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[I was born when they took my name]
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a quick gripe started on tumblr, so there is not punctuation
ok so like this law school shit has me pretty amped, gotta say ( Read more... ) -
[and our laughter will echo off of the stars so bright]
My new year's resolution this year is "be better at being out ( Read more... ) -
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I found the following note to myself in my phone's memo pad, where I keep a lot of notes about the things I've seen:
remember that you looked out of a train window like this one and thought that being here was a success, independent of any failure that might follow; that even if you can't write a klausur, you stood on mountains and drank in the ( Read more... ) -
[it's a long way with clouds upon our backs]
Studying for the pile of Klausurs looming in 10 days?? Ridiculous!! There's spouting of bullshit on the Internet to be done ( Read more... ) -
[pursuing it with eager feet]
I'm not exactly sure how old I was when my father read me The Hobbit. I know we were still in our house in Cleveland, so younger than nine; I don't think my sister had been born yet, so probably younger than seven. I don't remember if it came before or after A Little Princess, which was the other formative book of my childhood, and I've given up ( Read more... ) -
[winter breaks me at the start every time]
Edward Elgar - Introduction and Allegro for Strings. Second part, the fugue, is here. A complete, slightly cleaner, more professional version is here, but I honestly like the interpretation of the first one a little better!When I was 16, my high school orchestra played this. It was incredibly ambitious for a high school orchestra even to attempt ( Read more... ) -
[I want love to walk right up and bite me]
I am, at this moment, consumed by a sustained happiness that I don't actually know what to do with. That I have no range of experience to compare to. That I know, in an embarrassed, confused way, is absolutely nothing special; that represents a happiness that thousands and thousands of people have felt before me, and that means little to anyone to ( Read more... ) -
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Today I went to church at the Paderborner Dom, like I've done every Sunday since I moved here. I love that cathedral. I love the brightness of it, the fresh colors, how well it is kept up and how full it is in the mornings. I love the pipe organ and the flickering candles and the Maria hanging in gold and white marble from the top of an arch ( Read more... ) -
[join me in glad adoration]
In May, at the tail end of the semester just before finals, I got nostalgic, as I inevitably do when there is a journey imminent. I spent an hour googling pictures of St. James cathedral, the church I attended when my family lived in Ohio - the first church I remember, the church and daycare and school around which my life revolved for the fist ( Read more... )
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