Wednesday, May 30, 2012




"The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do 
not be afraid; do not be discouraged.”
Deuteronomy 31:8





Monday, May 28, 2012

Night, the beloved.  Night, when words fade and things come alive.  When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again.  When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.  
-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry






"These are the days that must happen to you."
-Walt Whitman
Cecilia
Simon and Garfunkel

Cecilia, you're breaking my heart.
You're shaking my confidence daily.
Oh, Cecilia. I'm down on my knees.
I'm begging you please to come home.
Come on home.

Making love in the afternoon with Cecilia up in my bedroom.
I got up to wash my face. 
When I come back to bed, someone's taken my place.

Cecilia, you're breaking my heart.
You're shaking my confidence daily.
Oh, Cecilia. I'm down on my knees.
I'm begging you please to come home.
Come on home.

Jubilation, she loves me again. 
I fall on the floor and I'm laughing.

Jubilation, she loves me again.
I fall on the floor and I'm laughing.



Cecilia
Local Natives

Sunday, May 27, 2012

Alabama Jubilee 2012


"Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton



Every day, I find out something about myself that I would like to improve. 
New goals have been set and I'm excited to achieve them.

Thursday, May 24, 2012

The sound of leaves crunching under your feet.
The comfort and security of an oversized sweater.
The thick, warm smell of a burning campfire. 
The red/pink color of your hands after you've been holding an almost-too-warm cup of cider.
The cool air in the mornings- so crisp that you can taste it. 
.
I'm ready for fall.



Saturday, May 19, 2012

Oh, the stunning eloquence.

-Julio Cortazar 

-Brian Andreas

-Anonymous


Lists are always a good idea.


Phrases that I hope will disappear:
1. "That awkward moment when..."
2. "That's what she said."
3. "YOLO."
4. "kthxbye."


Things I'll never understand:
1. Anything mathematical.
2. Cat obsessions.
3. Sagging pants.
4. Meth.
5. Rihanna obsessions.
6. Lady Gaga obsessions.
7.  People who choose not to read books. 
8. Mayonnaise.


Books that I plan to read this year:
1. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death - Jean-Dominique Bauby
2. Walden - Henry David Thoreau
3. The Vagina Monologues - Eve Ensler, Gloria Steinem
4. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
5. Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's - John Elder Robison
6. The Prince of Frogtown - Rick Bragg
7. The Wisdom of the Desert - Thomas Merton
8. Travels with Charley: In Search of America - John Steinbeck
9. The Happiness Project - Gretchen Rubin


Goals for the summer:
1. Finish math.
2. Travel.
3. Read.
4. Meet people.
5. Grow.




Friday, May 18, 2012

Wish list:

Photo courtesy of: Chandler Jones

Eno hammock for two.
Xylophone.
Accordion.
iPhone.
Job.
Fujifilm Instax 210 camera.
Fall temperatures.
 A Jones soda.
From: Scrap Irony 
by Felicia Lamport
Drawings by Edward Gorey





 Abbey wins the Smallest Face Contest, hands down.


Thursday, May 17, 2012

Once upon a midnight dreary

Harry Clarke's illustrations for Edgar Allen Poe:






Click here for more.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

The nursery rhyme, Death and Burial of Poor Cock Robin with illustrations by H. L. Stevens.
These illustrations are incredible. 
1865.




Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Beautiful.

Handwritten Dictionary of Words
1984
Nick Cave


A breath of fresh air.



     Chandler Jones, an adventurous and talented musician from Florence, Alabama, has been one of my closest pals for many years. During high school, we were inseparable. We spent almost every day together and developed a bond that perplexed many outsiders. When the time came to go off to college, we visited each other frequently. After finishing the first year of college, we both devoted the following year of our lives to growing within ourselves and discovering who we were meant to be--away from each other. Because of the dire necessity of this, we removed each other from our lives entirely.
     Wednesday, we had a heartwarming reunion and then spent the next five days relishing in the excitement of a new-but very old friendship. Each of us have accomplished the goals that we set out to achieve. He's a secure, artful, focused, and ambitious explorer who is fueled by positive energy. I'm a determined, passionate, placid, and open-hearted lover-of-all-things that believes that nurturing the strength of one's spirit is one of the most important things a person can ever do. For us to bring these key qualities of our identities into the light, we had to abandon the things that made sense to us and dive blindly into all things unknown. The result--infinitely better versions of ourselves that desire to continue growing until the very end.

Walking,
talking,
Rivertown's terrible coffee,
Coke in glass bottles,
laughter,
reminiscing,
Dr. Peppers,
roof tops,
antiques,
dancing,
rail slides,
blogs,
poetry readings,
walking,
talking,
hiking,
tours of the Shoals,
card games,
ghost bridges,
hammocking campouts,
mini shows,
much more walking,
much more talking, 
and so, so much more.



"And the tree was happy."
-Shel Silverstein