This was filmed while we were there last April. I need to write about that experience. It changed me so much. Kamisama wa idaidesu! :)

I think that I finally found that peace that I've been looking for.

That's simply grand. :)

I am being seriously spoiled rotten today.  I woke up to beautiful weather. Talked about volunteering down the street once my work schedule is more regular. Talked to Mission to the World about an internship this summer in Japan.  Went out to lunch with my grandparents.  My grandpa gave me his old camera.  My grandmother on my dad's side mailed me ( Read more... )

I am getting better! Like A LOT better!
In just a week and a half my cholesterol went down 25 and my triglycerides went down 125!
Hallelujauh!

Looking at the local events last night from a historian's eye:

The people had to wait in line for hours and the Obama campaign folks showed up to keep them there.  They had a few thousands dollars worth of food and they distributed it to the college students. They brought music. Live and MP3. Everytime one type of food was gone another arrived. Out ( Read more... )

So, this time two years ago I was in a basement at school and this banging that shook the whole building started. I realized that I was hearing the beginning of the New Marshal Center's construction.  Today I was randomly walking by where the two buildings stand, side by side, and I clicked a picture because they were tearing the old one down. 20 ( Read more... )

I want to scream until my soul shatters.

Do you think I do not feel the space between us ( Read more... )

 
LYDIA

Reflections don't refract
When you're a fish.
A crashing crescendo
Of the conscious;
After the act--
Doesn't exist.

The scales don't fall from their eyes
Down deep into the abyss.
There is never the worry of being remiss.
Or having a boss that is epically pissed.

Because reflections don't refract
When you're a fish.
All they need to think is:
Can ( Read more... )

I have just viewed the film version of Sense and Sensibility for the first time ( Read more... )