The Fellowship of the Ring

Observation of their tidiness with pronunciation. Ev-IL not ev-UL. There was another word that I noticed, but now forget...perhaps it was "peril".

I don't want to become sloppy. So if I start using the words like evil and peril more - it's just because I am practising.

Thought to tag on to that. Which is more annoying: poor pronouncation or bad grammar?

Personality and Character

Recent thinking--of the difference between personality and character.

I think personality is given. It needs more acceptance and love from us rather than adjustments. Does that mean it never needs any change? I don't know. Maybe it naturally evolves as we live. Yet character is a choice. Something that needs to be grown. Doesn't immediately appear. Effort.




I have been thinking that personality is more for people to see, and character more for God to see. Though that doesn't mean people are ignorant of my character, nor God of my personality.

It sucks when people fake either.

If personality is the font, character would be ...the text?



Still a process in my thoughts, would like to know yours.

Entertainment of the night

she liked this

Kam isn't one to go crazy on other people, she'll just go crazy on her own. I think that's how I said it.

belonging

resumed playing the piano
am liking not having a computer
cutting up fruit
lined instead of blank paper
friends from every continent
starting to wear nail polish
smells of bread

flourishing

You are on my side

So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised. For in just a very little while,

"He who is coming will come and will not delay.
But my righteous one will live by faith.
And if he shrinks back,
I will not be pleased with him."

But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who believe and are saved

Hebrews 10:35-39

.... ............. where do the wildflowers grow

how much time are you going to honour your distractions with

thoughts

what if there were no faces in facebook.. (maybe there's no "what if")

does wind travel in a line
does it follow our lines

is there a way I can validate if a smell is real or reproduced

is this the best place to express thoughts?
is there an ideal output
is the output even the goal

the latter

draw what you see
or draw what you see

Something to try. Take a different route home than usual, and not just once.

Not a dominant sense that we always rely on, I love smell. It is ephemeral, there is no way (that I know of) to immortalize it. There's no photographic equivalent. A captured and sealed smell would become stale, and any chemical reproductions would be fake. Some nice smells today: the creek beside me on a bike ride, wild flowers, soap.

What makes you thrive?

Being in a large open space not confined by any walls; just looking and observing without thinking or judging; eating good healthy food; waiting without an immediate response; long bike rides that make my legs hurt, yet feel so good.

So I wonder, God, what makes you thrive? I think it is when we do.

Silence

Assail

Assail, originally uploaded by changingtowers.

delicate music

Today, I found written on a desk "YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT"
I crossed out EAT and wrote CONSUME.

Words

Vocabulary that has latched on to me while being in university.

embody/embodiment
negate
juxtaposition

I will update if I think of more.

Saturday Morning

$24 at Value Village

The Ugly Duckling - Hans Christian Andersen
The Steadfast Tin Soldier - Hans Christian Andersen
The Complete Adventures of Peter Rabbit - Beatrix Potter
The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin - Beatrix Potter
The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse - Beatrix Potter
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Tale of Jemma Puddle-Duck - Beatrix Potter
By the Shores of Silver Lake - Laura Ingalls Wilder
Who Has Seen the Wind - W.O Mitchell
Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Graham
A Bargain for Frances - Russell Hoban
Go Ask Alice - Anonymous
The Velveteen Rabbit - Margery Williams
Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson
The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
Atonement - Ian McEwan
The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown

On Amazon.ca it would have cost me about $188.00, before taxes.

I arranged my books in colour.