sisters are good for the soul.

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i am more than what you say i am
(an ode to community)

i came, half formed
believing the world had started without me
i jump into matters matter-of-factly
i engage ideas born of desperation
swimming in an indigo sea
i bid it stain my limbs
and release the hold
my roots have on me
- for i am the same as you!

but you are wise,
and you love me just the same.
i know you by heart
and i increase by your mind.
come, i alone can choose to stand
and be paralyzed no longer.
for liberty calls,
liberty calls and my words
have the same weight as yours!

but i choose to cry peace.
the shadow i cast on the platonic cave
you will come to recognize as me,
never to be mistaken.

and if that makes me anti-american
so be it.

01.22.05

epic conference! yay

very tired, going to put my head down now

... but i think summer project and bible study leading is in my future. *nods*

Psalm 16

Keep me safe, O God, for in you I take refuge.

I said to the Lord, "You are my Lord; apart from you I have no good thing." As for the saints who are in the land, they are the glorious ones in whom all is my delight. The sorrows of those will increase who run after other gods. I will not pour out their libations of blood or take up their names on my lips.

Lord, you have assigned me my portion and my cup; you have made my lot secure. The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance.

I will praise the Lord, who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me. I have set the Lord always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.

Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest secure, because you will not abandon me to the grave, nor will you let your Holy One see decay. You have made known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.

patience, iago.

Jennifer Hanson
"Beautiful Goodbye" [ Jennifer Hanson ]
(Jennifer Hanson / Kim Patton)

It's like the most amazing sunset you've ever seen
There's never another quite the same
It just falls into some deep eternal sea
Like the end of a movie that makes you cry
You're sad when it's over but you're glad you had
That moment that moved you deep inside

Beautiful goodbye, baby goodbye
I enjoyed the ride, we really had us a time
It's a strange kind of high -
A beautiful goodbye

An' standin' here watchin' you drive away
We were so grown up about it all
But how will it look in the light of day?
I miss you already but don't turn around
It's funny how you know when it just won't work
And how letting go can echo the sweetest sound

Beautiful goodbye, baby goodbye
I enjoyed the ride, we really had us a time
It's a strange kind of high -
A beautiful goodbye

It's so ironic, it's so confusing
To do the right thing and be losing
I'm always stuck with choosing
And ain't that just like life?
Hey, yeah
Hey, yeah

Beautiful goodbye, baby goodbye
I enjoyed the ride, we really had us a time
It's a strange kind of high
A beautiful goodbye

Goodbye
Yeah

Na na nah...na nah...na na
Goodbye

early second day thoughts:

what's brown and sticky?
a stick!

hobbes: poor him. he wasn't you (after calvin, mailing himself, is sad that the calvin of the past never got to see the calvin of the bright happy future).

moll after her first bra shopping, trying a rather sexy black one on: "they look like sunglasses!"

"what would be grosser than eating snot?"
"POO!"

hahahahahaha

hoppy new year... thoughts all in good fun.

- i missed my puppy today. but it was okay cause i was with my sister.

- the first person that i saw on new year's was a really big drunk guy (marcus) who shook my hand up and down and yelled happy new year because he was so happy that he was still conscious. haha. he rocks.

- i'm listening to phil vassar's "rose bouquet"... such a high school song. it's great. "we got it right once, didn't we / we had our shot and / missed it by a mile..."

- quote of the day: "so you could hide boobies in your chest area!" - my sister, in response to new regulations that airline security folks can't pat down anywhere below the shoulders and above the navel.

- today we officially celebrated my santa cruz mommy's birthday at the cheesecake factory. yay, mommy now you are super old. i'm glad we could get you something you were sort of looking for. =0)

- [switchfoot] this is a way - this is a way that i'm learning to breathe, i'm learning to crawl, i'm finding that you and you alone can break my fall

- i have been blessed with fantastic relationships in my life, i can only hope i'm healing as well as i have been receiving.

- oh yeah. this reminds me of a story. katie shields reaffirmed this desire once in high school, i remember it well: my house has no stairs, and all my friends (when i was little, and i guess now too) all had stairs in their house. so whenever i went over to my cousin's house (he had carpeted stairs, that was extra super duper awesome) i would run up and down the stairs and they could NEVER FIGURE OUT WHY. well, duh. they'd be all, what the heck?!! and i'd be all, wheeeeee!

- me on sade's "by your side": man, this song is so hot that she makes me wanna have sex with her!

my mermaid: O-3--<
moll's merdude (with a "ninepack"): =O-#---<

good night!
-- pink mini ipod lover