Here is a sampling of my mind's wanderings throughout my first year of teaching and first time living on my own; nothing extraordinary, just simple, short, and sweet. My friend Alli asked that I create a blog so she could follow my adventures, and I have willingly obliged.

"Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in love in a quite absolute, final way. What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything. It will decide what will get you out of bed in the morning, what you will do with your evenings, how you will spend your weekends, what you read, who you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you with joy and gratitude. Fall in love. Stay in love. And it will decide everything."-Pedro Arrupe, S.J.

2.09.2012

Sing a Line or Two

Throughout high school I kept an entire steno pad (a mini notebook) full of quotes from songs I heard. The quotes were generally of a romantic nature, but nevertheless reminded me of some life experience I'd had. I looked through that notebook constantly, frequently posting one or two quotes in my AIM profile (remember those?!). Those song lyrics were a reflection of me-they were the perfect expression of how I was feeling at the time. Though I no longer have the steno pad, I still catch myself jotting down a line from a song on a scrap of paper, never knowing when the perfect time will be to use it again. For nostalgia's sake, I wanted to throw another out there that struck me as I listened to a John Mayer song the other day: "I like to think the best of me is still hiding up my sleeve." Always gotta keep 'em guessing as to what you're smiling, or in my case singing, about.
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