March 2012
1 post
bowtiesandbiscuits:
15th of March 2012.
Ordered a Caesar Salad today, proceeded to stab it 23 times before consumption. Nobody else found it as hilarious.
February 2012
2 posts
So Long Security: Truth →
good truths to remember
sarahfairah:
I know that God put my friend Christina in my life for a reason 5 1/2 years ago. She has been there for me through the ups and downs, and is a woman I admire and respect for her passion and unwavering devotion to God. I recently was able to spend an evening with her, and these are the truths that…
January 2012
7 posts
2 tags
A Roughly Written Sonnet.
Seated outside in the cool black night
I feel the desperate longings of my heart.
The lonely stars look back at me, bright,
With me in this sadness from the start.
In quiet I try to listen, deep in thought,
I know my burning passions cry
And wondering what to do I ought
Yet no tear falls from my eye.
The reason for this journey I do not
Know, and I pause often asking why
Have I been...
adventure.
I crave it. To go and explore. To discover things before unknown. I long to travel the world, to experience new cultures, to go climb mountains, to see the depths of the oceans. To go on an expedition through a remote jungle.
Today I realized something quite exciting. I know the most mysterious and unknown. I know God. But how little of him do I know! I know of his love and his mercy, of his...
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Some Poems are Silly
You know.
And sometimes they’re great. And I love reading them and writing them.
But sometimes prose is great. Actually a lot of the time prose is great.
And all the time, Jesus is great. Really great.
He loves me. He sees me. He knows me. Deeply and intricately and overwhelmingly.
And while I don’t know what He’s doing with my life or where it’s going, and while I often feel lost and...
Train.
I love when the train goes by at night.
Its blaring horn sounds loud and clear, piercing the air, interrupting whatever else is going on.
It shouts for me when I feel like I don’t have the space. It shouts for me when I haven’t acknowledged that I’m upset. It shouts for me.
I love when the train shouts for me. I feel better. And when the horn is done announcing the trains...
Old and New
A little over a year ago I created a personal, private blog. I created it to have a space just for me, where I could be still and process the happenings of my daily life. Sometimes I use it for making to-do lists. More often it holds the raw deep pieces of my soul that are reserved for me and my Lord. Occasionally it contains fun posts that I just didn’t feel like sharing with everyone at...
Grief from Separation.
I don’t want to say goodbye.
December 2011
1 post
Poetry.
The Janitors Boy by Nathalia Crane
Oh I’m in love with the janitors boy, and the janitors boy loves me; he’s going to hunt for a desert isle in our geography.
A desert isle with spicy trees Somewhere near Sheepshead Bay; A right nice place just fit for two Where we can live away.
Oh I’m in love with the janitors boy, He’s busy as can be; And down in the cellar...
November 2011
3 posts
maybe
heyannalise:
it’s a vicious little word that can slay me
(sara bareilles)
October 2011
2 posts
“Teach him to live rather than to avoid death: life is not breath, but action,...”
– Rousseau
September 2011
4 posts
1 tag
2 tags
I will name my son
Aiden. After A.W. Tozer.
Because he’s baller.
“Are you gonna post a quote from me cause I’m funny?”
– Annalise Parady
August 2011
1 post
July 2011
3 posts
Leave Kerouac at his desk...
“Enough with words and technical theses Lets grab life by the throat and live it to pieces We can choose, we can change and if we don’t We’re just afraid of living life like we’re loved And in love and alive to all the things we could be If we just believed that life
Life is too short to live without poetry.
If you’ve got soul, darling, now come on and show it to...
“But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation. I will...”
– Psalm 13:5-6
My 12 year old brother
Amy: Adam, when was the last time you showered.
Adam: ...sometime in the past.
Amy: Oh.
Both: ...
Amy: Do you even remember when that was?
Adam: ... No.
Amy: Well you might want to take one sometime in the future.
Adam: Yeah. Sometime.
May 2011
5 posts
Quite Contented
I love being home. There’s something amazing about walking through the door and knowing all the smells and sounds. The furniture is familiar. The way the tile and carpet feel to bare feet. The rooms are all where they were when you left them, even if the things they hold have changed a bit.
My home is so safe. So warm. So full of love.
In the past 24 hours, I’ve gotten kisses from...
“Sometimes I know what I believe by observing how I act.”
– Dr. Neuberg (my professor for the psychology of stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination)
Facebook Chat with Mom (12:15am for me, 2:15am for...
Amy: Mom! Why are you awake?
Ofelia: I am!
Ofelia: I bet you are doing your best work right now and I am getting my best sleep.
Ofelia: not :)
You can do it!
-a message with love from my pod of little duckies
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the...”
– Helen Keller
April 2011
7 posts
“You can’t teach someone until they are ready to learn.”
– Dr. Palmer, earlier this semester in Abnormal Child Psychology
A good reminder.
“Worry implies that we don’t quite trust that God is big enough, powerful enough, or loving enough to take care of what’s happening in our lives.
“Stress says that the things we are involved in are important enough to merit our impatience, our lack of grace towards others, or our tight grip of control.
“Basically, these two behaviors communicate that it’s...
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I love being here but I hate being away.
2 tags
“Early to bed and early to rise
Makes a man healthy and wealthy and wise.”
– Benjamin Franklin
March 2011
4 posts
Today I stopped to smell the roses.
And the orange blossoms.
I’m going to do that more often.
Resting on God
I posted this puritan prayer before, but right now it’s a lot of what I need to remember.
Oh God Most High, Most Glorious,
The thought of thine infinite serenity cheers me,
For I am toiling and moiling, troubled and distressed, but thou art forever at perfect peace.
Thy designs cause thee no fear or care of unfulfillment, they stand fast as the eternal hills.
Thy power knows no bond,...
The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise.
“But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.”
-2 Peter 3:8-9
February 2011
5 posts
“Then he flew down with her from the tree, and placed her on a daisy, and she...”
– Little Tiny or Thumbelina, by Hans Christian Andersen (via graceofgod)
Livy Brief.
I’m working on my Livy brief.
And not getting very far.
I wish I could do something else,
Like eat some bread from Twar.
I need to be a lot more focused
And not waste time online.
I should be working on my latin,
But it makes me shout and whine.
My time to work is going fast.
My brain is moving slow.
Someday I’ll be done with this class,
And then my face will glow.
“Failure is something you did not overcome. You did not learn from. And most...”
– Penelope Trunk (in the last article Annalise posted)
“For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and...”
– 2 Timothy 1:7
January 2011
2 posts
Huic ego causae, iudices...
I feel like this semester I will constantly be struggling between the knowledge that I really need to be working on my Latin homework and a deep, intrinsic desire to not do it.
December 2010
4 posts
“Who wouldn’t look at Abby and think, she’d make a GREAT flying dog.”
– Rebecca Eckert
My Brother is a Nerd like Me
Adam: I found the exact circumference of a circle once.
Amy: Really? 2pi R.
Adam: Yeah or just Pi D. The diameter was 4 and since I know pi to the 88th decimal I just multiplied it.
Amy: cool.
Adam: Yeah it was 12 point something...
Both: ...
Adam: which is pretty obvious...
