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The Junk Drawer - 7.28.2010 - Stuff on my Desk Edition


Things I have put up at my desk:

On top my computer:  a BRoy bobblehead, a Rudy bobblehead, a little Jesus figure that my boss found at a dollar store, and rubber eraser shaped like a devil duck.

On my desk:  a picture of my niece.  a picture i took in Cique Terra.

Posted on the cubicle wall:  a postcard of a Van Gough I bought at a museum in Amesterdam, a postcard of a painting by an artist who's hand built museum we visited in the western desert of Egypt, a post card shaped like the Oregon coast.  a peanuts cartoon where the punch line is "what kind of a question is that?".  a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon about academia, one of those test questions with funny answers where the kid wrote "use calculus to find the identity of Batman" and then drew batman and bruce wayne.  The "cat fud" Far Side cartoon.  One of those Oregon bumper stickers with the green heart.  a stuffed penguin with that "Vote for LaMarcus" pin they handed out at a home opener a year ago or so.  a rubber wristband that says "irony".  a picture of Bucky that cat that says "toughness oozes from me like clearasil on picture day..." a calander.  a picture from an old car ad from when i sold vehicles from a poster that said "stay calm"  the picture is an outline of a guy with flames around his head.  various Blazer stickers.  A stuffed monkey with a woot cape.  a picture that says "warning! if the help desk thinks your question is stupid, we sill set you on fire."  a dharma swan station sticker.  a little dharma pin with a wrench on it.  another little dharma sticker (those dharma things were from appreciative teachers who are also Lost fans.)  And, lastly, the following quotations:

"To say what you mean is an art....To mean what you say is a virtue."  anonymous

"Let us say we are moles and we object to mountain peaks." - Ayn Rand The Fountainhead

1Corinthians 3:13-15 all typed out.

the following poem from Sanskrit, a favorite of my late grandfather:

Listen to the exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!  For it is Life, The Very Life of
Life.
In is brief course lie all the Verities And Realities
of your Existence;
  The Bliss of Growth,
  The Glory of Action,
  The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived
Makes every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every To-morrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn.

 

and, finally, the Prayer of St. Francis:

 

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love
Where there is injury, pardon
Where there is doubt, faith
Where there is despair, hope
Where there is darkness, light
And where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master,Grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned
It is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Amen

 

and that's it.