Richard Bleakley

I'm Rick Bleakley, I live in Belfast N. ireland. I'm a web designer/developer, IT support consultant and musician.

I have lately discovered God in a new and very real way. Very different than I had ever previously conceived.

This is my personal blog, though I don't post much here. Visit my business web site at blackdogmedia.co.uk

A plan (anon)

1 week ago

There’s a plan, see? A plan. It’s not the written type of plan, with a start and an end, but it has some sort of diagram, some kind of destiny. I can’t quite put a name to it, and I can’t tell you what the end might look like.

The thing is this; that so often (I imagine) people breeze through their lives and at one point in particular they are struck by the profundity of their creation. What a shame that this little moment isn’t on record for all to see.

You see, I imagine myself pouring over historic records. Delving in to the deepest recesses of my relative’s thoughts, discovering the wildness of their spirit, and the adventure in their heart.

What a dream.

That I might be that relative. That I might forge a path so brazen, so unimaginable.

Please God, help me find that path. What a dream that would be.

~anonymous

Quote

2 weeks ago | Notes: 3345

"
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference
"

- The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost (via quote-book)

Source: quote-book

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3 weeks ago

This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.
~WALT WHITMAN

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3 weeks ago

Cool video idea http://vimeo.com/m/34340906