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Follow this blog - it's the one I use most!

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:55:56 -0400

Follow this blog - it's the one I use most!

Follow this blog instead!!

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:23:34 -0400

http://adventurewithgod.tumblr.com/

^it’s the real one. :)

"Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose."

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:42:48 -0400

“Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.”

- C.S. Lewis (via beauty-for-ashes)

"We went into the land to which you sent us, and it does flow with milk and honey. Here is it’s..."

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:48:52 -0400

“We went into the land to which you sent us, and it does flow with milk and honey. Here is it’s fruit.”

- Numbers 13:27

typographicverses: “For the earth will be filled with the...

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:37:24 -0400

typographicverses:

“For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea” - Habakkuk 2:14

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Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:39:52 -0400

SUSCRIBE!!

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:56:22 -0400

SUSCRIBE!!

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Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:20:24 -0400

"As cliché as it is, follow your dreams. Just do it. And if you don’t know what your dreams are..."

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:00:02 -0400

“As cliché as it is, follow your dreams. Just do it. And if you don’t know what your dreams are yet, don’t settle for anything until you figure it out, because when you do, you’ll know.”

bookmania: from “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 23:50:48 -0400

bookmania:

from “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde

I can’t stop smiling. Just received word from M. Jobe, our...

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:46:00 -0400

I can’t stop smiling. Just received word from M. Jobe, our contact in Senegal and one of my all time favorite French teachers, that the 22,000 books that Collective Change sent to Dakar, Senegal after over a year of fundraising have finally made it to his school. I feel so blessed to know such generous people who have made this crazy ambition possible. Thank you to everyone, and keep the school in your prayers - they now are working to ensure that the books are used to their full potential. I am so happy I’m literally shaking.

bookmania: “Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from...

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:32:19 -0400

bookmania:

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.” ― Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum (photo by fictionabovefact)

Just There

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 02:54:03 -0400

I’m sitting in my room at 3 am, trying to get some reading done before a class tomorrow, and I randomly smelt what reminded me of my great uncle and aunt’s house in Marathon, Greece. It seemed to be a mixture of the lemon trees, fresh Aegean air and grilled fish, and I was instantly transported to last summer.

Have you ever suddenly had some sort of sensation - whether it be of smell, taste, whatever - that reminds you vividly of someplace or some person? I love that feeling. It’s like self-timetravel. You can stay exactly where you are, in the present moment, yet you’re somehow not “here” at all. Everything moves back to a specific time and place and it’s almost as if you were just there. As if no time has passed at all

Sawdust

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 23:40:25 -0400

I’m just going to clear my head. I’m going to forget about the perceptions I have of people and the world and start fresh. I’ll pretend that I’ve never made a judgement before and I have no former knowledge. I’m a newly sanded block of wood, my past smoothed over by the work of insight. I’ve seen arguments, I’ve heard opinions, and I don’t want it. I want to start over, drain my head of what I think I know, and go from there. I’m new and I’m ready to be molded once again.It seems though, that the sawdust from sanding that block of wood never really clears off. As much as I hope it will, the sawdust remains throughout my attempts to start over. My past cannot be erased from my memory, therefore it can’t be erased from my perceptions.Do you think maybe we weren’t meant to be objective? Do you think maybe what makes cultures so different and opinions so passionate is that we are anything but objective? Maybe the act of being subjective to our own situations is completely human. “Subjectivity” doesn’t have to be synonymous with “self-absorbed”. I think it’s just the realization that you cannot be sanded down, you cannot be completely objective, because as long as you have a memory, you have judgements and theories based on experience. We can empathize with others and understand where someone is coming from. But no matter what, we’ll never lose our personal view of the world. I think that’s the most human thing we have, actually. Our memories, our experiences, and the perceptions that stem from them.

The last time I was at this Starbucks was last Thursday. I was...

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 10:34:03 -0400

The last time I was at this Starbucks was last Thursday. I was working on a paper for my music class and had to analyze the music played here. This included Shazaming the jazz songs I didn’t know and interviewing the baristas about the choice of music. Turns out, Starbucks actually decides what music the baristas play everyday. This is quite different from my days working at the ice cream store and playing whatever was on my iPod at the moment. After the brief interviews, I sat back down in my comfy chair and wrote about the atmosphere that jazz numbers create in a cafe. As I did so, I heard the baristas talking about how they don’t really like the music they’re forced to play. And in about 3 minutes, I heard the familiar melody of “She Loves You” by the Beatles.

The reaction was immediate. Customers commented on the genre change and sang along. The atmosphere was less soothing, but just as comfortable and even more familiar. I loved the “musical revolution” that began after the baristas realized they didn’t like being told what to listen to.

So anyways, here I sit in the same Starbucks, 6 days later, listening to the one and only “Something”. Yesssss

"Seasons come and go, but I will never change, and I’m on my way"

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:42:53 -0400

“Seasons come and go, but I will never change, and I’m on my way”

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Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:40:01 -0400

iamblessed: Le vent nous portera (by Madhya)

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:32:25 -0400

iamblessed:

Le vent nous portera (by Madhya)

pictoryblog: I spent my Christmas and New Years in Paris,...

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:30:49 -0400

pictoryblog:

I spent my Christmas and New Years in Paris, getting lost in the narrow streets, wandering through museums and snapping shots of the romance, so prevalent in French society but hidden in ours. Near the Champs-Élysées I spotted a newlywed couple, running hand in hand. Whether they were moving in excitement, escaping in-laws, or keeping warm in the frigid winter night I will never know, but the grip they had on each other and fluid movement as one remains a vivid memory.

— By Kylee Piatczyc (from “Open Theme”)
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nobodysdiary: I took this picture in October 2007 and I will...

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:29:36 -0400

nobodysdiary:

I took this picture in October 2007 and I will take it again next week. Can’t wait to be in Paris.