January 2009
19 posts
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Cool!
Still sick. Still wasting time because I feel ick. My Peace Corps interview is tomorrow and I’m just going to make the best of my cold. I’m excited…not nervous, yet, which is a good thing because I’ll do better.
easy in the early
Dear world, you are rainy and wet and I have a miserable cold, but somehow everything is still beautiful. Dear @haleycrain, I love you very much and need to spend more time with you and am glad your parents are amazing. Dear @telos, thank you for re-blogging encouraging comments for dreamers; you are a sweet friend! I got your twitter yesterday and was already appreciative. :)
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What was the first Bright Eyes song you ever...
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At the Bottom of Everything.
Amy in the White Coat.
First Day of My Life
Method Acting.
Sunrise, Sunset
Bowl of Oranges. Which is why I thought I might like Bright Eyes. This happy little song dragged me into Conor Oberst’s sad sad world at age young-teen. SIGH.
Lua…beautiful. Although, I...
“We reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals.”
– President Barack Obama
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My mom found this blog- all about what Mrs. O is wearing, and more.
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…I don’t think so. And neither does Lawrence Leamer. This is an idealism renewer for me every time I start to feel frustrated with both the PC and the political process. Leamer beautifully puts the best spirit of the Peace Corps into words. At the root, many of us really are hoping to be the embodiment of American hope and idealism.
That’s what keeps you going, even if you are a...
“The God of peace is never glorified by human violence.”
– Thomas Merton
Peace Corps, application process pt. 1
This is the first of many similar posts, probably. I submitted my application, complete with all recommendations and transcripts, finally. I’m pretty excited! The next step (like a lot of this process as I understand it) involves waiting. I’ll recieve a packet in the mail from my recruitment office sometime in the next two weeks with more forms to fill out and information about how to...
John C. Campbell Folk School
I watched Sing Behind the Plow tonight (it randomly appeared in the library media section) and felt particularly inspired by it. I’d been kind of off the idea of going to the Folk School, although I know people who love it, but watching the documentary made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Olive Dame Campbell seems like the kind of person I wouldn’t mind being a bit like when I grow...
the Roma rights situation in Italy
Last July, Italy started fingerprinting all Roma living in the country. Prime Minister Silivo Berlusconi has continued a long tradition of using gypsies as convenient scapecoats by aggresively campaigning to evict them from their Italian homes under the guise of a crackdown on “security threats” and “illegal immigrants,” which they most certainly are not. There isn’t...
“For whom, he thought, that splendor? For me alone?
Yet it will be here long...”
– Czeslaw Milosz