After 4+ years, I bid livejournal adieu

back in the kitchen


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Having just moved to a new place, which happens to be the biggest city I've ever lived in, the need to find my way was of immediate importance (just behind finding a bed to replace the deflates-in-a-night air mattress I was tortured with nightly and right before paying property taxes on my car- bleh).  During my few weeks here, I've discovered that ( Read more... )

T- less than an hour to my last ever final at Hillsdale College.  So close to being done, yet it feels so far...

...watching Hannie's race with kristen, to ( Read more... )

"All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at least they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on forever in which every chapter is better than the one before."

The crowd said to Jesus:
“What sign can you do, that we may see and believe in you?
What can you do?
Our ancestors ate manna in the desert, as it is written:

He gave them bread from heaven to eat.”

So Jesus said to them,
“Amen, amen, I say to you,
it was not Moses who gave the bread from heaven;
my Father gives you the ( Read more... )

One of my favorite things about the 'Little House' books is that they are full of songs from the time, always appropriate to the occasion.  This one particularly struck me, from These Happy Golden Years.

A beautiful castle I’ve built for thee 
In dreamland Far away,
And there, gentle darling, come dwell with me,
Where love alone has sway.
Oh, sweet ( Read more... )

The bells at Central Hall are playing 'The Twelve Days of Christmas'.  Yesterday it was 'Let it Snow'.

This winter needs to end

'Make our Garden Grow' from Leonard Bernstein's operetta 'Candide'
CANDIDE
You've been a fool
And so have I,
But come and be my wife.
And let us try,
Before we die,
To make some sense of life.
We're neither pure, nor wise, nor good
We'll do the best we know.
We'll build our house and chop our wood
And make our garden grow...
And make our garden ( Read more... )