Saturday, June 28, 2008

the french, again


excerpt from the french on life and love, a charming little book i bought while thrifting in kc last year. i recently considered re-thrifting it so someone else could enjoy it, but decided to go the way of the selfish with it. i really do love the quirky illustrations that accompany some of the quotations. there just aren't enough of them.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

sunshiny day


in a fit of nostalgia, i very nearly posted a poem that i wrote while in high school. one of the few non-teen-angsty poems that emerged from those years, it was an ode to the sun.

(or something like that.)

fortunately, i came to my senses and, to save my self-respect, decided that surely someone else had said the thing better than my own pimpled self. the french came to my rescue (using a lot fewer words than i had):

"a summer's sun is worth the having."
~ french proverb

p.s. i no longer write poetry. my self respect also required that i point that out.

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

i have a new sister


this weekend, in nashville, i watched my brother get married. the wedding was beautiful. i'm afraid i cried a tiny bit. not so much from secretly being a hopeless victorian who cries at least a tiny bit at everything, but from the knowledge that i was watching countless prayers of countless people being answered. it was amazing.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

pattern


pat-tern: a reliable sample of traits, acts, tendencies, or other observable characteristics.

thinking a lot lately about my own patterns, habits. things i consistently do that i ought not, or things that i ought to do but consistently don't.

i find i have a great many problems.

the task of changing is so daunting that i have to force myself to be motivated to change, rather than throw myself into bed in a weepy, unholy fit of depression. which is, i admit, a wise habit to begin breaking.