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Friar Jeffrey

we take and take and take

About Me

www.xanga.com/oliveme...my life for over two years

My Interests

candles, incense, walks, breathing, music that hits the spot, reading, mystery

Music:

it's always in my head.........

Movies:

I heart huckabees, amelie, eternal sunshine, what the bleep do we know, pee wee's big adventure, american beauty, american history X, shawshank redemption, story of us, kids in the hall brain candy, virgin suicides, elizabethtown, what about bob

Television:

it rots your brain...

Books:

i like bill watterson, kurt vonnegut, donald miller, c.s. lewis, david sedaris, douglas coupland, chuck palahniuk, mike yaconelli, thomas merton, fenelon

Heroes:

francis of assisi, mike ness

My Blog

we will meet where dreams leave off

i just saw some pictures of my first real girlfriend and now i think i need to go buy something. she is married, of course, to the guy she swore didn't have a crush on her while we were dating. it is ...
Posted by Friar Jeffrey on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:07:00 PST

random thoughts

random thoughts, august 7, 2006:it feels as though honesty is so hard because it is not always pretty. if it was always pretty, we would have no problem opening our hearts and becoming the open books ...
Posted by Friar Jeffrey on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 07:03:00 PST

from my heart to outer space, this is where this falls

well, it's true that i'm looking for love all around me. and it's true that she had these eyes likes a canyon. i kept climbing and climbing to see where they got me. but i ended up lost with no sign o...
Posted by Friar Jeffrey on Fri, 07 Jul 2006 11:34:00 PST

a fall, a confusion, and a way out

so this is now, and that was then. i don't ever want to go through pain again. but i know it's crouching right around the bend. it makes me quite aware, i'm not like other men. because i cry when i'm ...
Posted by Friar Jeffrey on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 09:09:00 PST

i've hit greatness and it knocked me out

so check this out. there are about a million things going on around us that we never ever see. and i guess that sometimes when we do see them, we dimiss them in our feeble attempts to keep going going...
Posted by Friar Jeffrey on Sat, 27 May 2006 09:20:00 PST

i have found it (nothing)

if there is a lower rung i have found it. for me, it is better to retreat to anywhere safe instead of bearing the horribleness of certain moments. wishing and dreaming become hoping and praying, and e...
Posted by Friar Jeffrey on Tue, 23 May 2006 10:56:00 PST

mountains and plains and hippies and energy drinks

these mountains that seem to last forever cannot, at first glance, seem to share their secrets with the human world. it's the earth, in all of it's beauty that seems to be constant, pure, a...
Posted by Friar Jeffrey on Fri, 12 May 2006 12:19:00 PST

toy store

we're looking for everything that we know that we don't want. inside of trash cans we rummage for our souls. and all these i'm sorrys and forgive me's just ring in my ears now. with empty words come e...
Posted by Friar Jeffrey on Sat, 29 Apr 2006 06:32:00 PST

these latter days

again, this is always fitting. thanks over the rhine."What a beautiful piece of heartache this has all turned out to be.Lord knows we've learned the hard way all about healthy apathy.And I use these w...
Posted by Friar Jeffrey on Fri, 28 Apr 2006 12:18:00 PST

they have tanks and we shoot blanks

i think this night made everything right. this feeling hasn't left and i don't know where it came from. slipped in the back door that we always leave open. coating with joy everything we could hope in...
Posted by Friar Jeffrey on Fri, 28 Apr 2006 04:12:00 PST