"And this is what I have come to think: That if I want to identify fully with Jesus Christ, whom I claim to be my Savior and Lord the best way that I can do that is to identify with the poor. This I know will go against the teachings of all the popular evangelical preachers. But they’re just wrong. They’re not bad, they’re just wrong. Christianity ( Read more... )

I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think ( Read more... )

I wanted to insert this here prior to the last entry. it is one of the more stirring love-letter type passages i've come across in awhile:

He looks down into her hazel-green eyes. "Are you flirting with me, young lady ( Read more... )

http://www.alligator.org/articles/2009/03/04/sports/gymnastics/090304_hartung.txt

i like the part about cutting grass in a dress cos i'd do it too.

I found a song along the vein of Green Day's Time of your Life and Michael W. Smith's Friends. (Read: good to dedicate this to colleagues who're moving on etc, best tied in with a slideshow for tearjerker effect ( Read more... )

i heard myself speak on someone's recording recently - and my first thought was omg, i sound like an 18-year old ACJC girl (this is not good news as i'm supposed to be...25) who's a jock of some sort. no wonder an old acquaintance who identified herself as a butch said she wanted my voice!

http://community.livejournal.com/literarytattoos/

yeah i'm still contemplating mine. it's nice that i'm not alone!

I think these are gorgeous. Art, fashion and dance!


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such crispness and finesse, even with the requisite booty swirvel which seems to be a feature of american collegiate gymnastics.

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plus she was a political science & history major at UCLA who names the great gatsby as her favourite novel. what's there not to like?

A combination of the eels, pearls before swine anthologies, frankie magazine and perfumeria gal lip balm in red currant make my days more bearable.

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anyway, this is one of my favourite songs, everyone should google the lyrics. i suppose i've quoted them here before.