here, there, and everywhere

Section III: Penitence and Deprecation in The Valley of Vision. 

It’s Saint Patrick’s day. The air smells like beer and cigarettes and my eyes are overwhelmed by blurs of bright green.

Oh New York.

Whoever said New Yorkers were rude was definitely wrong. After sitting at Madison Square Garden for 30 minutes, I made two friends. Technically Roger (some finance dude in the city) just wanted my number, but we had a really great conversation. My other acquaintance (a business man from Boston) gave me his wall street journal to read. And then I ran into someone from my high school. All in 30 minutes.

I’ll be back. Maybe for good someday :)

kathrynkong:

It is true that God is calling us to lives of simplicity, so we do not hold the things of this world too closely and do not fall into the trap of being possessed by our possessions. Yet here is the paradox: it is in becoming poor that we are made rich, it is only in the space that emptiness…

Be all you can be.

The world needs your contribution. 

(Source: workisnotajob, via apalelandscape)

Am I doing my body injustice? I am convinced that, no matter how long I live on the East Coast, I will forever be on PDT (Pacific Daylight Time). New York City/Spring Break. You came at the right time. Most people discover new things when they travel. Whatevs, rediscovery is my word of week. Oh man… How life changes so quickly. If only my head and heart could keep up with it all!

“It is easy in the world, to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

P.S. God, thanks for being YOU. Life is a whirlwind, but you never change.

Yes, I am the queen of getting myself involved in ridiculous things. Tune in to listen to my radio show:  http://blogs.gordon.edu/scotradio/

“Interested in what’s new in the health world? Maybe not, but you wana know why some foods make you feel all happy and giddy and some just make you wana knock out cold? Ya, we thought soooooo. We’re here to tell you the what’s what and good goods of the nutrition world. Who’s eating what these days? And why?! What’s the latest health discovery? and why didn’t anyone tell us that caused hormonal disruptions!?!?! Ya that’s right. If you want to know what’s really going on in the food industry these days we’ll find out. And we’ll tell you. Not only what’s big in Hollywood but also how you can get similar stuff here at Lane! And while we’re at it we’ll hook you up with what’s the latest globally! Do you know what kids our age snack on in China and Brazil, that keeping their population about half the size (strictly pant size speaking) as ours? We’ll find out and we’ll tell you.”

Tune in, Cal-esterol. Tuesdays. 7o’clock, EST

and get happy fast off of quick Maddie-Chelsea facts

degrees. 

it is fifty-six degrees (in Boston) right now. 

it is forty-six degrees (in San Francisco) right now. 

ironic. but I am NOT complaining one bit. don’t worry though, I’m not one of those crazy people outside wearing shorts/dresses/sandals. 

“I was made for sunny days” - The Weepies

Annelise Joy Battles. 

Also referred to as Annz, roomz, ABatz.

Annie and I met on a snowy day two years ago.

A year ago, we decided to be roommates.

I am so thankful for you, roomie! I can’t imagine college without sharing my life with you. West coast, east coast, through the Adirondack mountains and back, Maine, New York, New Hamps… BBR forevs. 

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” Anais Nin

“The more we see, we sing…”

(my second winter in B-town). 

(Source: LIFE)