January 2012
1 post
to my 26 followers, I've moved!... →
December 2011
1 post
November 2011
1 post
“Strength doesn’t lie in numbers
Strength doesn’t lie in wealth...”
– I have confidence, Maria
October 2011
1 post
“You’re invited to help celebrate the University’s history on...”
– -Holden Thorp
(not to mention the birth of Bridget Grace Porowski class of 2012)
August 2011
1 post
“i will wait for you there
down on my knees where I met you
give you all of my...”
– phil wickham
words to repeat daily
July 2011
5 posts
to my...
future self,
I have some questions for you.
Do you have a job? Where do you live? Do you work out as often as you should? Still use organic facewash because it seems like the right thing to do? Have you taken up yoga? How often do you dance? Work up the courage to cut your hair short (GASP)? Please tell me you find time to read.
I suppose its up to me to get you there. I wish I could see ahead...
Reblog worthy. Jody's diary (back when she... →
“It was my birthday my mom dad and 3 sisters were sitting at the table. my family started lafing so harde i all most fell out of my char. we had a grat time”
“it was such a mess. me and 2 of my sisters corinne and bridget were playing in the storidg closet. are dad was downstarse and we wer…
“…Nevertheless, I am continually with you;
you hold my right hand.
You...”
– Psalm 73
June 2011
2 posts
“By wisdom a house is built,
and by understanding it is established;
by...”
– proverbs 24:3-7
May 2011
6 posts
it's essentially a board with a clip
I wish clipboards were still fashion forward. It used to be that the person carrying the clipboard was the one in charge. As a child, I dreamed of carrying the clipboard. I’m so proud of the person who invented the clipboard. It’s so impressively literal.
Now, it appears “clipboard” is some software tool. I won’t go into details (mainly because I can’t), but...
“im sorry you lost your voice. but its a good thing that online you dont have to...”
– stepha is brilliant
Midwesterners
Steph: Liking the idea of the beach on Saturday. Anyone interested in a day trip?
Jody: if y’all go, count me in! I can’t pass up sister-time (or the opportunity to hang out with C-man)
Jody: p.s. if chris hasn’t seen the ocean before or a NC beach, i almost feel like we owe it to him……………….
Steph: We can see how you feel …
Jody: B...
“So sorry for your cold! That’s classic college exam mode — sleep...”
– Love emails from my Dad, and any humorous reference to my Sea Power class
“Sometimes Dr. Reichhardt would say, ‘We live not for ourselves, but for...”
– Hans Fallada
(Finishing a book always comes as a sort of shock, don’t you think?)
April 2011
6 posts
joyeuses paques!!!
CSL writes: “There is a stage in a child’s life at which it cannot separate the religious from the merely festal character of Christmas or Easter. I have been told of a very small and very devout boy who was heard murmuring to himself Easter morning a poem of his own composition which began, “Chocolate eggs and Jesus risen.” This seems to me, for his age, both admirable...
goodness and love
“Come let us return to the Lord; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up. After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, that we may live before him. Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord; his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth…”...
“Were I tempted with the best of earth
All it’s pleasures and all it’s gold
And...”
– Hymn in C, Matt Papa
(it’s beautiful and it’s truth!)
March 2011
7 posts
“You don’t need to be afraid of the same things you were afraid of when you...”
– the king’s speech
measuring productivity
Rachel and I decided that you’ve technically had a productive day when you have a product to show for it.
I picked up knitting about four months ago and I began with a simple red scarf. Tonight, four months later, I finished that scarf. I had to finish tonight because tomorrow threatens to be the last cold day of the season, and I’ll look ridiculous if I wear a thick red knit scarf...
“I don’t mind if a person has no hope if he or she is sufficiently funny...”
– Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott
(recent impulse buy)
February 2011
12 posts
linen twill vest page 17... but where can i... →
“Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day;
And give us not to think so far...”
– Frost, “A Prayer in Spring” (I think if we examined the things that really bring us joy, we’d be surprise ourselves. It would be a lot easier to find small doses of happiness each day to tie us over. Keep us here, in the flowers to-day.)
Rachel gave me a ride to class today
I know—prettiest day of the year and I got a ride to class. Glad to see everyone was enjoying the weather. BUT. You know those days when nobody is enjoying the weather? Nobody is enjoying it so that makes me feel better that I’m not. She’s mad that she forgot her umbrella too… Poor guy wore the wrong shoes… Her hair can’t handle this either. Sometimes I wonder...
as you shot across the sky-y-y
Do you ever feel like a plastic bag drifting through the wind wanting to start again? Well. Like a lightning bolt, your heart will blow and when it’s time you’ll know. Boom. Boom. Boom. Even brighter than the moon. Moon. Moon.
What would it mean for a plastic bag to start again? Back to the grocery store? Only take advice from Ms. Katie Perry if feeling like a toxic plastic bag...
“I go where I love and where I am loved,
into the snow;
I go to the things I...”
– H.D. The Flowering of the Rod
(distracted by some quality poetry in barnes and noble)
So Yesterday: Date A Girl Who Reads by Rosemarie... →
littlemissdorkette:
(In Response to Charles Warnke’s You Should Date An Illiterate Girl.)
Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a…
Four girls sitting at a table in Mellow Mushroom. I get up to use the bathroom and this conversation takes place in my absence.
Waiter: Well the hard part is figuring out how we’re going to split these.
Hannah: Well she went to the bathroom so that’s easy!
(He meant the check not the three dessert pretzels.)
typisch
I like being woken up by the garbage truck. It takes me a minute to realize what all the clanging is outside of my window, but eventually it contrasts well with the fact that I’m in bed and I’m not working (yet). It’s probably cold outside.
(Same reason you feel more alone in a crowd.)
January 2011
12 posts
invisible alarm clock
I’m on the hunt for a space heater. But I want one with an alarm clock, because I can’t get out of bed in the morning. Given the carrying capacity of my room, I can’t possibly provide for two new electronic devices.
I only have space for one.
If I get the space heater, it will be easier to get out of bed in the morning and I may not even need the alarm clock.
If I get the...
12.18.10 Last lunch with my French and German...
Marina informs Juliette that French girls will spend any amount of money on perfume and makeup.
Juliette says “oh well.” She doesn’t deny it.
Well what do Germans spend money on?
Cars and houses. Investments.
I tell Marina that my dream is to drive on the Autobahn.
She says it’s pretty cool. She misses it.
It starts to snow.
We sit and talk for a couple hours. Marina...
“No… if you want her to take the risk and brave the fear, then it sure...”
– seth godin
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/
“Nos têtes, nos langues,
Nos oreilles étaient toujours remplies,
Mais les...”
– land of talk
(un peu triste, mais belle quand même)
turtles
“It will be snowing aloft but there is too much warm air between us and where the snow flakes are born so most of the snow will not make it to the ground…
If it snows heavy enough aloft in any given spot, the action of the melting snow flakes will cause the air to cool, paving the way for future snow flakes to survive the trip to the ground.” -wral
Is anyone else picturing...