November 2011
1 post
“‘I love you’ means that I accept you for the person that you are, and that I do...”
– Johnathon Safran Foer
October 2011
4 posts
“Superman’s not brave. You can’t be brave if you’re indestructible. It’s every...”
– (via wordsandlyrics)
“Homesickness is just a state of mind for me. I’m always missing someone or...”
– Elizabeth Wurtzel (via wordsandlyrics)
September 2011
1 post
“Worry is a misuse of imagination.”
– Dan Zadra (via girlwithoutwings)
August 2011
1 post
June 2011
1 post
My journal
My journal reminds me who I am when I forget. When I’m pensive, I either write or read, and regardless of which path I choose, I am eventually comforted.
Tonight I found myself reading entries from last year and finding comfort in some thoughts from my past:
“But today, in some sort of context, he said that he wanted to protect me and would hurt anyone that tried to hurt me …...
April 2011
3 posts
“We may not be able to stop all evil in the world, but I know that how we treat...”
– President Barack Obama
“The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him...”
– Abigail Van Buren
Jaded and cynical
(Jaded: worn out or wearied, as by overwork or overuse)
Often I see older journalists with this world-weary look to them. They’ve drank too much caffeine, worked too many overtime shifts and broken one too many marriages or relationships. I’ve seen that A LOT lately. The younger the person, the more stark the change.
I worry about becoming permanently jaded. I find that...
March 2011
1 post
On home
(Prepare yourself for possibly the most confusing stream of consciousness entry yet.)
People my age think about the concept of “home” a lot. I’ve read blog entries, angsty emails and had dozens of conversations with people about it. Some of these people love traveling, and get frustrated trying to find a singular “home.” Others have a deep sense of...
January 2011
1 post
November 2010
10 posts
100 things
A few years ago, I wrote a list of 100 things I want to do before I die. A year ago, I looked back over that list and realized how many things I had accomplished and how much I still wanted to do.
Lately I’ve done a lot of new things: moved to a new state, started a legitimate full-time job, fell in love. So when I found that old list again, I read over it again and again and thought about...
“What is healing, but a shift in perspective?”
Mount Yonah
Another weekend. Another blog entry.
Got back from Georgia very late on Monday and absolutely exhausted but really happy. Curtis and I had a blast on our rock climbing and hiking trip on Mount Yonah in northern Georgia.
It was our first time climbing outdoors, and we wanted to make the best of it, so we left Saturday evening after I got off work. After dropping by Sports Authority for some...
Grinnell, Iowa
Okay, my high school friends’ wedding. I meant to write about this days ago.
The wedding weekend started when I left work on Friday evening to catch my flight ot of Jacksonville and arrived in Des Moines around 11 p.m. I met up with my friends Donnie and Robert, who would drive the rest of the way from Des Moines to Grinnell. (They had started in KC.) We drove to Grinnell and checked into...
Some disjointed thoughts
I’ve been trying to write a blog entry for the last hour. Just typing and thinking and venting and such. Most of it ended up in my personal journal instead, and I’m back at square one on this tumblr.
The gist of it is that I’m exhausted. I’m really happy. I love a lot of things about my life right now, but I’m just damn tired. I’ve spent the few spare hours...
October 2010
3 posts
rock climbing
I get bored easily.
I like a lot of different things, and I feel like I’ve done a lot of different stuff: sang, played an instrument, volunteered, designed, written poetry and stories, worked in childcare, embroidered and scrapbooked, taken photos, hiked and biked, played softball … you get where this is going. But I don’t stick with all of them. (Obviously, who has the time?)...
On doubt and expectation
I keep a journal of sorts. Not really on here. This is for my vanity, your consumption, whatever. I used to write in a real journal fairly regularly—while in Australia, in London, at college, etc. But these days not so much. Chalk it up to stress, adult life, whatever you want, but I don’t do it anymore. Instead, these days, I save my personal emails into a sort of diary. Not all of them of...
September 2010
1 post
a big lesson
it’d be impossible to catch up on the last few months on this blog, so i’m just going to come back bit by bit, detail by detail. first up: work.
suffice it to say that my first job out of college has been difficult. very difficult. i’ve had lots of concerns about the number of overtime hours i’m working, the distribution of the workload, salary expectations, and so on.
...
August 2010
2 posts
“It’s easy to look at people and make quick judgments about them, their present...”
– Sherrilyn Kenyon
“When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn’t make the darkness go away....”
– Neil Gaiman
July 2010
6 posts
“Don’t let your past steal your present.”
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What? You...”
– C.S. Lewis
Lots of thoughts after a weekend in the ATL
Lots of stuff to think through and talk about after this weekend, so this entry will likely be a little scattered. Feel free to skip the parts that bore you, haha.
I’ll start with a metaphor my friend came up with that I really like and might set the stage for my entry from this weekend. We were talking about our college experiences and what it’s like to try to be an adult and move...
June 2010
16 posts
WatchHere’s a bird I saw flying away in the swamp. Can anyone tell me what kind of bird it is? I also came across a 3-foot snake (didn’t stop to take a picture), a miniscule frog, a deer and a donkey. It was pretty awesome. :)
“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at...”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
St. Augustine
I’m a week late in talking about my trip to St. Augustine, but better late than never, right? Basically the trip was bittersweet, as expected.
After a chill night at home on Friday (still recovering from birthday festivities the night before), I got up early on Saturday morning and made the 90-minute drive along back roads through Florida to St. Augustine. Unfortunately there are no straight...
Eat Pray Love
So I just finished reading Eat Pray Love, partially in anticipation of the movie coming out in August and partially because of the weird transitional state of my life at the moment. Despite a few spots where my attention wandered, I really enjoyed the book overall. I was hesitant to. So many people (women in particular) talk about how much they love this book and how it meant so much to them. On...
“Promise me you’ll never forget me because if I thought you would, I’d never...”
– Winnie the Pooh
