hi. my name’s nick. i’m a video editor at droga5 and waverly films. Also, half of best roof talk ever. I like soul music, taking photos, new york, pop culture, design, comedy, wisdom and general internet mayhem. → main site→ email me → rss   → archiveTumblr (3.0; @nickdivers)http://blog.nickdivers.com/“We have defined freedom in the West as the freedom to choose between options and preferences. That’s not primal freedom. That’s a secondary or even tertiary freedom. The primal freedom is the freedom to be the self, the freedom to live in the truth despite all circumstances. Secular freedom is having to do what you want to do. Religious freedom is wanting to do what you have to do.”<br/><br/> - <em>Richard Rohr, Everything Belongs</em>http://blog.nickdivers.com/post/16729561043http://blog.nickdivers.com/post/16729561043Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:34:28 -0500<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly9kn8mSge1qzpsapo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Even at age 26, I still put my head in these things and yell “HELLRAISER”</p>http://blog.nickdivers.com/post/16357086077http://blog.nickdivers.com/post/16357086077Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:28:20 -0500 Erissa: nice commercial<br /> me: thank<br /> Erissa: haha "thank"http://blog.nickdivers.com/post/15305320788http://blog.nickdivers.com/post/15305320788Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:21:18 -0500already working“Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves. To even ask the question, ‘Am I humble?’ is to not be so.”<br/><br/> - <em>Tim Keller</em>http://blog.nickdivers.com/post/15259050920http://blog.nickdivers.com/post/15259050920Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:18:00 -0500ah crap<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx7dcs3sQu1qzpsapo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>I would expect nothing less from you two jokers.</p>http://blog.nickdivers.com/post/15221087602http://blog.nickdivers.com/post/15221087602Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:22:03 -0500<p>Oh man!</p> <p>My gut would say Nina but with Etta James in the news lately for declining health, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1uunRdQ61M">my heart is with her</a>.</p>http://blog.nickdivers.com/post/15220922261http://blog.nickdivers.com/post/15220922261Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:19:03 -0500<p>Yes.</p> <p>Which is also my favorite thing about pizza.</p>http://blog.nickdivers.com/post/15220535296http://blog.nickdivers.com/post/15220535296Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:11:57 -0500<p>It never calls.</p>http://blog.nickdivers.com/post/15220341835http://blog.nickdivers.com/post/15220341835Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:08:25 -0500<p>It never doesn’t call you back.</p>http://blog.nickdivers.com/post/15220131798http://blog.nickdivers.com/post/15220131798Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:04:33 -0500<p>Tie between Titanic 3D and your broken laptop.</p>http://blog.nickdivers.com/post/15219859623http://blog.nickdivers.com/post/15219859623Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:59:36 -0500<p>You misspelled FML</p>http://blog.nickdivers.com/post/15219605767http://blog.nickdivers.com/post/15219605767Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:55:00 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx6h26BPAK1qzpsapo1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://blog.nickdivers.com/post/15184861388http://blog.nickdivers.com/post/15184861388Mon, 02 Jan 2012 10:44:30 -05002012<iframe width="400" height="299" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/v2amKYQ8EgA?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p><strong>“Insane Lullaby” from </strong><em><strong><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CB8QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fopen.spotify.com%2Falbum%2F0DmKQGWmKXQ3zmjTIQQzK1&ei=lzMBT4TwBuHn0QGh0uCOBw&usg=AFQjCNH4-AWlRxqih_aM9Smleb7jWZe6Zw">Dark Night Of The Soul</a></strong></em></p> <p><em>The term “dark night (of the soul)” is used in Christianity for a spiritual crisis in a journey towards union with God, like that described by Saint John of the Cross.