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What is Courage?
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.” - Franklin D. RooseveltRead this quote today from someone's blog, and I thought to myself... how true. A person who is courageous isn't one who's a daredevil, risking their lives seeking thrills and short-term highs. A courageous person ( Read more... ) -
We are like astronauts discovering Infinity.
I just went through my posts from 9 years ago, when I first started this blog, cringed immensely, and locked most of them. I think it's only natural that we become ashamed of the nonsense that we used to think and write about when we were young and naive. It's funny, but also kind of disgusting, looking back ( Read more... ) -
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Still a quote I love. Still.
It's been a year since I've been gone. 770 blog entries and 9 years later, here I am again.
Who am I now compared to that 18 year old who started this blog? I'm not sure, someone stronger, someone wiser, someone olderI turned 27 two days ago. I'm not sure if anyone aside from my family would've remembered had it not ( Read more... ) -
Thoughts on Mockingjay (The Hunger Games Trilogy)
Because I just finished reading Suzanne Collins' "The Hunger Games" trilogy and have no where else to rant, here I am, BACK! On to my rant ( Read more... ) -
Well, times have changed.
I am thinking that I'm going to stop paying for this account any longer--I just don't update enough to warrant paying $20 a year just to keep my photos in the database ( Read more... ) -
anywhere but here.
I have been really bad at updating, haven't I ( Read more... ) -
jack of all trades.
My iPod played “Pure Imagination” and I immediately thought of Roald Dahl (“Pure Imagination” was one of the songs on the original 1971 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory’s soundtrack; and the book was of course written by Roald Dahl). After reading through his biography; which I have oddly never read before, odd, because I’ve pretty much read ( Read more... ) -
the only constant is change.
Just read article on CNN regarding the capture of Mladic, one of the commanders who committed genocide in the Yugoslav wars of the early 1990s ( Read more... ) -
war is only human.
Why the random topic? Well, I just read this article on a Nazi soldier who has just been sentenced to 5 years’ in prison. He is 90 years old. Young people have, for aeons, been forced to fight wars for their leaders. The ones who make the decisions to go to war never have to fight the war themselves. They watch from the comfort of their opulent ( Read more... ) -
and she wishes today, was one year ago.
A year ago today, I sat down and listened to Switchfoot’s “Twenty-four” over and over, hardly believing that after so many years of replaying that song and thinking “twenty-four is still far away”, it was finally here. There I was, turning twenty-four, and I still barely had an inkling of what I really wanted to do with my life. I was at a job that ( Read more... )