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Hear a track from Eric Whitacre's album - ahead of its release! | gramophone.co.uk ›

… heart..squeezing…. lungs feel funny… brain melting…can’t…handle…this…much…beauty.

Anyway. Great mini-interview from my favorite composer and a sneak peak of one of his new pieces.

#alleluia  #choral music  #composer  #eargasm  #eric whitacre  #interview  #link  #october  #God  #dogma  #spirituality  #religion  #liturgy  #latin  
2 months ago on March 07, 2012 at 07:17pm
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I want a life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud. And I don’t want to get to the end, or to tomorrow, even, and realize that my life is a collection of meetings and pop cans and errands and receipts and dirty dishes. I want to eat cold tangerines and sing out loud in the car with the windows open and wear pink shoes and stay up all night laughing and paint my walls the exact color of the sky right now. I want to sleep hard on clean white sheets and throw parties and eat ripe tomatoes and read books so good they make me jump up and down, and I want everyday to make God belly laugh, glad that he gave life to someone who loves the gift.

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#yes yes yes!  #life  #God  #adventure  
4 months ago on January 31, 2012 at 12:59pm
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browser tabs currently open on my laptop:

(besides Tumblr, because that’s a given)

  • “Caring For Your Introvert” article (again)
  • INFJ TypeLogic profile
  • INTJ TypeLogic profile
  • Postcrossing
  • fascinating article on the differences between Eastern Orthodox and Western Orthodox (Roman Catholic and Protestant) translations of the Bible, specifically the of Hebrew words for “Sheol,” “Heaven,” “grave,” “pit,” “fires of gehennom,” etc. all mistranslated to “Hell/hellfire” in all Western translations since the Great Schism in 1054. Eastern Orthodoxy understands “Heaven” and “Hell” as spiritual states of mind within an individual, while Roman Catholicism and Evangelical Christianity understands “Heaven” and “Hell” to be physical places outside of the earthly realm Which has has a hell of a lot of implications (see what I did there?) for how mainstream Western Christianity operates and has never made sense to me because if Christians truly believe that God is the entirety of existence and that we are saved by grace and love, how could there be a “hell” that is void of Him and why would He put his beloved there? And now I’m connecting that with all stuff I learned and read and talked about in my agrarian philosophy class last year about dualism and the Enlightenment Period and how we are spiritually sick in our division from Creation and any real connection to God… to be elaborated on later… maybe.
  • Pinterest

good grief

#... i should be doing bio homework  #Christianity  #religion  #eastern orthodoxy  #dualism  #heaven  #hell  #lists  #procrastination  #God  
4 months ago on January 30, 2012 at 08:27pm
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a few things:

  • the research paper of doom is done. done. done. done. all i have to worry about now is christmas concert weekend and one final exam next week, and i’m home free.
  • my university’s gigantic christmas concert extravaganza is in four days and half the choir doesn’t know their words. so much rage. i know it will all come together by friday, but tonight’s dress rehearsal was extremely frustrating.
  • i have a voice lesson on wednesday. thank goodness. i need it.
  • as soon as this term is over, i will spend an entire week in bed watching audrey hepburn movies and finishing reading the hunger games trilogy and nabokov short stories and neruda poetry. that’s it. well, and probably christmas shopping. fine.
  • i make awesome song playlists.
  • twining’s english breakfast tea + cream + brown sugar = caramel-y comforting goodness
  • god loves cockroaches more than i care for most humans.

#lists  #random  #life  #choir  #college  #God  #love  
5 months ago on December 05, 2011 at 11:52pm
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