I'm going to be a bit tactless here: I don't know if I will ever again be able to place my faith within the margins of any organized religion. Here's my reasoning. Even if I wholly believe one church's doctrine (and I can say this because I did, for a time, wholly accept the doctrines of the LDS church), I always possess an underlying doubt. Is ( Read more... )

This isn't how it's supposed to work. Why can I not have a normal human experience ( Read more... )

So I'm looking at old journal entries from this summer when I was in Portland, and some are really insightful so I wanted to post them here ( Read more... )

Hello, an A- is definitely not the end of the world. Why did it take me 3 days to convince myself of that fact? Anyway I'm okay now. Three days in a row of mindless work from 7AM-5PM gave me plenty of time to think about it--and to take advice from some profound lyrics ( Read more... )

Americans in general give themselves such bad names. I wish we were more willing to teach our children a different language--and I mean before high school. I cannot fathom how any country, even one so "great" as America can expect everyone else to speak its language, yet not take the initiative to broaden its own horizons ( Read more... )

I've never seen the sky look like charcoal before. It kind of goes along with a lot of what I've been feeling lately--just foggy. And dark, but in a strangely beautiful way. I think we all get that way sometimes. If that weren't so, we wouldn't have any poems except ones about love, we wouldn't have any French songs, we wouldn't have the sort ( Read more... )