There have been a couple of days in the last three months that I felt would have deserved a journal update but as one can tell, ultimately I haven’t. Life in general has been fine; I’ve had the normal moments of stress, some great experiences and memories I will treasure forever. I’m certainly going to miss all those leaving EC and the memories and ( Read more... )

Remembering and Moving on After Valentine’s Day ( Read more... )

The service yesterday was beautiful, it really was. Westboro Baptist Church was supposed to be there protesting her services and luckily they weren’t. As I reflect back now, I don’t know what I would have done if I would have saw them. I know what I should have done, but what would I have really done? I really don’t hold grudges, in general I try ( Read more... )

Yesterday started out rather rough. I eventually went to bed around 4-4:30 and was awoken around 7am. It was at that time that I began to get the first text messages and phone calls asking me about Ryanne, and if it was true. Nobody believed it, and just having to tell them what happened made it feel worse. I didn’t want to get out of bed because I ( Read more... )

This is going to be a very emotional journal entry and chances are I might update again in a couple days to reflect on this again. I learned about today's events at NIU prob around 3:30-3:45. From that moment on I called every friend whose number I had at NIU to make sure they were ok. David Bethke was the first to respond back to me and I was ( Read more... )

In those somber forests of his striving his own soul rose before him, and he saw himself-darkly as through a veil; and yet he saw in himself some faint revelation of his power, of his mission. He began to have a dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world, he must be himself, and not another ( Read more... )