What's happening here?
I was once so alive,
but now i'm so full of dread and almost dead

Show me Your wounded head that has led to communion with the Father...
Where did He go?
His presence seems farther and farther each day...
but I'm trying so hard to steer His way

Yet still lonely and confused on this cold hard ground i lay,
Speak to me wise mouth and ( Read more... )

so, i haven't updated in 11 days. maybe cause life is uneventful. thomas told me today that if i wrote an autobiography i would have a whole chapter entitled 'Essays'. i told him my life isn't worth reading about at the moment. jamie said she anxiously looks at livejournal everyday, just hoping i have something to say that day. she feels like she ( Read more... )

my visit to Orillia to see my grandma, aunts, uncles and cousins was probably the best thing for me to do over my week off. All we did was sit on her couch in front of the TV and watch Olympics while I did my readings and essay research. Super relaxing. It's sad but after I am basically forced to relax for a couple days, my mannerisms completely ( Read more... )

Signora, between Austria and Italy, there is a section of the Alps called the Semmering. It is an impossibly steep, very high part of the mountains. They built a train track over these Alps to connect Vienna and Venice. They built these tracks even before there was a train in existence that could make the trip. They built it because they knew some ( Read more... )

( little sister )

amazing week ( Read more... )

tonight, i just wanted to get some sleep. i am overtired and have a really bad headache. so, not being able to sleep because a bunch of guys on my floor were partying...i wasn't thrilled, but whatever, it's to be expected. kyle and josh put up with us when we party, so no big deal.

so i get to bed around 12:45/1, only to be waken up at 1:45 by ( Read more... )

24 hours from now, i will be on my way to Philadelphia. i hope i get cheesesteak.
i half hope we don't have to go to the mall where i spent my middle school years hanging out.
i know we don't have time to stop by my old house, but just the thought of being that close, of driving on those familiar roads....freaks me out.

my brother has no idea i'm ( Read more... )

( Birches )

i feel like i have nothing interesting to say as of late.
it feels like this week has gone on forever.
yesterday feels like so long ago. monday...a distant memory.
yet still i'm finding there isn't enough hours in a day.

in other news...
we went to yoga today. it had been awhile since i'd done it. it was rad. so relaxing.
my back was hurting me in the ( Read more... )