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Where did all the fire flies go?
August 28, 2008 in Personal · 2 comments
The beginning of spring and the end of summer in Washington always manage to remind me of my childhood in Florida. Something about the lighting, the pattern of sun and rain, some indescribable feeling of the months of May and August always seem to make me nostalgic for the backdrop of the first eight years of my life. Most of the time you’ll hear me say that the only thing I miss about Florida is the thunderstorms. But that’s not true. I miss the road trips. I miss the lazy heat-bathed days. I miss pre-hurricane season when I would prepare my closet to be a hurricane shelter and invariably make my mom mad months later when I had forgotten about it and cockroaches began to swarm.
Read more of this article.Organization in the Cloud
August 25, 2008 in Internet · No comments
Over the last several months I’ve been growing increasingly more organized thanks to the internets. Here’s how:
Read more of this article.Don’t you ever try to live a lie
August 21, 2008 in Personal, Recommended · One comment
Read more of this article.When you know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will understand that you are children of the living Father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you live in poverty, and you are the poverty.
— The Gospel of Thomas, saying 3
I won’t go my whole life, telling you I don’t need
August 14, 2008 in Personal, Recommended · No comments
I had an emotional breakdown tonight, which is highly ironic considering my last post. But, like all of my emotional breakdowns, it seemed to be pushed along by a little hormone called estrogen. And, also like all of my emotional breakdowns, a result of something rather important that I have chosen to ignore. Last time, it was how much more important Randy was to me than Russia, and this time it was just how much people stress me out and completely exhaust me.
Read more of this article.And once it started it was harder to tell them apart
August 13, 2008 in Personal · One comment
Do you feel what you think, or think what you feel?
Lately, I’ve been doing my best to be more accurate in terms of when I say “I think” and “I feel.” In reading books like Please Understand Me, I’ve been able to recognize that I often mix up the two. There is a very big difference between what you think and what you feel. However, for someone like me who shows a strong preference for logic over emotion, the two can become indistinguishable — it can be difficult for me to know when I’m actually feeling, and moreover, allow myself to feel when necessary. On the flip side, for someone who shows a strong preference for emotion over logic, it can be difficult for them to distinguish between when they’re actually thinking, or using false logic as a guise for what they feel.
