Quotes from Theatre Appreciation

By concentrating on the bigger picture rather than your individual role, you get farther and farther away from your role, harming the bigger picture.

Passion is what makes goals achievable.

Until June

Meggar posted something on Michael Buble so I feel like posting something on Until June. :)

"Until June is quietly conquering the music world... The indie-cool-meets-pop sounds created by trio Josh Ballard, Dan Ballard and Daniel Dempsey offer a fresh take on the term piano rock. With a #1 single in Greece and extensive touring in the U.S., Southeast Asia and the Mediterranean under their belts, UJ is steadily amassing a loyal alliance of believers worldwide who are eager to share their discovery. Melodic falsettos belted out over lush rock instrumentation provide the perfect paradox of sound that almost feels like a guilty pleasure.

Until June released their new EP Sound of Defeat on Authentik Artists on May 19, 2009 and will be touring internationally throughout the year."

- PureVolume

The Game of Life

Today in Theatre, our teacher had us do a 'check-in' where we were to use a board game as a metaphor for our lives right now.

I used the game Clue. I have watched about three Sherlock Holmes movies in the past three days, and I have started reading Conan Doyle again.

But the real reason I used Clue was because I am waiting on information in order to make decisions in my life.

Oratio Sancti Francisci

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.

Amen.


Domine, fac me servum pacis tuae,
ubi odium, amorem seram;
ubi iniuria, veniam;
ubi dubium, fidem;
ubi desperatio, spem;
ubi caligo, lucem;
ubi tristitia, laetitiam.

O Domine coelestis, concede mihi ut ne tam petam
consolari quam consolare,
intellegi quam intelligere,
amari quam amare.

Nam in dando recipimus,
in ignoscendo ignoscimur,
et in moriendo ad vitam aeternam nascimur.

Amen.

Plain Truth

"If you're afraid of everyone leaving you, what do you do?"

"Make them stay."

"And if you can't do that, or don't know how to?"

"I don't know."

"Yes, you do. In fact, you've done it. You leave first, so you don't have to watch them walk away."


-Coop and Ellie from "Plain Truth" by Jodi Piccoult

Gifts

Imagine making a gift for someone and pouring your blood, sweat, tears, time, your very self into this gift. It becomes a representation of you. You give this gift to the person you made it for, and they take the gift and walk away, without so much as a thank you. They are so enthralled with the gift that they forget the giver.

God gives people to us, friends and family. They greatest gifts receive in our lives. Sometimes we come to love them and forget their Maker, we appreciate them without appreciating Him Who gave them to us. And sometimes, God takes them away from us, because He loves us so much, so that we will remember Him.

- A homily by Fr. Anthony Ouellette