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Self portrait
pencil drawing
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
Kerouac
Genius gives birth, talent delivers -Jack Kerouac
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
Dillard
There is no one but us. There is no one to send, not a clean hand or a pure heart on the face of the earth or in the earth—only us…...
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
the rain
He maketh His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends the rain on the just and the unjust. -math 5:45
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
Buson
Fallen petals of red plum—. they seem to be burning. on clods of horse shit. -Yosa Buson
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
A wave of light.
Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness. It strikes us when we walk through the dark valley of a meaningless and...
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
Sam Baker
May 2, 20190 min read
The Big Bend.
Photograph
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
This word.
This word is a hidden word and comes in the darkness of the night. To enter this darkness put away all voices and sounds all images and...
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
St. Thérèse of Lisieux
I know God comes rushing toward me. -St. Thérèse of Lisieux
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
Merton
We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. -Thomas Merton
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
Sam Baker
May 2, 20190 min read
Sam Baker
May 2, 20190 min read
An act of courage.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. –Seneca
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
Music
Without music life would be a mistake. -nietzche
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
Churchill
"There is nothing so exhilarating in life as to be shot at without effect." - Winston Churchill
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
Truth
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie—deliberate, contrived, and dishonest—but the myth—persistent, persuasive, and...
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
Inward
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. -Aristotle
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
the Absolute
The world is filled, and filled with the Absolute-To see this is to be made free. - Teilhard de Chardin
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
Rumi
There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground. -Rumi
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
also there is some kind of member thing going on that I don't understand. it will get fixed. I don't want a membership thing so please don't sign up. I am not sure what it does. ughh.
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