Hello everyone, I have just recently arrived back in New York. And for the first time outside of my thoughts, I am going to express something that's really been haunting me: I'm not really sure what I'm doing here. People ask me if I like New York, and yes, the city itself is amazing with so many things that is unique to the Big Apple. However, ( Read more... )

I've just recently begun to notice just how narrow of a perspective my writing, particularly in this livejournal, is. Very rarely do I dare venture into things such as social ills and injustices, politics, things in life that make me furious and things in life that make me giddy. It's not much of a place where I internally argue or complain about ( Read more... )

Today, I could have died. Granted, I could die any day, but today death brushed up particularly closely against my side, or more like against the side of the car I was riding in ( Read more... )

this past semester has, honestly, been a bit of a breeze. none of my five classes had me pulling my hair out, i haven't at any point wished for a shotgun that might be useful in scaring my floormates to be quiet, and my job has been so relaxed that it's really just going online for 10 hours a week while i'm being paid 15 hours because i "work out ( Read more... )

thy kingdom come, thy will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.

If I said that I thought the most beautiful things also hurt the most, would that make sense ( Read more... )

“There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with little hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up ( Read more... )

i love change. it makes life much more interesting for me. and even though there's the hassles of doing some tasks repeatedly, like packing and unpacking, filling out those annoying tax forms for new employment, or readjusting my already lacking sense of geographic placement and direction, there's something about change that feels so empowering or ( Read more... )

After attending college group with good shepherd last night, I had a lot on my mind. We studied the opening of Paul's first letter to the Corinthian church, and much was made of how division within the church had to do with the wisdom and foolishness of mankind. But more than that, there was much to be discussed about whether God seemed to value ( Read more... )

i just found out that if you go look at my slideshow of pictures on winkflash, there's a button that says "save hi-res", and you can download the picture in its original form. COOL! NO MORE EMAILING FAT FILES!