I'm getting obsessed with this cover. 

Become who you are

Please listen to this.

“From the moment we claim the truth of being the Beloved [of God], we are faced with the call to become who we are.”
-Henri Nouwen

I'm never less stirred by this song. Especially at like 4:30 when that pretty, victorious piano melody chimes in. Is it ok to have Sigur Ros as your favorite band? Haha well, they pretty much are mine.

Check

Sometimes when I look through my photos, a few stand out to me as ones that I know I'll look back on one day and fondly remember what it was like to be young. These impress me as being such. 

Alyssa is one of my dearest pals. We made a lofty summer to-do list last year that has morphed into a general friendship to-do list. This day we accomplished two items on our list: 1. Go to the Irvine Spectrum (most specifically to the asian paper store), and 2. Have a film photo-shoot day. We experimented with her old Minolta from the 70's and this is (some of) what we got! I'm happy. Love you Lyss. Here's to our friendship and to our youth.

^ I know this is just the end of the roll, but I can't help but love prints like these every time. They are their own little ...species... and I like em. ^

"Everyone wants to be right. 

But the brave admit it 

when they're wrong. 

And the best answer 

to any question 

is a humble heart."

-Josh Riebock 

Savior

Jesus as the Savior is becoming more and more and more of a current reality in my life. I guess when  I hear savior, I usually think back to the moment in history when Jesus took Gods wrath and the punishment for my sin on the cross. That is final and that is true. If nothing else is true, that is true. Jesus is my savior in that sense, and any other sense that I experience Him in only stems from that truth.

 But.

I am experiencing that same Savior...saving my soul every day. He saves me from despair, from the depths of my hearts wickedness, from deceit, from myself in general, from earthly and spiritual opposition, from sadness, from accusing voices, from apathy.  He has saved me= He saves me. He saved me tonight. He will save me tomorrow. His faithfulness stretches on for all eternity. He is faithfulness, faithfulness is God; God in Christ, God through his Holy Spirit, God as our Dad.

Oh God, help me to live in you, with you, by you. Help me to see through the lens of truth and to walk in faith.

I am new. Keep making me new. I am saved. Keep saving me.

God already won

Upon studying intuition, I have learned this much: I have strong intuition.

I don't love the intro, but I do LOVE this song and especially this version.

Twitter-light:

An alternative to twilight. (ex.London is at its most beautiful by twitter-light.)


Dreamy words.

Curglaff:

The shock one feels upon first plunging into cold water.

Death by laughter

It's the thigh! 

Confession corner

I've been using this as air freshener in my room. Sunblock just smells so magical and carries with it every happy, summery connotation!

"Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence."
 -Ehrmann

My sissy and I on a perfect sissy day. 

Check her out.

(There's nothing more sexy than a good conversation.)

Si te dijera que no están de acuerdo, Yo estaría mintiendo.

Por suerte y por desgracia.

Jonathan Richman...

...Seems cool.

"That summer feeling

When there's things to do not because you gotta

When you run for love not because you oughtta

When you trust your friends with no reason not ta (nada)

The joy I name shall not be tamed

And that summer feeling is gonna haunt you

One day in your life.

When the cool of the pond makes you drop down on it

When the smell of the lawn makes you flop down on it.....

...Well when your friends are in town and they've got time for you

When you were never hanging around and they don't ignore you

When you say what you will and they still adore you

Is that not appealing, it's that summer feeling."

- That Summer Feeling

Egyptian Reggae

Homework Companion

Once again. Mr. Davis and I have been studying together for as long as I can recall. His company never grows less inspiring. 

"Sensual as a tropical night swirling in honeysuckle and jazz..."
-A great review by the San Francisco Examiner on Pablo Nerudas 100 Love Sonnets

Homework