A snapshot.

Easter morning. A young woman, wearing a navy cotton dress, a white J. Crew Cardigan, and pearls, has just spent three hours at church for Easter Sunday services. She read scripture from the pulpit; she loves the hymns and anthems, and is probably going to be a pastor one day. She is now at her aunt’s house for Easter dinner, her ( Read more... )

Silently one by one,
in the infinite meadows of heaven,
Blossomed the lovely stars,
the forget-me-nots of the angels.

Since it's been just about a year since I changed my layout, I decided I was due for an update. Found this wonderful layout via thefulcrum, of course, and slapped it on here (you can find the directions & details about this particular ( Read more... )

It's Friday night.

It's 8:30 pm, and my fiance is out with some buddies, essentially trying to get one of them laid. This is actually kind of amusing-- there's four of them; two of them are engaged to be married (Wes and Sebastian) and one is in a serious long term relationship of over two years. The fourth? Just got out of a nasty, nasty ( Read more... )

Ladies and gentleman, welcome to April.

olivia_circe's enthusiasm is nothing if not contagious, and after last year's run of amazing poetry, I'm looking forward to this year's array of literary exploration. Each year I get to read amazing poetry, and I find myself digging around for poems that make me sit up a little, pay attention. Last year was the first ( Read more... )

Haven’t posted in a while, thought I’d remedy that. Life has been pretty life-shaped recently, with some variance. Stress about money, about work, about life. Wonderful friends, amazing nights and weekends, a great fiancé. It’s a mish-mash of ups and downs, I guess.

• Went to Maine last weekend, had an amazing time. Wes and I carpooled with betweenthebliss; she ( Read more... )

Um, amazing:

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For absolutely no reason other than it's been stuck in my head and I freaking love it:

The heart may freeze or it can burn ( Read more... )

Okay, Karma. I get it. This is just my week. Big things have gone wrong, little things have gone wrong, and I'm swinging between a decent mood about the whole mess to feeling like crap (THAT I blame on hormones, at least), and it's only Wednesday. I don’t know what I’ve done recently to deserve this, or if I’m just going to get amazing luck in the ( Read more... )

If that last post was the cranky-unhappy-badnews edition of Sarah's LJ, I'm making this the HAPPY-CHEERFUL-GOOD edition of Sarah's LJ.

Un - Uno - OneSo, I'm staying late for a meeting tonight, which kind of sucks, but I was just talking with my co-worker, and instead of pizza 'n' subs, like we always do, we're going to get TASTY'S. Now, I don't ( Read more... )

Dear upstairs neighbors,

You are not the only people living in this building. When you do laundry, you need to actually pay attention to the fact that you’re doing laundry. This means somehow (set a timer, leave yourself a post it note, WHATEVER) reminding yourself after about an hour to move wet clothes into the dryer, and then about an hour ( Read more... )