</em></p> <p><em>Typically for a believer in the dark night of the soul, spiritual disciplines suddenly seem to lose all their experiential value; traditional prayer is extremely difficult and unrewarding for an extended period of time during this “dark night.” The individual may feel as though God has suddenly abandoned them or that his or her prayer life has collapsed. It is important to note however that the presence of doubt is not tantamount to abandonment—as there is a strong Biblical tradition of authentic confusion before God. The Psalms display King David, the ‘man after God’s own heart’ undergoing serious confusion before and anguish with God, yet this is not condemned or mentioned as being unfaithful, but rather as the only measure of faith that David could have in the face of such withering apparent abandonment. [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Night_of_the_Soul">wiki</a>]</em></p>http://blog.nickdivers.com/post/15162751567http://blog.nickdivers.com/post/15162751567Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:57:00 -0500<p>I feel we are ready, as a society, to move past the word ‘you’ and also the letter ‘S’</p>http://blog.nickdivers.com/post/15139066739http://blog.nickdivers.com/post/15139066739Sun, 01 Jan 2012 15:35:58 -0500<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwu2u54TDT1qzpsapo1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://blog.nickdivers.com/post/14830335935http://blog.nickdivers.com/post/14830335935Mon, 26 Dec 2011 18:06:05 -0500<p><ul><li>People who write about sex on their blogs</li> <li>People who write about sex bloggers</li> <li>People who understand writing about sex bloggers</li> <li>People who understand writing about bloggers</li> <li>Everyone else*</li> </ul></p>http://blog.nickdivers.com/post/14584643572http://blog.nickdivers.com/post/14584643572Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:06:03 -0500*see also: me“<p>The mystery remains a mystery. It withdraws from our grasp. Mystery, however, does not mean simply not knowing something.</p> <p>The greatest mystery is not the most distant star; on the contrary, the closer something comes to us and the better we know it, then the more mysterious it becomes for us. The greatest mystery to us is not the most distant person, but the one next to us. The mystery of other people is not reduced by getting to know more and more about them. Rather, in their closeness they become more and more mysterious. And the final depth of all mystery is when two people come to close to each other that they love each other. Nowhere in the world does one feel the might of the mysterious and its wonder as strongly as here. When two people know everything about each other, the mystery of the love between them becomes infinitely great. And only in this love do they understand each other, know everything about each other, know each other completely. And yet, the more they love each other and know about each other in love, the more deeply they know the mystery of their love. This, knowledge about each other does not remove the mystery, but rather makes it more profound. THE VERY FACT that they other person is so near to me is the greatest mystery.</p>”<br/><br/> - <em>Dietrich Bonhoeffer</em>http://blog.nickdivers.com/post/13860470678http://blog.nickdivers.com/post/13860470678Tue, 06 Dec 2011 23:30:56 -0500If you can't already tell - I quote Bonhoeffer more than just about anyone<p>there are two suns<br/>setting<br/>over the horizon<br/>of montez<br/> fire flies trying to jack light<br/>for nighttime<br/>the people are all lanterns<br/>and they breathe heartbeats<br/>happiness is an air<br/>something we inhale<br/>after the exhale<br/>something to hold onto<br/> when distance wears on us<br/>we speak in daytime<br/>and save silence for street lamp storytelling<br/>live more<br/>and eventually<br/>you die less<br/>be happy dear nick<br/>theres so much world for you to love</p> <p>by aja monet</p>http://blog.nickdivers.com/post/13851201474http://blog.nickdivers.com/post/13851201474Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:22:00 -0500<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvnqyt6Tz81qzpsapo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Whoa bro! Rad dinner party!</p>http://blog.nickdivers.com/post/13707877849http://blog.nickdivers.com/post/13707877849Sat, 03 Dec 2011 21:30:29 -0500“Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot. But all too often the greedy eyes are only deceived; the fruit that seemed so precious is still green on the inside, and disrespected hands ungratefully toss aside what has so disappointed them. Whoever does not know the austere blessedness of waiting - that is, of hopefully doing without - will never experience the full blessing of fulfillment.”<br/><br/> - <em>Dietrich Bonhoeffer</em>http://blog.nickdivers.com/post/13581284420http://blog.nickdivers.com/post/13581284420Thu, 01 Dec 2011 01:17:05 -0500