Hello friends! I realize its been a while since I've put anything up and that I'm a little late to the game in recapping my favorite things from 2019. But, that being said, January isn't quite over yet and I'd still like to talk about the books and movies that caught my attention last year.... Continue Reading →
11/7/19 - 11/12/19 I learned that our friends' daughter is very near to the end of her life tonight. Tonight - the same night a good friend told me with glowing joy that the boy she's waited years for kissed her. Tonight, the same night another friend turns eighteen. And I sit here wondering which... Continue Reading →
Notes From the Tilt-a-Whirl sort of fell into my lap after a friend recommended it to me and I clicked a few buttons on Amazon. (Thank you Justin and Amazon Prime *salutes*) I've got to say that I'm rather surprised that I hadn't heard of this before, considering it's exactly to my tastes but also challenged... Continue Reading →
I've been working on my July in Review post the last few weeks (yes, weeks - I know, I'm pathetic) and I haven't been able to finish it. Everything about it is finished except for the last section. For the life of me I can't bring myself to summarize my two weeks away at camp.... Continue Reading →
Alrighty, another rather contemplative post. But as I've been winding down from all the stress of the school year, I've had the time and peace of mind to look back at myself and decipher the strange not-myselfness that I felt for the bulk of the year. The other night, when talking with my very close... Continue Reading →
I knew Till We Have Faces would be good. After all, everything CS Lewis writes is pure prosaic and philosophical genius. But I didn't anticipate the affects of its goodness. This one was one of those books where, after I finished, I sat in awe, not capable of anything more. Even two weeks after picking... Continue Reading →
Terrence Malick is no ordinary filmmaker, nor is The Tree of Life a typical drama. (Is it a drama?) It's hard to put the film's plot into a box, but that being said I'll try my best before I go into my thoughts. Simply, The Tree of Life is the story of a man looking back on his... Continue Reading →
Am I a burden to You? I know this isn't true. But I wonder with all that I do - The turning away, my fragile fidelity, This paralyzing inability to do anything right, This feeling that perhaps Your love, in all it's might, has excluded me - If I am a burden to You. You... Continue Reading →
I recently made the mistake of watching both The Last of the Mohicans and The Patriot in the vicinity of a few days. Then I started Lori Benton's wonderful book The Wood's Edge, also set in colonial America, and now my mind is firmly entrenched in 18th century America. Living life in the 21st century is a... Continue Reading →
