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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 38cf5c8 | Part of what I've learned is that if it isn't life and death, it isn't life and death. | Abigail Thomas | ||
| c2bcea9 | looks as if I have an open umbrella concealed under my skirt. How did that happen? | Abigail Thomas | ||
| d65a296 | I am trying to make sense of this. Survivor's guilt, acceptance, there were words that made me roll my eyes; surely I was too sophisticated for such cliches... So now today I look up the word acceptance and the definition is "to receive gladly" and that doesn't sound right. I flip to the back, and look up its earliest root, "to rasp," and discover this comes from the old English for "a thread used in weaving," and bingo, that's it. You can'.. | weave weaving | Abigail Thomas | |
| 6cb129c | Death is both a certainty and an unknown, Chuck says. It's hard to get a grip on it. | Abigail Thomas | ||
| 8efb60a | Australian Aborigines slept with their dogs for warmth on cold nights, the coldest being a "three dog night." --WIKIPEDIA" | Abigail Thomas | ||
| d640900 | She was tired of relationships whose greatest intimacy consisted of sitting up all night weeping while love died. | Abigail Thomas | ||
| 7bb9d63 | You can appreciate things at four in the morning that would go right past you during the day. | Abigail Thomas | ||
| a077b1a | and you have to take gladly what life offers, she has learned that much, and sometimes you get lucky. There's nothing wrong with that, is there? There's nothing wrong with that. | Abigail Thomas | ||
| 27f4d5e | Since barbarism has its pleasures, it naturally has its apologists. | Barbarian | ||
| 63d3cdc | Subordinates may initiate contact more often, but the one with the higher rank gets to decide when and if to interact. | Patricia B. McConnell | ||
| a5d8414 | I drove my Border Collies crazy for a few weeks trying to teach them to wait at the door as a group and then go outside one at a time. Each dog could go out the door after I said his or her name, followed by the word OK. As soon as I said "OK," not surprisingly, all the dogs would get up and move forward, no matter whose name preceded it. I knew it would be hard for them, since they had all learned as individuals that "OK" meant "Go ahead a.. | Patricia B. McConnell | ||
| 5579d1a | If "OK" meant that "it's all right to get up now," it makes sense that Pip would respond when she heard it. So if your dog Chief can pick the word sit out of the middle of a sentence, what is he to make of "Good sit" after he already sat? With Pip I got caught up in using words as if I were talking to a human, and I think other owners replicate that mistake often.1" | Patricia B. McConnell | ||
| 2c4efa3 | electrical cords, dangerous cleaning supplies, household chemicals, sugar free gum with xylitol (which can be fatal to dogs) and potentially toxic plants, like lilies and philodendrons. Put irreplaceable items, such as photo albums or a toy that a child uses as a security blanket out of reach. | Patricia B. McConnell | ||
| 1b24592 | Generally dogs do best if their crates are in rooms that you frequently use, but that aren't in high traffic areas or in front of windows. | Patricia B. McConnell | ||
| 76bc29a | Please take this caution about keeping a new dog on leash seriously; an escaped dog is one of the most common problems that people experience with adopted dogs. | Patricia B. McConnell | ||
| 331a82e | Ideally play is joyful and childlike, a physically and psychologically healthy exercise for both people and dogs. Psychologists and spiritual counselors advise us all to put more childlike play into our lives. I think it's great advice: play is good for our spirits, our bodies, and our minds. It teaches us, both dogs and humans, to coordinate our efforts with others, to learn to inhibit ourselves even when excited, and to share the ball eve.. | Patricia B. McConnell | ||
| e9d7015 | Ideally play is joyful and childlike, a physically and psychologically healthy exercise for both people and dogs. Psychologists and spiritual counselors advise us all to put more childlike play into our lives. I think it's great advice: play is good for our spirits, our bodies, and our minds. It teaches us, both dogs and humans, to coordinate our efforts with others, to learn to inhibit ourselves even when excited, and to share the ball eve.. | Patricia B. McConnell | ||
| 0f53ea4 | up and down like | Patricia B. McConnell | ||
| 5869be3 | This tendency to continue exuberant play into adulthood is one of the factors that leads most scientists to consider dogs and humans as "paedomorphic," | Patricia B. McConnell | ||
| 73abd92 | This tendency has led to the suggestion that humans are paedomorphic primates. It's not necessarily a new hypothesis--a man named John Fiske made the argument as early as 1884--but it continues to be a reasonable one. There's more than just our playful nature that suggests eternal youth has played a role in our evolution. One of the defining characteristics of humans is our creativity, our willingness to try new things and new ways of inter.. | Patricia B. McConnell | ||
| 9e43628 | DO THIS, INSTEAD!) SPECIAL TOPICS HOW TO STOP UNWANTED BEHAVIOR Inevitably, at some point | Patricia B. McConnell | ||
| 83b7536 | he pointed out that this vow is the pledge that the husband will make love to his wife and not just use her for sex. H said that the vow expressed the idea that making love is an act of worship. The husband worships his wife with his body, by loving her and giving to her and moving with her toward ecstasy. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 7ef3028 | We humans are in such a strange position--we are still animals whose behavior reflects that of our ancestors, yet we are unique--unlike any other animal on earth. Our distinctiveness separates us and makes it easy to forget where we came from. Perhaps dogs help us remember the depth of our roots, reminding us--the animals at the other end of the leash--that we may be special, but we are not alone. No wonder we call them our best friends. | Patricia B. McConnell | ||
