"...If there is anything virtuous, lovely, of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things."
Joseph Smith included this little line when writing to a reporter the truncated version of who Mormons are and what they believe. I learned this and many other verses by rote as a child and in the years since have found new meaning in those phrases and scriptures, often by surprise.
I am creating this space because I have a strong appetite for beauty. I tend to devour life, often swallowing whole swaths of rubbish to find a bite of divinity. (Literal or figurative. I LOVE divinity.) My appetites often get me in trouble, and I want to create a place for myself where I can fill up, up, up with unadulterated goodness and leave with no regret. All of the flavor, none of the calories.
The things that come to mind for this collection: new words and phrases I've discovered, songs, recipes, pictures of this life, dreams and wonderings about the next, new insights into old ideas, travel treasures, witty people, and the inevitable despairing monologues as I come to pull myself back together from whatever has knocked me off my wall.
No promises about anything, and I shall enjoy my anonymity for as long as I can. If you find me and want to add something to my collection, you are quite welcome.
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