Saturday, March 31, 2007
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Green Confetti Dots!
I love spring.
my walk home was a feast for the senses. I smelled rainforest, Ireland, wood smoke, fresh laundry. I heard happy twittering birds, someone whistling Ode to Joy, a mourning dove.
I'm glad God loves spring too. why else would he shower confetti all over the place. the white petals drifting over campus are beautiful to watch (from the safety of the library where i don't have to smell them...eww). I think my favorite is the vibrant green confetti falling around our house. dotting the mud and the naked yard, making it feel like, well, not really like a party. more like royalty or a bride is coming. ooh, that's cool! lent is almost over.
in many ways i'm getting tired of not seeing the sun, or at least not for very long. i'm tired of the smell of moist wood in our house, and all the other odd smells it gives off in the dampness. the stuffiness in my head from allergies? but, i can't get over how alive green things look right now. how the air feels like it is offering something nurturing to the earth, to me.
it's sprinkling again. what a beautiful sound. refreshing and renewing. just what i need.
Random Thought: actually it's not random...it's surprisingly 'coincidental'. yesterday i glanced at some notes i had taken out of my c.s. lewis folder. i had written "LOTR, I want to be an elf -they provide rest in chaos". Late last night i was flipping through a journal i like to make lists in and saw "Elves provide rest in chaos. -I want to be an elf. LOTR". I would imagine i copied the second note from the first, but i sure was surprised to see them on the same day!
it made me wonder, What would Faber have done if i had made my mission statement "My mission is to be an Elf."?!
(sorry the post and random thought were so long, i couldn't decide which one i wanted to be the thought and which the post, till i walked home)
my walk home was a feast for the senses. I smelled rainforest, Ireland, wood smoke, fresh laundry. I heard happy twittering birds, someone whistling Ode to Joy, a mourning dove.
I'm glad God loves spring too. why else would he shower confetti all over the place. the white petals drifting over campus are beautiful to watch (from the safety of the library where i don't have to smell them...eww). I think my favorite is the vibrant green confetti falling around our house. dotting the mud and the naked yard, making it feel like, well, not really like a party. more like royalty or a bride is coming. ooh, that's cool! lent is almost over.
in many ways i'm getting tired of not seeing the sun, or at least not for very long. i'm tired of the smell of moist wood in our house, and all the other odd smells it gives off in the dampness. the stuffiness in my head from allergies? but, i can't get over how alive green things look right now. how the air feels like it is offering something nurturing to the earth, to me.
it's sprinkling again. what a beautiful sound. refreshing and renewing. just what i need.
Random Thought: actually it's not random...it's surprisingly 'coincidental'. yesterday i glanced at some notes i had taken out of my c.s. lewis folder. i had written "LOTR, I want to be an elf -they provide rest in chaos". Late last night i was flipping through a journal i like to make lists in and saw "Elves provide rest in chaos. -I want to be an elf. LOTR". I would imagine i copied the second note from the first, but i sure was surprised to see them on the same day!
it made me wonder, What would Faber have done if i had made my mission statement "My mission is to be an Elf."?!
(sorry the post and random thought were so long, i couldn't decide which one i wanted to be the thought and which the post, till i walked home)
Friday, March 23, 2007
fried pizza
so. i've been meaning to write something on here for a long time. but i had nothing to write about. no exciting stories, except sitting around. no deep thoughts. but now...i have something to write.
we. fried. pizza. yes, that's right.... we deep-fat fried pizza. pretty amazing. and surprisingly tasty. kinda like a pizza roll and a mozzerella stick, just like the one website said. of course it sat very, veryheavy in the stomach for quite some time.
see, when rachel's former roommate erin comes to visit they like to make new and/or exciting foods.
we also went and saw the Bridge to Terabithia, which was very good. i cried. i knew it would be sad. i read the book. i think i liked to movie better. or at least the same, it was well done. it made you feel more connected to Terabithia. they did a good job of communicating things that are often hard to tranfer from a book to the screen. things such as the longing for a relationship with his father, and the desire and struggle to find true creativity. however they did have a little problem setting up the reason for the kid running at the beginning.
we also ate lobster. i hadn't ever had it, so i wasn't sure if i would like it. but i sure did. seafood is pretty amazing when it's done right.
now i'm gonna go back to being lazy and enjoy my brief 'spring break'.
