Thoughts

I'm thinking about the way a certain headband makes me look like Cinderella

I'm thinking about college church and Andrew's message

I'm thinking about the way Jessa's laughter fills me with smiles

I'm thinking about the man I want to be married to

I'm thinking about high school

and theatre

drama

lightening bugs

I'm thinking about the way I try to avoid working out

make excuses

but once I actually do it, I like it

I'm thinking about SLU

teaching a class

being a freshman

and how it feels to be half-way done with college

what do I want to do with my life?

I'm thinking about life

and the sky

and the earth

my potted plants on the back porch, tiny toothpicks holding up the one stalk which might make it

I'm thinking about writing

my journal

the woman at CVS behind me in line

and her leopard print shirt

I'm thinking about camp, and Heather, and how much I love nature

little kids

and water

I'm thinking about Leah

summertime

the wonderful conversation with my father last night

all the poems inside me, waiting to be written

and the song I sing inside my head

Hello, old friend

Wow, I haven't blogged in awhile. Not like I was so "committed" to this blog before. But that's all about to change. First, mainly because of James Canfield, my left half. He's wonderful, talented, funny, charming...the list goes on. Basically, we complete each other in the friendship realm. Anyway, he has started a blog (here's the link:) and it's fantastic and now I am inspired anew to come back to my own blog.

Another reason I am coming back to my old friend, this blog, is because I am taking the best class of my life, social justice, with Dr. Chmiel at SLU. It's my ultimate favorite class, hands down. I love it because we get to be real. The students all know each other's names (and many of us have never met before). We share life lessons, stories, reactions to things we read, and we write. We write in these lovely little composition books, and we can say whatever we want, because the comp books are for us. We look at important issues, like the war in Iraq, but we also share funny moments, times when we feel/see love. I would highly recommend it to anyone interested in social justice. Anyway, being in this class and writing in my notebook has re-awakened my love of writing. I'll probably post some things I write in that notebook. And I am okay if no one likes what I write, or cares about what I write, or thinks the things I write are trash. That's okay! Everyone is entitled to their own opinions. And I'm not writing for you (to be quite blunt). I'm writing for me. For the way it makes me feel to create.