This day is Your gift to me ( Read more... )

I just made Caitlin listen to my new fave song, "Gotta Have You" by the Weepies. It's a super chill and beautiful love songish thing that Matt introduced to me on the road trip and I promptly became obsessed with ( Read more... )

i write this update from a super cool random coffee shop in ONTARIO, CANADA ( Read more... )

mildly edited to make it livejournal-appropriate ( Read more... )

"“Why does anybody tell a story?” she once asked, even though she knew the answer.

“It does indeed have something to do with faith,” she said, “faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically.”"- Leave a comment

"For [her], simply to enjoy the fragrance of the flowers, the incomparable music of the bird song as each species competed with every other to sing more sweetly, merely to be alive, to be able to see, hear, smell, to move and to think were, for each and every minute, a joy and gifts from God. Greater gifts followed- to walk in the wood... to talk ( Read more... )

I just lost a term paper that's due in an hour and emailed the prof to ask if he would still be here tomorrow for me to turn it in for a grade reduction (which is fairly standard procedure if at 19 you're lame enough not to remember your flash drive ( Read more... )

so, we're right in the thick of it.

christine just walked into her room, pointed at her desk area (which, like mine, is covered with the many books and clothes she hasn't had time to deal with), and wailed, "THAT IS JUST SO INDICATIVE OF MY LIFE RIGHT NOW!!!"

maybe you had to be there, but it was really cute.

it's been a great year.

i think i'm starting to be ready to be home, a little.

very ready to rest and process and give thanks slowly.

...One moment I am adoring You, and the next I am shaking my fist at You. I vacillate between mounting hope, and deepening despair. I am full of faith, and full of doubt. I want the best for others and am jealous when they get it ( Read more... )