January 2011
2 posts
“I would break my back
just to carry you back home
to my arms again.”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
November 2010
3 posts
“You know that saying, “when God closes a door, he opens a window”?? ...”
– Glee
You only know what I want you to I know everything you don’t want me to Oh your mouth is poison, your mouth is wine Oh you think your dreams are the same as mine Oh I don’t love you but I always will Oh I don’t love you but I always will Oh I don’t love you but I always will I always will I wish you’d hold me when I turn my back The less I give the more I get...
“You saw my locked doors
and instead of a key, you
burned the whole house down.”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
October 2010
8 posts
“These days, US foreign policy is all about MAS - Mutually Assured Surveillance. ...”
– Professor Wiarda (why do I put up with his droning 8AM class every day? because he comes out with gems like this.)
it goes like this, the fourth, the fifth;
the minor fall and the major lift,
the baffled king composing hallelujah.
note to self:
hot english breakfast tea with clover honey = a good thing.
philosophy book presents from my boyfriend = also a good thing.
using one as a makeshift coaster for the other = not such a good thing.
oops?
“But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens...”
– Kahlil Gibran (if you don’t know who he is, please go buy one of his works. immediately.)
“Your skin on my skin
and the blending of colors
that lie between us.
You have...”
– Daily Haikus on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
“What is it? My dear?” “Ah, how can we bear it?” “Bear what?” “This. For so short a time. How can we sleep this time away?” “We can be quiet together, and pretend - since it is only the beginning - that we have all the time in the world.” “And every day we shall have less. And then none.” “Would you rather, therefore,...
what it all boils down to is...
people are the most important thing.
September 2010
9 posts
“If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything is Illuminated)
Spare me your judgements and spare me your dreams Cause recently mine have been tearing my seams I sit alone in this winter clarity which clouds my mind Alone in the wind and the rain you left me It’s getting dark darling, too dark to see And I’m on my knees, and your faith in shreds, it seems Corrupted by the simple sniff of riches blown I know you have felt much more love than...
“My angel, my all, my very self — only a few words today and at that with your...”
– Beethoven, written to an unknown lover
“She followed slowly, taking a long time,
as though there were some obstacle in...”
– From Going Blind by Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Stephen Mitchell)
“If you wait to do anything until you’re sure it’s right,...”
Mail is generally a great thing, and I enjoy receiving mail. There’s something really old-timey about getting a letter sent via snail mail. It always makes me smile when I open the box to find a postcard from far away, or a note from a long-lost relative.
This all pales in comparison, however, to opening my mailbox this morning and finding a little cardboard box with my name on the...
“Jenny: Were you scared in Vietnam?
Forrest: Yes. Well, I-I don’t know....”
– Forrest Gump
August 2010
3 posts
This post has been a long, long time coming, but it’s taken me quite awhile to compress my thoughts into words. I think I’ve been so surprised by the state of my life lately that I wasn’t entirely sure how to deal with it, or what to say, or how to react.
I’ve spent the last few months (years, really) with a continual stream of emotions and questions rushing through my...
“I hate to be where she is not, when she is not. And yet, I am always going, and...”
– The Time Traveler’s Wife
July 2010
5 posts
“Here’s the thing about being 20 years old. It’s actually the universal age of...”
– - Lorrie Moore, “A Gate at the Stairs”
(this is exactly how I feel about absolutely everything in my life right now. one sweet, sweet month left of being 20…it’s been a great year)
measure in love.
Exactly one year ago today, I was on a plane bound for Sydney, Australia. I was fresh out of summer classes, newly single, facing my junior year of school…and I was scared. I was about to fly 10,000 miles around the world to spend two weeks with a girl I’d never met before in my life, and I had no idea what the days ahead would hold.
What I wasn’t expecting was to be...
I don’t think that, even in a million years when it’s old and even more overplayed and the significance is long gone and nobody even knows who the fray is anymore, I could ever stop loving this song.
Halfway around the world Lies the one thing that you want Buried in the ground, hundreds of miles down First thing that arises in your mind while you awake It’s bending you til...
“Jesse: Oh, God, why weren’t you there, in Vienna?
Celine: I told you why....”
– Before Sunset
Oh, hey, tumblr. Long time no see.
It feels so good to be back - not quite like reconnecting with an old friend, more like hearing an old song from high school….one that reminds you of a part of yourself you’ve long forgotten. In this case, it was an old song from February, which actually feels further away than the days I spent wandering the halls of ELCA. It’s funny how you...
May 2010
6 posts
I’ll be taking a momentary siesta (2 months long) from this blog and posting mainly to my travel blog, which can be found here:
seektheworld.wordpress.com
Much as I love tumblr, I felt that occasions as unique as these should have their own space in which I can express them. The emotions and the excitement don’t quite fit in with the struggles I’ve dealt with for the past...
so close.
Life strikes again.
I saw this coming ten miles away. I allowed myself to believe that everything would be okay, that I’d feel great and I’d go off to Paris and have the summer of a lifetime.
Paris is so close. I’m supposed to leave Wednesday.
I’m not ready to put it all out there yet, to verbalize everything that’s happened. It doesn’t take much to...
“And ever has it been said that love knows not its own depth until the hour of...”
– Kahlil Gibran
“It’s okay to show up at a guy’s house with a dozen roses and declare...”
– Veronica Chambers
April 2010
21 posts
looking forward...
In exactly one week from this moment, I will be going to my last doctor’s appointment before I leave for France. I set a deadline, and I’ve stuck to it. I’m so excited about two months free of doctors, tests, questions, and thoughts. In fact, I’ve already started to forget that this is a problem at all…so much so that I can’t find the words to talk about it.
...
paris just got a little sweeter...
with this new addition to my repertoire:
Ladies and gentlemen, the Canon Rebel EOS T2i. My newest baby. Compact, beautiful, and, according to every review, “perfect if you have tiny little hands”. What a coincidence, as my fingers generally struggle to wrap around your everyday SLR. Incredible picture quality, super-fast shutter speed, a free lens thanks to an awesome...
“Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer;...”
– Jean Batten, ‘Alone in the Sky,’
(talking about plans for his birthday tomorrow)
Me: So is your other girlfriend coming? Are you going to make out in the back room of the hotel?
Phil: Of course! I’ve hired a bunch of rooms in a motel for each different girl.
Me: So what would you do if I showed up and surprised you tomorrow?
Phil: ………..hire another room.
“You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at...”
– Frederick Buedner
this is why we're friends.
Me: He broke up with me because I wasn’t religious enough for him.
Heather: No, he broke up with you because you were dating 2 other guys at the same time!
coming soon:
Whew. It has been a whirlwind of a semester. Things have started to speed up rather than slow down, if you can believe it, but it’s a different kind of rush these days. Europe is close on the horizon, and a number of things have started to shift to a more positive direction. A change is gonna come. I can feel it in my bones. I’m trying to see how many more cliches I can fit into...
(talking about phil’s upcoming visit to his dad’s in london)
Phil: I hope Dad and Claire know I’m visiting and won’t be doing anything bad while I’m there. I don’t want to hear that. Me: Sex is a perfectly natural thing. I mean, how do you think YOU got here? Phil: Dad sneezed and I congealed on the windshield! Obviously.
