Todd Dierks:
CLASS OF 1979
Clinton High SchoolClass of 1979
Clinton, IA
Todd's Story
Todd is from Clinton, Iowa. Todd's schools include Clinton High School. Todd later attended Carlson College of Massage Therapy, Iowa State University. Todd works(ed) at Center For Neuromuscular Therapy, Center For Neuromuscular Therapy.
Books Todd likes include The Old Farmers Almanac, Buddhist Boot Camp, Farmers' Almanac. Movies Todd likes include DMT: The Spirit Molecule, Beware of Images, Food Inc. TV shows Todd likes include RT, Don't Have One, Austin City Limits.
One of Todd's favorite quotes is:"I want my will, and I want simply to be with my will as it moves towards deed, and in those quiet, somehow hardly moving times, when something is approaching, I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone. I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make every moment holy. -(apologies to Rilke)
Areté implies a respect for the wholeness or oneness of life, and a consequent dislike of specialization. It implies a contempt for efficiency--or rather a much higher idea of efficiency, an efficiency which exists not in one department of life but in life itself. -H.D.F. Kitto
When you set out for Ithaka
pray that your road's a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery. -C.P. Cavafy
This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. -Psalm 118:24
Do not imagine that the journey is short; and one must have the heart of a lion to follow this unusual road, for it is very long and the sea is deep. One plods along in the state of amazement, sometimes smiling, sometimes weeping. -Farid Al-Din Attar
The brooks laugh louder when I come,
The breezes madder play.
Wherefore, mine eyes, thy silver mists?
Wherefore, O summer's day? -Emily
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Wo...Expand for more
rd was God. -John 1:1
In the town of Kowata,
There were horses to hire,
But I loved you so much
I walked barefoot all the way. -Kan'ami
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. -Nabokov
Waited for you along the road, I did -
Silent, silent, walking alone
but today again the darkness falls -Gensei
God instructs the heart, not by ideas, but by pains and contradictions. -De Caussade
You, however, take delight in the ship, despoiling the lake with sails. I will go down to the deep. Plunge, thaw, go blind, become ice. -W.G.Sebald
Once I used a salamander from under an old log. The salamander was very small and neat and agile and a lovely color. He had tiny feet that tried to hold on to the hook, and after that one time I never used a salamander, although I found them very often. -Hemingway
When is a pilgrim like a photograph? When the blend of acids and sentiments is just right. -Anne Carson
A finely tempered nature longs to escape from his noisy cramped surroundings into the silence of high mountains where the eye ranges freely through the still pure air and fondly traces out the restful contours apparently built for eternity. -Einstein
Till recently I stayed at Cold Mountain,
yesterday I called on friends and family,
more than half had gone to Yellow Springs,
now morning I face my lone shadow,
I can't study with both eyes full of tears. -Han Shan
Y la paloma volvió a él a la hora de la tarde. -Génesis 8:11
Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose. -Paul Bowles
of those who make the journey no news returns -Sufi wisdom
you are home - Penny Lane".
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