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Archives for February 2010

One Year

by Bryan Strawser · Feb 26, 2010

It’s been almost an entire year, almost to the hour as I write this, since Galadriel passed away.

Six months ago, I tried to write about how I felt at that point, and utterly failed.

But in many ways, that posting wasn’t an utter failure, because everything that I wrote in it was true.

I still look for her.. In fact, this very morning, before the fogginess had lifted from my brain, I was wondering where she was when I woke up.

I still mourn her.

A few days ago, I downloaded the video for I will follow you into the Dark by Death Cab for Cutie. I could only watch about thirty seconds of the video, featuring a pair of rabbits who grow old and then pass away together, before I broke down.

One year later, I still cry.

Filed Under: Deep Thoughts, Family

John Galt Speaking

by Bryan Strawser · Feb 9, 2010

The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it’s yours. But to win it requires total dedication and a total break with the world of your past, with the doctrine that man is sacrificial animal who exists for the pleasure of others. Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence, which is man, for his sovereign rational mind. Fight with the radiant certainty and the absolute rectitude of knowing that yours is the morality of life and yours is the battle for any achievement, any value, any grandeur, any goodness, any joy that has ever existed on this earth.

– Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

Filed Under: Deep Thoughts, Quotes

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