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From underneath a metal garage door he toddled out into the street, clad in a yellow shirt that hadn’t been washed in what looked like ever, and his bare bottom was dusty from playing in the street. He squatted to pee in the drain outside of the holy cow pen, oblivious to our presence next to him. Cows revered because they give sustenance for life ( Read more... )

If it seems I've been a bit absent in my online activity, it's only because what's been happening in the physical reality is so incredibly REAL that I haven't had time to digest it all and put it into words: the right words that is. And perhaps now is the time, or maybe I'll try and fail to capture the "essence" of it all, but at least I've tried, ( Read more... )

According to Whitman the words are already exist in the universe, we just have to hear them, to tap into the power, and then somehow, in our bumbling human way, accurately put them into ink blobs on the paper. He believes it can never be accurately accomplished. I agree. But as pathetic as my rendition is, at least it’s an attempt. That should ( Read more... )

So today I pretended to have a social life. While my mom napped and my sister watched TV in her room I got dressed in a nice turtleneck and slacks, slipped on a super cute pair of shoes and headed out to my car. I had no real destination in mind, if I happened by a bookstore I’d try to find a copy of a book a friend recommended, but there was no ( Read more... )

Okay, let's talk hypocrisy. The gap between reality and theology, between our ideals and what we actually do. Let's get real. I’m tired of pansying around the issues. I'm tired of so many people throwing their ideals around, or in the predominant circle I run in, their theology around, and not actually getting in the mud and doing something about ( Read more... )

I feel like I've been sitting in an airplane too long, you know where you're just cramped and need to get up and stretch around but you can't because a 350lb man in a suit is sleeping on your shoulder. Ugh. Yakima is incredibly lame, if it weren't for my mom puttering around the house humming "walking in a winter wonderland" (but only like 10 bars ( Read more... )

So I realize that it's still like 24 days until I leave, but sometimes my motto "be prepared" rears its ugly head...but yeah I am a packing goddess. I just thought I would begin herding all of the must take clothes and they ended up in a large pile in my living room. I looked at my LL Bean backpack/duffel bag thing and thought 'holy crap, it's not ( Read more... )

Nightmares are a lot cooler to talk about when they involve monsters or boogeymen chasing you down the street and you’re stuck running in place. It is not cool to have nightmares about making Rachel Ray’s 5 minute fudge. But that’s what happened, and I woke up sweaty and all tangled in my blankets. And could it get any worse? There I was trying to ( Read more... )

"O great God, be small enough to hear me now." Nichole Nordeman ( Read more... )