May 2013
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new.
I have a new blog. It is actually a real personal website, because I’m kinda growing out of this forum. I’ll post occasionally drafts of what I’m working on for my new blog, but most of my stuff will now be on: inkandparchmentskies.com
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identity.
This is the time of transitions for me. I’ve said more goodbyes in the last month than I can count - I moved across country back to a place I once called home - but I feel like a stranger here.
In some ways, I feel like a stranger to myself. I am no longer a student. I am no longer single (and about to make that permanent in 40 days). I am no longer a young adult (as I enter my...
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April 2013
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Challenge: buy an outfit for a size 26/28 person...
bigfatfeminist:
love is for children.: I’m gonna make a game where thin people have to go a store and find an outfit for someone who is a size 26/28. shakethecobwebs:
tall-thin-and-gorgeous:
shakethecobwebs:
Rules:
It has to be cute, trendy, current
It has to be under $50
I’m talking a shirt, pants, and shoes, but accessories are optional
And you can’t go to the clearance...
matter, part I.
I should be writing a paper. I should be couching academic terms in a five paragraph essay style journal entry. I should be persuading, arguing, explaining, expounding.
Instead, I’m listening to Iron and Wine and Ivan & Alyosha at the Starbucks where they know my name and my favorite drink.
In 5 days, I will leave Princeton. And aside from maybe the occasional visit to see my best...
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along.
It has been a long time since I’ve stay up all night just thinking, writing, wondering, pondering, exploring.
I’m exhausted.
But I’m altogether more hopeful.
Because I remembered this:
that way leads on to way. and grace upon grace, He lavishes on His children. and all along He’s been by our side - quietly chuckling at our attempts to play God.
all will be well.
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astronaut.
I grew up wanting to be an astronaut.
I believed that if I believed enough, I would become one.
I was told what every (white, middle-class) kid pre-9/11 was told: you can be anything you want to be, as long as you work hard.
And I believed it.
I believed that all you needed was big dreams and a bigger work ethic. And anything was accomplishable. That I could touch the stars.
And then,...
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March 2013
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pruning:freedom
In John 15, Jesus speaks to his disciples saying: “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.”
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After a long winter, it is spring here. Green grass is replacing the white snow, rain comes and leaves no ice behind, and...
