Whew.


This past semester was crazy. Going, going, going. Always having to be on top of my game, always ready to perform, always prepared for evaluations, presentations and whatever else…

This morning a friend of mine emailed me a most unexpected email. She works at a recreation center in town and her department is in charge of the Santa’s Mailbox each year. Around Christmastime,…

Oh hey…


It’s been a rather long time since I’ve updated hasn’t it? Sorry about that, first there was this nasty paper about the character of Satan in Paradise Lost (it was a rather…

Ten person fort. Tangled. Love.

• My family because they understand that I’m weird and they still accept me
• Friends that will spend hours…

random-people:

She is always known as the quiet, shy girl. And because she seems so shy and because she is so quiet, people assume she has nothing to say, that she is boring, that she knows nothing. The opposite might be true. She observes, she listens, she hears and sees everything. But that is not the reason…

dallasclayton:

THE GOOD LIST

When you’re feeling down
because you’ve spent the day
comparing the list of things you are good at
to the list of things you know you’re never going to master
it’s important to remember
that everyone’s list skews toward the latter.

It’s true.

There are far too many…

So I’m in the process of writing a huge 20-ish page paper but I’m taking a short break since my attention span completely died a few minutes ago. 

Since I’ll probably be out of focus for the next few weeks, here’s a few of my favorites in top 10 form.  Tonight, we’ll be starting with my favorite songs:

1. The Call: Regina Spektor.   By far my favorite song of all time! With the past few years of my life involving seasons of meeting lots of crazy amazing people and having to say goodbye, this song reminds me that there’s no need to say goodbye to the people you love.
2. O’ Blessed Child: The Candy Shop soundtrack. First of all, watch the movie when you can. It’s a 30 minute movie about child sex trafficking but so incredibly good. This song basically wraps up all emotions that comes up when dealing with hurting people. Yeah, all that in a song.
3. Beautiful Things: Gungor. Favorite worship song of all time, no doubt. Who hasn’t felt like a discarded piece of trash before? Well, God takes junk and makes it beautiful. 
4. Through Heaven’s Eyes: Prince of Egypt soundtrack. The best 3:42 of instant bar mitzvah one could ever want. Try and listen to this song and not dance, it’s impossible.
5. All About Us: He Is We feat. Owl City. I’m pretty sure the first day I got this song, I listened to it about twenty times. And it didn’t stop for at least a week. After listening to this song, you can’t help but smile really goofy and have a strong urge to dance. I hope this is what love sounds like. 
6. Wunderkind: Alanis Morissette. Ok let’s be completely honest. Practically every single song from any Chronicles of Narnia soundtrack is my favorite. This includes “This is Home” by Switchfoot, ”Can’t Take It In” by Imogen Heap, “There’s A Place For Us” by Carrie Underwood and all the musical creations by Harry Gregson-Williams.
7. Indelible: Brooke Fraiser. This song just inspires me to be more. That doesn’t entirely make sense but sometimes, just remembering how much a great and incredible God loves me motivates me to strive and be a better person. This is also the song that inspired me to go on The World Race.
8. Expressions: Helen Jane Long. Just listen to the song. If I had a soundtrack to my life, this would be in it and in my crazy, bouncing off the walls life, being able to listen to this  song for a few minutes helps me to relax and refocus.
9. Lions!: LIGHTS. Lions make you brave. Giants bring you faith. Death is a charade. You don’t have to feel safe to feel unafraid. That’s all you need to know.
10. Falling In Love In A Coffee Shop: Landon Pigg. I listened to this song once and had a crush on the song. It’s beautiful, it’s real, like number 5, I hope that this is what love sounds like.