good ol jd...
no no not the booze...jd salinger the author of catcher in the the rye. finished up this book on my way to the water park yesterday and there were some great things in it that i thought i should share with you.
*i was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. thats the things about girls. every time they do something pretty even if theyre not much to look at or even if theyre sort of stupid you fall half in love with them and then you never know where the hell you are. girls jeez they can drive you crazy they really can. *
holden caulfield knew what he was talking about
*its funny all you have to do is something that nobody understands and theyll do practically anything you want them to.* so when you are in a jam all you have to do is act like you have a bum leg and say something wierd about it and then you get by in life you get what you want. hummmm i guess ill have to try this one out.
*among other things youll find that youre not the first person who was ever confused and freightened and even sickened by human behaviour youre by no means alone on that score, youll be excited and stimulated to know man many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. happily some of them kept records of their troubles youll learn from them if you want to just as someday if you have something to offer someone will learn something from you. its a beautiful recipricol arrangement and it isnt education its history! its poetry!* this one killed me cause i was talking to leland tonight about mentorship and how i think that it is necessary for young guys to find people who will invest in them and who will poor thier lives into them so that the young guys can learn to bare the torch and live a life that will benefit the generations to come. leland has been someone that has inversted in me and i really appreaciate him. more than he will ever know im sure.
*something else and academic education will do for you if you fo along with it any considerable distance , itll begin to give you an idea what size mind you havee. what itll fit and maybe what it wont. after a whileyoull have an idea what kind of thoughts your particular size mind should be wearing. for one thing it mar save you an extraordinary amount of time trying on ideas that dsont suit you, arent becoming to you. youll begin to know your true measurememnts and dress your mind accordingly.* i thought this was a good quote and i think it is one that makes me want to read more books and try on more ideas so that i can dress my mind accordingly so i can know the size and measure of whats in my head. i think that God gave us brains and i want to stretch and work mine into something that is honoring to him. that means you gotta work it out.
*everytime id get to the end of a block id make believe i was talking to my brother allie id say to him " allie dont let me disappear allie dont let me disappear allie dont let me disappear please allie" and then when id reach the other side of the street with out disappearing id thank him.* i just liked this part of the book cause it was close to the end when everything was really falling to pieces. its funny the things you start to think whenever you feel like you are loosing it. whenever you feel like you are disapearing.
*dont ever tell anybody anything if you do you start missing every body!* why this quote? well its the last line of the book and i think that it makes me think of my time here in williston kinda. right now i am telling the stories of this other life i lived in missouri and soon enough it could be stories about the life that i lived in williston. the same way i miss pondo these huge chunks of my life and they are all spread out over the uninted states. and the stories i tell keep them close to my heart. everytime i bring up a memory i think about places i lived and loved and i know there is still a part of me there.
sorry i didnt mean to get all sentamental. had fun at teh water park and the gross games were well gross and why north dakotans think its fun to play games with a cow heart is beyond me... the kids had fun in the mudd pitt but not too fond of the games. i got pretty muddy and that was the part i liked best also.
i was looking forward to coming home to get an e mail or a letter or somethign but when i got here there wasnt anything and i felt a little sad but i got over it. im tired and im going to bed.
*i was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. thats the things about girls. every time they do something pretty even if theyre not much to look at or even if theyre sort of stupid you fall half in love with them and then you never know where the hell you are. girls jeez they can drive you crazy they really can. *
holden caulfield knew what he was talking about
*its funny all you have to do is something that nobody understands and theyll do practically anything you want them to.* so when you are in a jam all you have to do is act like you have a bum leg and say something wierd about it and then you get by in life you get what you want. hummmm i guess ill have to try this one out.
*among other things youll find that youre not the first person who was ever confused and freightened and even sickened by human behaviour youre by no means alone on that score, youll be excited and stimulated to know man many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. happily some of them kept records of their troubles youll learn from them if you want to just as someday if you have something to offer someone will learn something from you. its a beautiful recipricol arrangement and it isnt education its history! its poetry!* this one killed me cause i was talking to leland tonight about mentorship and how i think that it is necessary for young guys to find people who will invest in them and who will poor thier lives into them so that the young guys can learn to bare the torch and live a life that will benefit the generations to come. leland has been someone that has inversted in me and i really appreaciate him. more than he will ever know im sure.
*something else and academic education will do for you if you fo along with it any considerable distance , itll begin to give you an idea what size mind you havee. what itll fit and maybe what it wont. after a whileyoull have an idea what kind of thoughts your particular size mind should be wearing. for one thing it mar save you an extraordinary amount of time trying on ideas that dsont suit you, arent becoming to you. youll begin to know your true measurememnts and dress your mind accordingly.* i thought this was a good quote and i think it is one that makes me want to read more books and try on more ideas so that i can dress my mind accordingly so i can know the size and measure of whats in my head. i think that God gave us brains and i want to stretch and work mine into something that is honoring to him. that means you gotta work it out.
*everytime id get to the end of a block id make believe i was talking to my brother allie id say to him " allie dont let me disappear allie dont let me disappear allie dont let me disappear please allie" and then when id reach the other side of the street with out disappearing id thank him.* i just liked this part of the book cause it was close to the end when everything was really falling to pieces. its funny the things you start to think whenever you feel like you are loosing it. whenever you feel like you are disapearing.
*dont ever tell anybody anything if you do you start missing every body!* why this quote? well its the last line of the book and i think that it makes me think of my time here in williston kinda. right now i am telling the stories of this other life i lived in missouri and soon enough it could be stories about the life that i lived in williston. the same way i miss pondo these huge chunks of my life and they are all spread out over the uninted states. and the stories i tell keep them close to my heart. everytime i bring up a memory i think about places i lived and loved and i know there is still a part of me there.
sorry i didnt mean to get all sentamental. had fun at teh water park and the gross games were well gross and why north dakotans think its fun to play games with a cow heart is beyond me... the kids had fun in the mudd pitt but not too fond of the games. i got pretty muddy and that was the part i liked best also.
i was looking forward to coming home to get an e mail or a letter or somethign but when i got here there wasnt anything and i felt a little sad but i got over it. im tired and im going to bed.
posted by fountainstylerootbeer at 7:36 PM
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you didn't leave me an email...it's only fair that i didn't leave you one....i wish i could call tonight, but you will be at church....*sigh*....mud, cow heart?! man i hope that's in the paper you are writing for me!! ha ha...
I love reading about other peoples lives and what they are reading at the time, it is an encouragement.
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