August 2010
4 posts
c-ya cheetah
got a new tumblr. so you won’t be seein anymore of me around this one…
hallelujah.
grace like rain falls down on me.
all my stains are washed away, they’re washed away.
on my mind.
demolished stairs. broken lights. broken locks. broken appliances. roommates that aren’t around. boxes of things everywhere. couches outside. dead cat smell. i DONT feel like this is my home yet, & that is unusual for me to even say.
my two best friends will be out of my sight/contact for awhile & i’m missing them beyond words ALREADY.
i’m trying to remember that my...
July 2010
3 posts
things my heart breaks for lately:
—a lack of love towards unloving people (withholding compassion)
—looking down on other people because of differences in character, personality, & lifestyle (snobbery)
—the outpouring of words without action (hypocrisy)
—judging/being judgmental of other people
“Never look for justice, but never cease to give it.”
letters from spring break.
“alisha darling,
i am so glad we have been able to laugh, hang out, and just get to know each other better the past few days. you are such a crazy girl, i love it. i’ll miss y’all. Glagggalllagleagahhh…”
annie
i’ve been questioning myself lately, wondering about my growth as a person & in life. somehow looking back on past experiences causes me to...
June 2010
2 posts
a few of my favorite things:
running in humidity in the AM.
banjo.
pizza lunchables.
truths conquering lies.
i'm ready to be intentional.
about absolutely everything.
May 2010
9 posts
lots of words.
the lull of winter/spring is wearing off as summer is starting to stretch out in front of me. this week has been a catalyst—i feel so much more alive, so much more like myself. the past weeks have been full of worry, doubt, hurt, & (always) fear. i’m being consumed: with new ideas bursting forth, with old ideas being put into action, with love—how to truly pour love out to...
adamichael:
No, Subway- I refuse to eat your breakfast creations.
—your LOSS. subway breakfast ROCKS.
“Paul welcomed heartbreak, disillusionment, and tribulation for one...”
it is 3am.
i just made the perfect summer playlist. & am now burning it onto a cd.
breaking subway news:
we are now required to tessellate our triangle cheese on sandwiches.
we also serve a mean cup of coffee with a pretty dece breakfast sandwich for $2.99 from 7am to 11:30am.
a man came in & ordered a “thick slug of mayonnaise” on his ham & cheese. i can never look at lines of mayo the same again.
April 2010
13 posts
the best date ever =
falling in lake michigan with all of my clothes on. it also includes a scraped up wrist, cut up feet, a dunzo cell phone, & a boyfriend that is laughing pretty hard. needless to say, i went home that night wearing all of his clothes. he’s the best.
honestly, it was probably the best date i ever went on.
for india, for grand rapids.
my heart spills over for india, the country where my mom was born & raised. the country in which my dada & dadi faithfully serve as missionaries to orphans & neighbors. the country that screams out for redemption from idol worship, murder, prostitution, false gods, poverty, misery, hopelessness…
as i have been immersed in the inner city of grand rapids, my heart has been...
there is no reason i should breathe
unless...
ramblings in the am.
man i miss just sitting down like this & rediscovering good music. i get so busy in my life that i overlook all of the little things that make it so worthwhile. like going over the library of music that i have & reliving all of it. i can’t get over how much music moves us, stitches us up, connects us together. it’s incredible.
wake up. drive. make copies. make lesson plans....
The Kooks-Tick of Time
it’s nice now to...
T.S.W.P.B.
miscommunication within relationships is awesome, right? what do you do when you can’t remember everything you want to communicate? here’s a tip—make acronyms of what you want to say to your special someone & write it on your arm for when you are about to have a ground breaking talk.
don’t worry about what they’ll think as you glace at your arm every couple of...
tornadoes are scary.
the sky is all green & it’s raining & storming. but i am always excited when there might actually be one. i mean come on—i want to see a tornado. right here in Pink Knee.
March 2010
11 posts
spilling over again.
i told my CT that when my teacher assisting is over for the semester, i’m still going to assist her untill the end of the year—& through her tears she told me i was nuts. but i would be nuts not to be in that class with those kids. they mean so much to me, even Ector—the sneaky first grade mexican who can barely speak english, who i have to constantly not laugh at. i...
dedicated to lish.
abbie-elizabeth:
I miss watching you embarrassed and nervously walking late into class to have the professor glare at you and give a lecture on how rude it is to walk in on people presenting.
I miss having the professor glare at us as we laugh at random things throughout class.
I miss sribbling notes on random note paper about boys and future husbands ;)
I miss “studying nuclear war” while...
“to live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and...”
– william henry channing (via lauren-elisabeth)
car accidents happen just as often as shark...
Plant Life Cycles.
i just spent the last 2 hours of 5:00am to 7:00am making math, science, & reading lesson plans on the plant life cycle. i have never typed “bean seed’ so many times in my life.
Watchlauren-elisabeth:
this guy joined in the parade without the knowledge of the band.
i CRY laughing e-v-ery time watching this. lish and i are going to do this in a parade in pinckney. you jussst wait. =]
—seriously, you just wait. Pinckney memorial parade, or Art in the Park.
“shout for joy, oh heavens; rejoice, oh earth; burst into joy, oh mountains! for...”
– Isaiah 49:13
winter runs.
running outside is my favorite part of the day. & as the weather has become kinder, i am glad to be running again without falling on the ice so much. the new unearthed mud has officially broken in the nike shoes i got a few months ago. reeds lake has been good to me while i’ve been living in this city—i’ve loved running the familiar paths through each season:summer, fall,...
Damien Rice-Nine Crimes
recently—i’ve...
a poem.
i knew this would happen, i could feel it—i swear
when i walked into the store
& smelled yeast in the air
the mayonaise had run out
the tuna ran dry
& once again i was stuck
waiting on the obnoxious double meat sub guy
the ice machine broke down
the oven beeper was blaring
we ran out of bread
& people were staring
they were more than just staring
they burned down that...
February 2010
23 posts
flowers > sandwiches.
getting flowers is my favorite. getting flowers bc i had a really hard day at work making sandwiches & refraining from spitting in them & refraining from taking down the $5 foot long sign is my favorite favorite.
alright.
free ihop pancakes + some more lesson planning = the rest of this girls night. i’m determined to get a beautiful 8 hours of sleep tonight instead of the 5. i wonder if annie will let me wear her bell tire man jacket again.
random fact about annie: she thinks my desktop keyboard sounds like me eating corn on the cob whenever i type.
