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Saturday, April 24, 2010

So true.

Posted by Hira Animfefte at 4/24/2010 01:30:00 AM 2 comments:
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Memory Eternal, Nelson

Memory Eternal, Nelson
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Hira Animfefte
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I graduated from an Orthodox Christian seminary in May 2009 with an M.Div. (Masters of Divinity). My thesis was on a homily by St Basil the Great called "Why God is not the cause of evil." On November 6th, 2009, around midnight, my aspiring fiance' and the love of my life, Nelson James, succumbed to sudden cardiac arrest. He was a professional violist, violin teacher, part-time seminarian, Rennaissance man, and the best man I ever knew. We were planning to marry. I am mourning his loss, trying to pick up the pieces, and figure out where to go from here. This blog has become my public grief journal. I have another one, written on paper in a notebook, the old fashioned way. This is where I am putting the poems and more public reflections. May the Lord have mercy on me, and give rest to the soul of his servant Nelson James, who is fallen asleep. I have now started a new blog, The Unwedded Widow, to recount my experience of grief. You can find it at http://unweddeddwidow.blogspot.com/.
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Quotes

Death doesn't stop true love. It merely delays it a little.
-Westley to Buttercup, in The Princess Bride

Buttercup: "But what if I never see you again?"
Westley: "Of course you will. This is true love. Do you think this happens every day?"
-The Princess Bride

You had true love. Do you know how rare that is? Only one couple in a thousand has that. And that is why no other man shall suffer as you shall.
-Prince Humperdinck to Westley, just before rendering him 'mostly dead,' in The Princess Bride

Who said life was fair? Where is that written?
-The Grandfather to the Grandson, in The Princess Bride

Life IS pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
-The Man in Black (Westley) to Princess Buttercup, in The Princess Bride

Day will fail me whilst making you see great wisdom in small things.
-St Basil the Great, Hexaemeron (homilies on the six days of creation)

Anything true said by men anywhere belongs to us Christians. -St Justin Martyr, Apologia

It is better for me to die for Christ than to be king over the ends of this earth...The pains of birth are upon me...Suffer me to receive the pure light; when I shall have arrived there, I shall become a human being.
-St Ignatius of Antioch, bishop/martyr

Pathein estin mathein, mathein estin pathein.
To learn is to suffer;to suffer is to learn.
-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (paraphrased)

It was not the old Adam who was a model for the new, but the new Adam for the old...the Savior first and alone showed to us the true human being, who is perfect...
-St Nicholas Cabasilas

The resurrectional life of Christ begins, this side of the grave, in the life of a continual dying to this world...as it stands opposed to God.
-Fr John Behr, The Mystery of Christ, p 100

We are too soon old and too late smart.
-Yiddish saying

Do, or do not. There is no try.
-Yoda, "The Empire Strikes Back"

Love God and your neighbor... who came up with that hogwash? I prefer the mystical ascetic theosis teachings of most uber elder Manakostocorophorus of the holy mount Lavra Caves.
-my friend Ray, on a Facebook Wall

Relax! Everything is functional.
-Fr Paul Tarazi

The Greeks want to be deep. There is no deep! There is only the text!
-wise old OT professor

It's a metaphor! Now the good deacon will write down how many time Ezekiel uses 'like' or 'as.' Keep track, deacon!
-wise old OT professor

If your friend is honey, don't lick him all at once. Save some for the next day.
-wise old OT professor

Is it all perfectly clear? Is that why you're all silent? Good then. Moving on...
-brilliant English patristics professor

It's all very straightforward, really.
-brilliant English patristics professor

Then we get a break for that curious American holiday, Thanksgiving...
-brilliant English patristics professor

It's curious, many of these American sports like baseball, they're girls' sports in England. But go figure.
-brilliant English patristics professor

"Inconceivable!"-Vizzini
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."-Inigo Montoya
-The Princess Bride

Ha ha! You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line! [maniacal laughter][drops dead, falls frozen to right]
-Vizzini, in The Princess Bride