| ab55987 | We are hardwired to remember negative events over positive ones, so we ruminate on our mistakes and the slights of others. Our ability to use language means that we can spend hours mentally criticizing what we did in the past or worrying about what we'll do in the future. No wonder we love dogs, who don't need meditation retreats to get over the shame of getting into the garbage last Thursday. | Patricia B. McConnell | ||
| 9d35dbc | Even in the best of times, when we're not stressed or needy, many of us enjoy petting our dogs as much as any other aspect of dog ownership. This is not a trivial need. Quiet stroking can significantly change your body's physiology, lowering your heart rate and blood pressure. It releases endogenous opiates, or internal chemicals that calm and soothe us and play a significant role in good health. Lucky for us, most of our dogs adore being t.. | Patricia B. McConnell | ||
| 16ab305 | As a matter of fact, the universal tendency of adult domestic dogs to bark is one of the many behavioral markers that suggests that adult dogs are actually a juvenilized version of adult wolves. | Patricia B. McConnell | ||
| aadb7f4 | Always consider the level of competing distractions before you call your dog to come when he's still in training. We find it useful to think of come training like levels of mathematical ability. | Patricia B. McConnell | ||
| b2e19eb | The next time you see a dog you'd like to greet, stop a few feet away, stand sideways rather than straight on, and avoid looking directly into her eyes. Wait for the dog to come all the | Patricia B. McConnell | ||
| 3d08c65 | The barber, cutting the growth, removing the flourishing roots. | Barbers | ||
| d5f119e | she was more determined than ever not to let him break her. She'd been broken before; he had broken her. And she'd sworn in her heart that she would never allow her spirit to be broken again. By anyone. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| f216009 | They shouted, danced, clapped their hands and stomped their feet as they bore witness to the power of Jesus' cross which had given them an identity far more meaningful than the harm that white supremacy could do them. | James H. Cone | ||
| fa904f9 | I don't sleep, have not slept in sixteen years-- | Lawrence Block | ||
| 06296a5 | The cross and the lynching tree interpret each other. Both were public spectacles, shameful events, instruments of punishment reserved for the most despised people in society. Any genuine theology and any genuine preaching of the Christian gospel must be measured against the test of the scandal of the cross and the lynching tree. 'Jesus did not die a gentle death like Socrates, with his cup of hemlock....Rather, he died like a [lynched blac.. | jesus lynching the-cross | James H. Cone | |
| d866bf2 | To be black means that your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body are where the dispossessed are."6 To become black is like what Jesus told Nicodemus, that he must be "born again," that is, "born of water and Spirit" (John 3), the Black Spirit of liberation." | James H. Cone | ||
| 695217d | I wanted to construct a black theology--a theology that would be black like Malcolm and Christian like Martin. | James H. Cone | ||
| a740e0e | I was black before I was a Christian. Martin and Malcolm, therefore, had to go together, which meant being unashamedly black and unapologetically Christian. | James H. Cone | ||
| 772d7d3 | Christian theology is for the liberation of all humanity, and it could never be neutral in the fight against oppression. That much I knew. And that was how A Black Theology of Liberation was born: with the spirit of Martin and Malcolm, Jimmy, and the black poets of the 1960s. | James H. Cone | ||
| 626f2b0 | It never ceased to amaze me how white scholars could quibble, making simple things more complicated than they really were. What is more central in the Christian Bible than the exodus and Jesus stories and the prophetic call for justice for the poor? | James H. Cone | ||
| bd2ff87 | When he sent a manuscript of The Irony of American History to his historian friend Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Schlesinger called Niebuhr's attention to the glaring omission of the Negro: One irony deserving comment somewhere perhaps is the relationship between our democratic and equalitarian pretensions and our treatment of the Negro. This remains, John Quincy Adams called it in 1820, "the great and foul stain upon the North American Union"; a.. | James H. Cone | ||
| d362287 | The cross is a paradoxical religious symbol because it inverts the world's value system with the news that hope comes by way of defeat, that suffering and death do not have the last word, that the last shall be first and the first last. | James H. Cone | ||
| 91729c4 | While Niebuhr agreed, he did not want to throw out "the white man as white man," and asked "whether there is not a leaven in the other classes that would correspond to the light of truth in the despised minority." Baldwin replied that "I don't mean to say the white people are villains or devils or anything like that," but what "I do mean to say is this: that the bulk of the white . . . Christian majority in this country has exhibited a real.. | James H. Cone | ||
| b6025b6 | Transvaluation of values," a term derived from Nietzsche (who derided Christianity's embrace of the weak), is the heart of Niebuhr's perspective on the cross." | James H. Cone | ||
| 9d469f5 | If human power in history--among races, nations, and other collectives as well as individuals--is self-interested power, then "the revelation of divine goodness in history" must be weak and not strong." | James H. Cone | ||
| aba8116 | Just as Martin Luther King Jr. learned much from Reinhold Niebuhr, Niebuhr could have deepened his understanding of the cross by being a student of King and the black freedom movement he led. King could have opened Niebuhr's eyes to see the lynching tree as Jesus' cross in America. White theologians do not normally turn to the black experience to learn about theology. But if the lynching tree is America's cross and if the cross is the heart.. | James H. Cone |