Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah...

and it's Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, J.D. Salinger, Stieg Larsson, and Herman Melville.

Rhode Island School of Design student Dinah Fried's photograph series Fictitious Dishes is brilliant.

When viewing these, one can imagine himself as the starving Oliver Twist, 

the imaginative and unsettled Alice of Alice in Wonderland, 

The Catcher in the Rye's Holden Caulfield- the classic teenager,

 the sleek investigators of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, 

 or Moby Dick's vengeful whaler and the wanderer, Captain Ahab and Ishmael.

In my opinion...Miss. Havisham's wedding cake, a Christmas goose that belonged to the Cratchit family, and a sweet can of pears that a famous and desperate father-son duo once gobbled down, would also be great additions to the series.

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"Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Sometime, not so far from now, I will not be writing about you anymore. Does that scare you? It should."

-Anonymous

Hurricane Isaac is relentlessly pounding the Gulf Coast and my heart goes out to them. I am showering you all with prayers of safety, peace, and a smooth recovery. 

I love people. I can't help it. I love people as a whole and I love them individually. I love watching people interact. I love hearing boys and grown men laugh. I love seeing little girls and grown women cry. I love that people are soft and warm and that they can't help it. It doesn't matter if their heart is frozen solid-they are warm. I love the smell of a newborn life and the wrinkled, worn hands of an elderly soul. I love observing people when they make decisions, whether it is something crucial and close to their heart or just which meal they want at Chick Fil A. I love taking care of those that are sick and celebrating with those that are well. I love the human heart and how it is both strong and fragile. It carries a human's body through years of ever-changing emotions, illnesses, and events that leave it damaged beyond repair. But still, it continues to beat and beat and beat.

That being said, I love my roommate. 

Tess Davis, you're a champ. You shower me with sincere encouragement and tender kindness. You praise my achievements and coax me through my failures. You understand me, support me, are honest with me, and I'm very thankful to have you in my life.  "Without you, today's emotions would be the scurf of yesterday's." 

Merci.

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"Give light and people will find the way."

Ella Baker

"My heart was too big for my body, so I let it go."

-Anis Mojgani

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And they splashed into the deep blue sea.

Chandler Jones and I have been as thick as thieves since we met. We stood by each other through the years of screamo music, girly ribbons, braces, Relient K, obsessions with the color purple, mohawks, craters, proms, excessive smiley faces in texts, and many tie-dyed t-shirts. The years have shaped us into the people that we are meant to be but even through all of these changes, our friendship has stayed the same. 

Thank you for reading my thoughts and for listening to my stories. Thank you for the countless Chick-fil-a deliveries and private concerts. Thank you for understanding the importance of a good drink, a great smelling candle, and a well-made t-shirt. You've made my days glow since I met you. 

So without further adieu, happy birthday, Mr. Jones! May your 21st be everything that you've ever dreamed of!

Cheers!