Yesterday after class I didn't want to get home earlier because I would have to study for Latin, so I drove her home. It was the first time I'd been in her little area during the day time and it looked alot nicer. (It was the strangest thing though, it was the first town I've seen without a Church). Anyway it was a nice drive home and I was listening to Weezer's Red Album. I … [Read more...]
Hopkins Poem & Thought on Nature
(Felled 1879)"My aspens dear, whose airy cages quelled,Quelled or quenched in leaves the leaping sun,All felled, felled, are all felled;Of a fresh and following folded rankNot spared, not oneThat swam or sankOn meadow and river and wind-wanderingweed-winding bank.O if we but knew what we doWhen we delve or hew-Hack and rack the growing green!Since country is so tenderTo touch, … [Read more...]
Cowardice
"The power of evil men lies in the cowardice of the good." — St. John BoscoI am such a coward. Lord deliver me. … [Read more...]
Gay Grocery Day
I work in a grocery store and I despise working on Sundays. As a self-righteous Christian I always like to be at church to make sure everyone knows that I'm holier than them (sarcasm but also a bit of truth). But such is life, that as a student I have to work sundays. It's amazing the people you see in a grocery store at different times on any given day.Sunday mornings are … [Read more...]
All Too inHuman & The Story of a Girl
If you don't feel like reading all this post just skip to the "BUT"We have our extended family visiting our house this week (all the Mennonite Brethren folks). I used to be able to talk with my uncles and aunts about theology and my future as a preacher. But now that I'm of the 'peculiar Roman Catholick religion' (as Rabbie Burns would've said - ), no one asks me about … [Read more...]