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to new beginnings
Greetings from Quetzaltenango, Guatemala! 2011 promises to be a year of changes that I'm already starting to experience - new language, new environment, new prospects. (And it's the year of the rabbit, no less!) In the spirit of such beginnings, I've decided that it's also time to start a new blog. Livejournal has been wonderful, but it has ( Read more... ) -
end of year meme
1. What did you do in 2010 that you’d never done before ( Read more... ) -
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Danger, Will Robinson.
I found good Firefly fic. There goes any semblance of productivity. -
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I've never been one for children. I don't dislike them - I've just never had the maternal inclination to coo at infants or play with toddlers. And yet the most heartbreaking, gut-wrenching news I've had recently has been from two great friends and even better people, saying that they lost their child in labor ( Read more... ) -
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Today I was in fine Friday form - that is, oblivious and confused and generally wreaking small contained havocs behind the front desk. At some point during the laughter, Monica paused to ask me which parent I got it from. I didn't think on it at the time, but on the way back home I remembered when mother visited a few weekends ago. Specifically ( Read more... ) -
hello materialism
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reasons to love this place
Walking down winding roads at dusk from the Fire Trail, beneath low-hanging branches of evergreens and past cozy little houses with warm light glowing from windows and blinking from behind groves of tall, dark, red-ochre trunks. It's like a different city up here in the hills, old and quiet and shielded by trees; perhaps a modernized remnant of ( Read more... ) -
regarding resolutions
"Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them." - Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray ( Read more... ) -
itchy feet
Perhaps it is the unexpected onset of gorgeous weather or merely the extended availability of daylight (such that I can actually experience a few hours of sun during workdays), but lately I seem to have begun taking an active interest in things again. Plans that seemed to require a monumental effort to make just a month or so ago are now every bit ( Read more... )