Filed under: Beautiful men.
“The intentional community idea assumes that when you say love your neighbor as yourself you have some kind of right to go out and pick your neighbor. I think that the ideal of loving your neighbor has to take on the possibility that he may be somebody you’re going to have great difficulty loving or liking or even tolerating.”
And,
Here it seems to me you have a strange thing. You have young people who want world peace but don’t want to learn anybody else’s language. A young fellow came up to me after one of those meetings and said, “I’ve never had a foreign language and I want you to tell me why I should take French. I’m studying agriculture, not literature.” “Well,” I said, “if you don’t know, I can’t tell you. That’s why you take French for two or three or four years, to learn why you should take it.”
- Wendell Berry
Read the rest of his interview here.
Dear ______ school,
I’ve noticed you and your fine qualities for some weeks now. Although this may seem sudden, I think I may be the one for you.
You have beauty and brains all in one amazing package. You are mature, ambitious, well-established, dedicated to the philosophical habit of mind, a good provider. I even like your parents. When I read your founding documents my pulse quickens and I long to embody your purpose statement. I will be there for you every day, I will plan fun things for us to do together, I will tell you and everyone I know how wonderful you are. I want to wake up to you every morning and rear your beautiful children, so tell me when I can sign on the dotted line to love, honor, and obey.
I know this is a big commitment, so I’m not asking you to decide right now, but please give me a chance – I love you and life without you would be a barren wasteland.
XOXOXOXOXOX,
Me
