JK Wedding Entrance Dance

best wedding video ever. forget sentimental crap.

on the solar eclipse....

"You can't find words to adequately describe it," Charles Fulco, a middle-school astronomy teacher from New York, told CNN. "You become addicted. You need to see the next one. You count the days and years until you do. Nothing else compares to it."


not quite what I would say, but to each his own, right?!

Love146 - The History

ugh

dear life,

I know I complained when you bored me a bit. However, you can stop all this nonsense and let's get back to being boring again. Deal? Deal.

sincerely,

me

I have been reminded lately of the words from a poet I have begun to love - the words he penned to a fellow writer, the words that my heart has been wrapped around for the past few years. Since my postings have become few and far between, I thought I'd share what I've been reading of late!

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Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

--Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

finally...I am explained!

About a year ago, my sister became interested in the whole idea of birth order - why we are the way we are, according to the lineage in which we were born. I didn't give it much thought, until my neighbor recently came over to hang a curtain rod for me. When it was up, he asked me where I was in the birth order line up. When I told him I was the youngest, he replied "oh good. You aren't a first born perfectionist." It was his statement that got me interested in this whole birth order thing. I went to the library, checked out a book, and came home to read about "why I am the way I am." I went into it thinking that this was just some way to try to explain away all the reasons we act like we do, but as I started the book, I realized there was something to it: it described my sister and I perfectly, as though the author had done his case study on us. It's really interesting - for a very brief overview of birth order, you can click here. If you want more in depth, hit up the local library for a couple of solid books. I am currently reading Birth Order & You, by Dr. Ronald Richardson. My sister has read The Birth Order Book: Why You Are the Way You Are by Dr. Kevin Leman. Both are great reads - what are you waiting for?!

ps: you can take a look at the website and figure out what my birth order is...see how well you know me!

sickly sweet

My best friend made this. Yes, MADE it. Every part of it. Even the basket and tissue paper. It's ridiculously amazing, I know. She's just good like that.