off i go...

off i go... Originally uploaded by jdthinker

from today's catextism: prayer is asking for rain. faith is carrying the umbrella. i like that... helps me keep the faith on this trek i'm journeying to... it sure is lovely to walk in the rain with someone... it seems pretty lonely if you're splashing in puddles alone...

culture hunt

" our memories reach back no further than yesterday; we are, as it were, strangers to ourselves.... that is but a natural consequence to a culture that consists entirely of imports and imitation... we absorb all our ideas ready-made, and therefore the indelible trace left in the mind by a progressive movement of ideas, which gives strength, does not shape our intellect... we are like children who have not been taught to think for themselves: when they become adults, they have nothing of their own --- all their knowledge is on the surface of their being, their soul is not within them " ---pyotr chaadaev --- this is taken from the foreword by randolf s. david in the book kapwa-the self in the other by katrin m. de guia i have yet to read it fully... and in reading it, i hope to find an answer to this cultural hunt of mine...

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