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widda blogs

  • After the fire, the fire still burns
    Different every time
    9 years ago
  • alive and mortal
    You Are Breathing For Two Now
    11 years ago
  • And you may ask yourself-well...how did I get here?
    Help my friend
    10 years ago
  • Andrea Remembers
    Fourteen.
    2 years ago
  • Crash Course Widow
    A bit of a down yo
    6 years ago
  • Fresh Widow
    Awkward: A conversation in year 6 of widowhood
    11 years ago
  • Hole in the Sun
    Hole in the Sun is Moving
    7 years ago
  • Life On Life's Terms
  • Life After Death
  • Loving From the Inside Out
    L is for Love
    12 years ago
  • Paper, Scissors, Keyboard...
    Change of Venue!
    14 years ago
  • Reclaiming Me: A Journey From Grief to Healing
    On Coping (Essay for Class)
    14 years ago
  • Suddenly a Widow
    The Grief Shift
    9 years ago
  • Sunshine In A Blue Cup
    The funny thing about grief....
    6 years ago
  • the art of grief
    hitting a wall
    8 years ago
  • The Melanoma Widow
  • The Widow Lady
    There is a time for all things.
    12 years ago
  • Who am I now?
  • Widow Chick
    WANTED: Widow-Friendly Accountant
    8 years ago
  • Widows Speak Up!
    Good-bye and good luck
    8 years ago
  • Widow's Voice
    Total Mass Confusion~
    9 years ago
  • Young Christian Widow
    Memorial Day Weekend
    13 years ago
  • Young Merry Widow
    relapstionship?
    14 years ago

Blogs of Folks I Know

  • On First Principles
  • Frederica.com
  • Nicki and Dusty
  • Life in Underserved Medicine
  • Everything Down the Chute
  • Bonovox
  • Wise Serpents
  • Musings
  • First Principles
  • Wurm's Eye View
  • Eighth Day Photography
  • Eighth Day Photography (on blogspot)
  • Confessing Between the Lines (on blogspot)
  • Confessing Between the Lines

Bloglit links

  • Alex D.'s blog
  • Annie-Where-But-Here's blog: Annie's Way
  • ASK's blog: If you don't ASK...[ASK= elfbrains]
  • ASK's karaoke site: All Starz Karaoke
  • Aunt Nancy's blog: Pickle Street Creations
  • Bismuth's Outlet
  • Brian B.'s family blog
  • Christoblog
  • Crash's blog: The Forlorn Tales of a Pink Flamingo Lawn Ornament
  • Deontology: Deon[tologist]'s blog
  • Doug's blog
  • Golfwidow's Ministry of Silly Walks
  • Graz didn't do it...he was just in the area. [Graz' blog]
  • Higgy's Blog
  • judi's music forum: The Crow's Nest
  • Kaf's Corner
  • KDF's blog: Why Would I Sleep?
  • Lab Specimen's blog: Snarktopia.com
  • Leetie's band Tacocat
  • Leetie's blog
  • Leetie's old xanga blog
  • Mad Scientist's Lab
  • Marie in Barcelona's blog: Il Dolce Far Niente
  • MeL's blogspot blog [old blog]
  • MeL's xanga blog [current blog]
  • Neophyte's blog: Neo's Nothings
  • P.I. Files: Day to day life of Polly the P.I.
  • Peri's Wrinkle
  • Punky's Myspace page
  • Punky's old blog: Pink Emerson Radio
  • Rita's blog: Keeping Knit Simple
  • Sharon Share-alike's website
  • sittin on the swing with southerngirl
  • slyeyes' ramblings
  • Susan's radio station, WRCE Radio [Click on 'Listen to WRCE Radio Live!' to listen in.]
  • Talks with Daughter: Tamara Rhymes With Camera's blog
  • Trillian's Blog
  • Weasel's Den [Mike Weasel's blogspot blog]
  • Weasel's Den [Mike Weasel's worldcrossing forum]
  • Wolfie's Den
  • WriterDude's blog: The Occasionally Worthwhile Ramblings of a Sometimes Outraged Mind
  • Wurm's Eye View
  • wysiwyg's blog: No, I Am Not Claire Martin
  • wysiwyg's other blog: Things My Dog Has Chewed

Ortho-links/Ortho-blogs (in no particular order)

  • Notes on Arab Orthodoxy
  • Leitourgia kai Qurbana
  • Perk's Pen
  • photismos
  • Pilate's Question
  • Qatl Qitl Qutl
  • Blogoslovi
  • Orthodox Monk
  • Analogion
  • Orrologion
  • OBL Articles (International Orthodox Christian news)
  • ocanews.org
  • The Ochlophobist
  • Logoimoi
  • Ad Orientam
  • Orthodoxblogs.com (blog aggregator)
  • Monachos.net
  • This is Life! Reflections around a cruciform axis
  • Fr Peter-Michael Preble
  • Noetic Toe
  • Saint James' Kids
  • Bigger than a Breadbox
  • Fr John Whiteford's News, Comments, & Reflections
  • Crunchy Con
  • Paradosis
  • The Ebb and Flow of Consciousness
  • Laura's Front Porch
  • Khanya
  • Notes from Underground
  • OrthodoxWiki
  • The Onion Dome
  • The Orthodork Cafe
  • Traveling East
  • Oh Taste and See
  • St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary
  • The Orthodox Church in America
  • The Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese
  • The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese

