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I am Mike Noakes.
That is was my pipe.
This is my blog.
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(about me)

(thoughts)

"Before the beautiful-no, not really before but within the beautiful-the whole person quivers. He not only 'finds' the beautiful moving; rather, he experiences himself as being moved and possessed by it."
- Hans Urs von Balthasar

"Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
- Flannery o'Connor

"Christians are called to leave behind, in the tomb of Jesus Christ, all that belongs to the brokenness and incompleteness of the present world. It is time, in the power of the Spirit, to take up our proper role, our fully human role, as agents, heralds, stewards of the new day that is dawning."
- NT Wright

"When we think our brother or sister has sinned against us, such an affront is not just against us but against the whole community. A community established as peaceful cannot afford to let us relish our sense of being wronged without exposing that wrong in the hopes of reconciliation."
- Stan Hauerwas

"Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments."
- Thomas Merton

"All the believers were of one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possesions was their own, but they shared everything that they had."
- Acts of the Apostles

"For evil men account those things alone evil which do not make men evil; neither do they blush to praise good things, and yet to remain evil among the good things they praise. It grieves them more to own a bad house than a bad life, as if it were man's greatest good to have everything good but himself."
- St. Augustine

(reading)

The Eucharist of the Early Christians

The Collected Short Stories, Flannery o'Connor

The Kingdom of God is Within You, Tolstoy

(have read)

Crossing the Threshold of Hope, Pope John Paul II

God is Near Us, Pope Benedict XVI

Heretics/Orthodoxy, GK Chesterton

Sonnets from the Portuguese, Elizabeth Barret Browning

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(spirituality)

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(good books)

Saturday, July 08, 2006

IM me, please...

(I want corn)

AIM: TickleMeVelma

MSN: Potatocore@hotmail.com

I know you want to.

I "met" Rob today. Yes, you muct read his blog. There are more of us, the seventeen year-old bloggers, out there. We're going to invade the minds, hearts, and gastro-intestinal tracts of all America and maybe even the world. Big dream. Big ambitions.

Big skills.

[Update: For all of you who care to know, yes, my toenails are once again painted. Glorious. It is a wonderful Royal Purple with metalic sparklies inside to make it look just fab. Alright. I am done now. IM me for more crazy details of my life that you are just dying to know...]

posted by -mike- at 4:02 PM

 

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