DecemberDec 16 Tuesday 08
Post-Grad insights and plans
"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heavenâ¦a time to plant and a time to uproot"
~ Ecclesiastes 3:1,2
Here I go, uprooting again. I graduated from college yesterday. It's as if a culmination of 4.5 years came down to Monday, …
SeptemberSep 26 Friday 08
Rocking chairs and Waterfalls
written on 8/28/08 in a handmade journal from India with a fish head on it with a smudgy black ink gel pen:
I feel as if, because it's my last semester in college, that I am holding on to my memories too early and too much. It's as if I am living in a state of premature …
AugustAug 22 Friday 08
The Trucker Wave
At first I thought it was a muscle spasm, but then I realized it was directed at me. It was a faint but unmistakable wave of the hand as I passed by. This wasn't just any ol' Miss America wave or even the small town country wave you would expect from this part of North …
AugustAug 18 Monday 08
Jazz
Jazz.
Oh, Jazz.
Jazz is like sex. Or, what I think sex would be like, as I haven't had done it yet.
Jazz is what rocked the youth culture of 1920's America and started a musical and social revolution.
Jazz is impassioned and wild and all consuming. It makes me wish I …
AugustAug 6 Wednesday 08
Jazz
Jazz.
Oh, Jazz.
Jazz is like sex. Or, what I think sex would be like, as I haven't had done it yet.
Jazz is what rocked the youth culture of 1920's America and started a musical and social revolution.
Jazz is impassioned and wild and all consuming. It makes me wish I …
JuneJun 4 Wednesday 08
Catcher in the Rye: bringing Hollywood together
So, I came to Los Angeles not knowing what to expect.
It's practically a miracle that I'm here in the first place.
I've decided that LA is the best place to read a classic novel in public. Well, perhaps New York is better, but the people of Los Angeles are more apt to …
MayMay 16 Friday 08
Buried in Elephant Poo
These past few months have been months of extremes.
While frolicking in a field in Puerto Rico, I tore my ACL and meniscus in my knee and I had to have surgery. Therefore, I had two weeks of school work and tests to make up when I finally made it back to school while I …
MarchMar 31 Monday 08
Sassy Italian Smile Beams
I learned the art of Smile Beams from my sassy Italian grandmother.
When I got the phone call early Thursday morning telling me she had died, I began to weep uncontrollably right there in the coffee shop.
I suppose it was expected. Of her illustrious 86 years, the last …
MarchMar 27 Thursday 08
They Owe Me... something
The question was asked, "What do you look for in a significant other?"
One girl raised her hand and said, "A guy who doesn't live like the world owes him something."
Ever since I heard that, it got me thinking. Do I live as if the world owes me something?
I was in drama …
MarchMar 9 Sunday 08
My Knee, Puerto Rico, and human kindness
It was a strikingly beautiful and gloriously windy day in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Mathilde (my French traveling companion) and I had just arrived in town the night before. San Juan was the last stop before flying home on our week-long road trip encircling the Island of …
FebruaryFeb 24 Sunday 08
Location Location Location
It was one of those days. I stayed in my apartment all day, alone but not lonely. I was entertained by an incredible Alfred Hitchcock film, some photography project or another, and deep cleaning the kitchen from the salmon alfredo I had made the night before.
As I stood …
FebruaryFeb 13 Wednesday 08
Modified Haiku
5
7
6
The heart is fragile.
Misunderstanding your own
Makes you clumsy with others'.
FebruaryFeb 5 Tuesday 08
I'm Not Awesome
I think sometimes I pursue cultural or personal relevance over Christ.
I live my life in constant defiance of traditional religion and the archaic irrelevance much of Christianity presents itself in.
Fabulous. I'm a rebel. With or Without a cause is the question.
If my …
FebruaryFeb 2 Saturday 08
Saturday, February 02, 2008
I feel like the world is taking a collective sigh.
It's a nice day today and, for the first time in a long time, I feel at peace.
1. Chocolate pudding
2. back rubs
3. God, righteousness, peace
4. Photography
5. Creativity and exploring my subconsciousness
6. Realizing it's …
JanuaryJan 11 Friday 08
The Journey
written 11/23/07
The journey
The journey.
It's always the journey. You don't stop to think about the "sit" times.
It's when your senses are heightened. When the unfamiliar becomes your ally. When space and time are equally in your possession.
The world is my playground? …
DecemberDec 27 Thursday 07
Freedom and the Box Jellyfish
Today I was watching a show about jellyfish on the Discovery Channel. One of the most deadly is called the box jellyfish. When stung, a human can be dead after 120-180 excruciatingly painful seconds. It's tentacles carry millions of venom-filled harpoons which, when …
DecemberDec 9 Sunday 07
Wanderlust
Wanderlust (noun)
- a strong, innate desire to rove or travel about
- desire for wandering
- very strong or irresistible impulse to travel
- (french) "passion du voyage"
NovemberNov 10 Saturday 07
Like exploded ants.
A smile, in passing.
"Hi. How are you doing?"
"Fine. You?"
"Fine."
"Great. Well, see ya."
"Yeah, see ya."
This seems to be what my interactions with people have turned into. These everyday interactions with any number of people and they all sound the same.
This question has …
OctoberOct 3 Wednesday 07
Fernsickness
You ever have those people in your life that can take any short conversation and turn it into lengthy, talk-show chatter?
I ran into someone like that today. I asked him one question. He answered me, but it seemed like every word that spilled out of his mouth sparked a …
SeptemberSep 7 Friday 07
To my friend.
This is my objective face.
This is the blank stare you receive when I know that you know what you're doing is wrong. This is the look you get when you say all of these things but in your heart you believe another. This is the face I make when I want you to stop hurting …