Armenian links

  • Armeniapedia.org- the Armenian wiki
  • the Armenian National Institute: dedicated to the study, research, and affirmation of the Armenian Genocide
  • Groong: the Armenian News Network
  • Hetq Online: Investigative Journalists of Armenia
  • Life in Armenia (Diaspora Armenians in Armenia)
  • Life as I see it(a Dutch woman in Armenia)
  • Expat Life in Armenia
  • Oneworld Multimedia Blog (Omnik Krikorian)
  • Inch es asum?! (Glendale Chick's blog)
  • Public Secrets

other sites of interest

  • New York Magazine
  • Letterman's Top Ten List
  • Hardly the Last Word (newer version)
  • Hardly the Last Word (Wordpress)
  • A Public Defender's Life in Alaska
  • Paradoxology
  • Journal Extime
  • EcoGeek: Technology for the Environment

Funny sites

  • Awful Plastic Surgery [note: not always funny]
  • Bad Vestments
  • Cake Wrecks
  • Church of the Flying Spagetti Monster
  • Dave Barry's Blog
  • David Letterman
  • Dilbert.com
  • FAIL Blog
  • Go Fug Yourself (old site, on typepad)
  • Go Fug Yourself (current site, on celebuzz)
  • Lileks
  • Lovely Listings [real estate. funny.]
  • New York Fugging City
  • Overheard in New York
  • Overheard in the Office
  • Pajiba
  • Stuff White People Like
  • superdickery.com [comic book covers. funny.]
  • The Borowitz Report
  • The Onion
  • Weight Watchers recipe cards, circa 1974

still more blogs I like

  • A Writing Life
    When Five Years Doesn't Seem So Very Long After All
    10 years ago
  • Brillig
    Oscars 2020
    4 years ago
  • By Ken Levine
    Episode 326: The WGA Strike
    1 year ago
  • Chef Reinvented
    Hurricane Sandy Recipe: Nacho Best Move
    12 years ago
  • Crève!
  • Fanboy Wife
    All Star Comics #8
    9 years ago
  • Finding My Way
    Review: Raspberries and Retaliation
    1 year ago
  • First Principles
    Our Great Denial
    17 years ago
  • Leitourgeia kai Qurbana: Contra den Zeitgeist
    What did you do on #elevennine?
    8 years ago
  • Literary Rejections on Display
    Long COVID Canary: Meditation Edition
    1 year ago
  • No One Reads The Copy
    My Felicity Moment
    12 years ago
  • Notes from underground
    Phil Rickman, Charles Williams, and Powers of Evil
    4 days ago
  • November In My Soul
    Contraband
    12 years ago
  • Oh Taste and See
    A Farewell
    12 years ago
  • OxyJen
    Chris Eldin, a Light Snuffed
    11 years ago
  • Prodigal Son
    The Incarnation: Act of Love, Act of Salvation
    12 years ago
  • Rachelle Gardner, Literary Agent
    New Release Spotlight: Amber Wardell
    1 month ago
  • Saint James' Kids
  • Sia McKye's Thoughts...OVER COFFEE
    BEES, MEAD, AND MEDIEVAL ROMANCE
    9 years ago
  • Simone Says...
    [Best Review] Simple CPA Siphon Review – Powerful CPA Methods To Drive Thousands Of Visitor To CPA Offers Using Video Youtube and Generate Profits in Any Niche
    9 years ago
  • St. Luke Orthodox Church in McLean, VA
    16 years ago
  • The Gourmet Pig
    sehat alami, rumah minimalis dan fashion model
    8 years ago
  • The Ochlophobist
    10 years ago
  • The Paper Tiger
    Under the dome...
    9 years ago
  • The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks
    Book Recommendation: Heaven's Forgotten
    9 years ago
  • Tiny Little Stones
    Of the demons
    13 years ago
  • Triablogue
    Matthew As A Source On Jesus' Childhood
    2 days ago
  • VagantePriest
    Homily for Epiphany Sunday, January 5, 2020
    4 years ago
  • WiseSerpents
    A great quote on Orthodox/Catholic unity
    15 years ago

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