, children, parents. It is love.

currently taking a course on the history of mission and development.  it’s so fascinating how the role of religion and faith takes shape (in some terrible ways) throughout time. nationalgeographicdaily: Church of Rodel, Outer HebridesPhoto: Jim Richardson The 15th-century church of Rodel on the Isle of Lewis, buildt for the warlike chiefs of the MacLeods, towers over the sea lochs of Scotland’s Outer Hebrides. Nothing in early modern Britain, from its cities to its remotest corners, was more political than religion. The church in every parish - nearly always the most imposing building - was as much a symbol of worldly control as a shrine to God.

currently taking a course on the history of mission and development.  it’s so fascinating how the role of religion and faith takes shape (in some terrible ways) throughout time.

nationalgeographicdaily:

Church of Rodel, Outer Hebrides
Photo: Jim Richardson

The 15th-century church of Rodel on the Isle of Lewis, buildt for the warlike chiefs of the MacLeods, towers over the sea lochs of Scotland’s Outer Hebrides. Nothing in early modern Britain, from its cities to its remotest corners, was more political than religion. The church in every parish - nearly always the most imposing building - was as much a symbol of worldly control as a shrine to God.

Today I noticed one lone leaf clinging onto the tree in front of my house. Otherwise, it’s all bald. “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” (by Boy_Wonder)

Today I noticed one lone leaf clinging onto the tree in front of my house. Otherwise, it’s all bald.

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” (by Boy_Wonder)

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I walked out of the house before 6am last Tuesday. It was so dark that when I looked up, I saw some of my favourite constellations in the sky - ones I hadn’t seen since I left Kingston.  Starry sky, it’s been too long.

I walked out of the house before 6am last Tuesday. It was so dark that when I looked up, I saw some of my favourite constellations in the sky - ones I hadn’t seen since I left Kingston. 

Starry sky, it’s been too long.

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