January 2012
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i have intentionally not posted anything about christmas or new year’s eve because they have both been downers for me in 2011 and i think there is so much pressure to be merry and transformative and happy this time of year that nothing you do can ever really live up to the expectation. and i’m bad at appreciating imposed significance. and making resolutions. so i’m sitting on my...
December 2011
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this “life” thing keeps interfering with my winter reading habits.
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KATIE ARMOUR | the neo-traditionalist →
“We believe in classics, shaken and stirred.”
pretty shiny unabashedly girly blog love
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aromatherapy sheep
aromatherapy sheep
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the other day i was schlumping around the house in my favorite comfy clothes (drapey v-neck top, skinny yoga pants, hair in a bun) and my mom told me i looked like a mix of audrey heburn and a ballerina. win.
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“Koi No Yokan (Japanese): The sense upon first meeting a person that the two of...”
– via The Top 10 Relationship Words That Aren’t Translatable Into English
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books read in 2011
Birds of America - Lorrie Moore
Breakfast At Tiffany’s - Truman Capote
The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje (re-read)
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (re-read)
The Hunger Games, book one - Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games, book two - Suzanne Collins
In the Skin of a Lion - Michael Ondaatje
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
Too Much Happiness - Alice Munroe
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designing my own weekly planner seemed like a really good idea until i started drawing everything out and i remembered how crappy my handwriting can be.
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tomorrow:
breakfast at zell’s with the best friend (yay!!!) at 8:00 am (why???)
finish christmas shopping
resist temptation to buy books for myself
pay bills
register for spring classes
help mama clean house for guests
“We should not celebrate pain, nor confuse suffering with virtue, but we must...”
– James Bradley, “Never Real and Always True: On Depression and Creativity” (read the whole essay here)
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mini life lessons from your friendly neighborhood...
doing the right thing is harder
you don’t have to prove yourself to cowardly jerks hiding behind computer screens
when something is challenging and you are afraid of failure, it’s probably because it’s worth the risk
everyone is broken and everyone deserves forgiveness and grace
people will try to use you
love them anyway, but protect your heart
you always have something...
all illusions shatter
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Having an "I don't want to live on this planet...
The world is terrible.
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“What I was trying to explore was the attitude of people in various...”
– Alice Munroe, “Child’s Play”
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Winter break: read ALL the books!
after i work all weekend and forget to allow myself to relax until some time next week.
Finals are DONE!
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3:08 AM
Reading Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” right before bed was a very bad idea.
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Last night I went to dinner with some friends at a pub downtown, and no one asked me for my ID. Part of me wanted to be like, “No, here you go, I know I look 19, just check it, really.” The other part was like, “I’M AN ADULT! WOO-HOO!!”
The end.
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good-bye
Today I sang in my last-ever concert with my undergraduate university choir, and I couldn’t have asked for a more fulfilling and satisfying way to end my role in this wonderful group of musicians. The concert was sold out (again: we had performances on Friday and Saturday as well, and we sold over three thousand tickets), the music was exhilarating and tender and grand and jubilant, and it...
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“What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be...”
– Jeanette Winterson (via misswallflower)
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(I’m doing everything wrong)
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elijahslaws replied to your video: I am ashamed to admit I’m a Christian when people…
You’re right… But just be glad you live in a country where you will not be shot or thrown in prison for stating that. America has had its problems. Its to bad you were not in charge in those times so that you could have done the right thing.
Oh, I’m very thankful for the blessings and privileges I...
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that awkward moment when your friend accidentally tells you, via backhanded compliment, that they think you dress like a middle-aged person
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“It occurred to me then that seeing a handler in the ecstasy of an anointing is...”
– - Dennis Covington, Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia
This paragraph reached out and slapped me in the face, and I’m not sure how I should react.
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tonight:
finish reading Salvation On Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia (totally fascinating! totally weirding me out!)
eat an entire box of aplets & cotlets
feel absolutely no guilt for eating an entire box of aplets and cotlets
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two really awesome pieces of good news yesterday:
My sister is having a girl! She is due in late April.
And my other sister got her first opera role at her university! As a freshman! The school usually doesn’t even allow freshmen to audition for singing roles. BAM!
“Art is as important to the human psyche and physical body as air is, as oxygen,...”
– Maya Angelou (via leopoldgursky)
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11 Things to Know at 25(ish) →
you have time to find a job you love
get out of debt and stay out of debt
don’t rush dating and marriage
give your best to friends and family
get some counseling
seek out a mentor
be a part of a church
find a rhythm for spiritual disciplines
volunteer
feed yourself and the people you love
don’t get stuck
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a few things:
the research paper of doom is done. done. done. done. all i have to worry about now is christmas concert weekend and one final exam next week, and i’m home free.
my university’s gigantic christmas concert extravaganza is in four days and half the choir doesn’t know their words. so much rage. i know it will all come together by friday, but tonight’s dress rehearsal was...
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panic spiral!
panic spiral!
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Last night my friend E. came over while I was in the midsts of term paper research, and we had a midnight music extravaganza that ended up lasting until 5am. My soul feels replenished.