December 2011
25 posts
2011
prepare for cliched end-of-year ramblings.
really though, i think i realized two days ago that new year’s day actually meant a new year. dumb, i know, but i think i just hadn’t been thinking of it that way. when you’re 22, you’ve been trained to think on a school calendar for your whole life, and thus the end of summer is always a strange form of new years. but when i...
this break
has been possibly some of the best time i’ve spent with my family. ever. christmas movies and singing seal songs with the siblings, eating eating eating yet somehow losing weight, bluegrass music and old eagles records, kitty snuggle time, dog snuggle time, mom+dad+amy dinners, baking up a storm, lazy time at the house, not getting entirely sick of crazy relatives, and enjoying hugging new...
eject: Nurse Reveals Top 5 Regrets of the Dying →
i love number 5. the idea of happiness as a choice is beautiful. number 3 also strikes a chord with my fear of confrontation.
Gingrich's message to gay Americans: Vote for... →
disgusting.
but….at least he’s honest? i dunno. i’m reaching here.
fit
sometimes when you move away, its hard to know where you fit anymore. and that’s not to be taken as some disparaging emo statement, its just that i’ve always had my place, at home in knoxville and in nashville. and i have one, still. i have a place in tennessee. it is home, and there will always be a place for me. i’m just unsure of where it is at the moment, because it has...
giggles.
Hitchens: paying my dues →
conjectureandrefute:
I liked him. I once read his books approvingly, thinking he achieved much more than he actually did. Now I realize that most of his conclusions are at best plausibilities— certainly not Truths of the type he purported them to be as he rammed them down the throats of evangelicals. Do I respect him?…
well said, cameron. well freaking said.
i love looking back on what i said 6 months ago →
because sometimes we tell ourselves exactly what we need to hear, you know?