we. fried. pizza. yes, that's right.... we deep-fat fried pizza. pretty amazing. and surprisingly tasty. kinda like a pizza roll and a mozzerella stick, just like the one website said. of course it sat very, veryheavy in the stomach for quite some time.
see, when rachel's former roommate erin comes to visit they like to make new and/or exciting foods.
we also went and saw the Bridge to Terabithia, which was very good. i cried. i knew it would be sad. i read the book. i think i liked to movie better. or at least the same, it was well done. it made you feel more connected to Terabithia. they did a good job of communicating things that are often hard to tranfer from a book to the screen. things such as the longing for a relationship with his father, and the desire and struggle to find true creativity. however they did have a little problem setting up the reason for the kid running at the beginning.
we also ate lobster. i hadn't ever had it, so i wasn't sure if i would like it. but i sure did. seafood is pretty amazing when it's done right.
now i'm gonna go back to being lazy and enjoy my brief 'spring break'.
Friday, March 02, 2007
Missing the Blanket
I miss the Blanket.
Today is Friday. Friday means Blanket Day. True, it's a bit chilly and quite blustery. We probably wouldn't have made it out today,but perhaps.
I miss those warm summery-fall or summery-spring days spent lougeing in the sun. I miss those philosophical and theological debates, that i normally just listened to, occasionally putting in a comment probably only worth two cents. i miss the drawing of fake tatoos, mimicking strange noises and shadow puppets, napping, frisbee-ing, staring at the clouds, listening to music, simply enjoying the silent sounds of the trees, wind, and birds with and among friends. Oh, that circle of friends! oh, my dear friends.
The circle ever changing. As the bells tolled, calling people to class, work, video games,life. but for a brief time we sat together. and they would come back, later, or the next week. and new people wouldcome. The circle was a fluid, changing thing. It was at it's best when it was so.
truthfully there were times when it wasn't as good. when it was viewed as, and perhaps became, cliqueish. sadly enough.Oh, those golden early days though!
It would not be the same now. but i have those glorious memories. and it felt like home.
I sit in the Library these afternoons of sudden spring. I look longingly out the windows wishing i could be sitting inthe black hole, or on a blanket, or a balcony with friends playing guitar. Times change. I also look with a ridiculous amount of pride at all the people who are actually enjoying the fine weather, as if i had something to do with it. one day i observed people avoiding chapel and sitting on a blanket...and then, playing Red Rover! how glorious! i'm sure i was grinning ridiculously, just glad that there are people with that childlike abandon i hope i can always keep.
Someday something like the Blanket will return. because people always came back. we will come back. we have to.
Random Thought: i got nothin'. sorry.
Today is Friday. Friday means Blanket Day. True, it's a bit chilly and quite blustery. We probably wouldn't have made it out today,but perhaps.
I miss those warm summery-fall or summery-spring days spent lougeing in the sun. I miss those philosophical and theological debates, that i normally just listened to, occasionally putting in a comment probably only worth two cents. i miss the drawing of fake tatoos, mimicking strange noises and shadow puppets, napping, frisbee-ing, staring at the clouds, listening to music, simply enjoying the silent sounds of the trees, wind, and birds with and among friends. Oh, that circle of friends! oh, my dear friends.
The circle ever changing. As the bells tolled, calling people to class, work, video games,life. but for a brief time we sat together. and they would come back, later, or the next week. and new people wouldcome. The circle was a fluid, changing thing. It was at it's best when it was so.
truthfully there were times when it wasn't as good. when it was viewed as, and perhaps became, cliqueish. sadly enough.Oh, those golden early days though!
It would not be the same now. but i have those glorious memories. and it felt like home.
I sit in the Library these afternoons of sudden spring. I look longingly out the windows wishing i could be sitting inthe black hole, or on a blanket, or a balcony with friends playing guitar. Times change. I also look with a ridiculous amount of pride at all the people who are actually enjoying the fine weather, as if i had something to do with it. one day i observed people avoiding chapel and sitting on a blanket...and then, playing Red Rover! how glorious! i'm sure i was grinning ridiculously, just glad that there are people with that childlike abandon i hope i can always keep.
Someday something like the Blanket will return. because people always came back. we will come back. we have to.
Random Thought: i got nothin'. sorry.
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