"he best can paint them who shall feel them most"

please name your favorite painting! or, if it hasn't a name, please leave a link!


(the quote is alexander pope)

what i did over spring break

enjoyed a much needed three days at my best friends house.

read the great gatsby and got rehooked on books.

spent an afternoon with my sister and a lovely evening with my sister and brother watching firefly. we finished the series and watched the movie, serenity, and i'm still a bit disturbed that they killed off one of my favorite characters! no! not wash! ... and now i'm wondering why they called the series firefly. hmm. if you have any insight into that please tell me!

cleaned my room. (its covered in homework again, though.)

spent a day doing almost nothing!

with caitlin's help, i bought fabric for the quilt i'm starting. yes i know, quilts don't really seem like something i'd be likely to start and complete, but this one is different. i really love the fabric and the pattern, and i'll post pics of the fabric soon!

went to a grreat church meeting at my church, and got to know my church family a lot better. funny how that works- i didn't actually spend much time talking to visitors, but i really feel a lot closer to the people i go to church with every sunday than i was before

i'm relatively sure i did more than this...

a goodly assortment

Just read: The Great Gatsby

Currently reading: Wives and Daughters

About to start: Villette


and hey ho for books!

C.S. Lewis

"A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers--including even his power to revolt...It is like the scent of a flower trying to destroy the flower."

que? what?

from whence comes the que in barbeque?

there are a lot of stories explaining this, and unfortunately i found out today that my favorite of these stories is classified as a myth.

the story goes that a group of french people visited the carribean and saw a pig being roasted whole on a spit over a fire, and said the cooking stake went "barbe a queue," or "from beard to tail.

oh dear, now i'm very hungry.

Dirge without Music

I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind:
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned
With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.

Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you.
Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust.
A fragment of what you felt, of what you knew,
A formula, a phrase remains, --- but the best is lost.

The answers quick & keen, the honest look, the laughter, the love,
They are gone. They have gone to feed the roses. Elegant and curled
Is the blossom. Fragrant is the blossom. I know. But I do not approve.
More precious was the light in your eyes than all the roses in the world.

Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

minty fresh!

ahhhh! yum. these are the best mints in the world.

Idea

Tell me if this is weird. well, i know its weird, so don't. nevermind.

nosePod.

its like an ipod for your nose. you can download smells from the nosePod website and you just walk around and for example if you're in someone's house and there is mildew or pets or stinky fish or something, you just stick on the nosePod and set it to grassy knoll! and yes, it is invisible, you don't have a gigantic thing just sittin on your nose, that would be weird.

i think i'd have "fresh dirt" cause it smells grreat, "clean laundry", "wet freshly mowed grass" "my favorite soap" (papaya... its from kroger and its really cheap and it smells really good) and "orchard" ... what about you?

Gnocchicism

Thinking about Gnosticism makes me hungry. For pasta.

Mmmm... Gnocchi.