Saturday, June 12, 2010
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Nica Dinner
(My dinner tonight. Mmmm good.)
I've been missing Nicaragua off and on all day, so I made myself a nice meal of black beans, rice, friend plantains, and avocado.
I should just start doing a job search for places to work down there. Maybe that's not the most lucrative path, but at least I could learn spanish and be surrounded by a culture and a people that I love.
I have a peace about what comes next, though. Tomorrow I start the search. My resume is getting fixed up and pimped up, which is hard for myself cause sometimes I wish that the world didn't function within a market where you have to sell yourself. I actually don't know that I can actually do that successfully, so it may just need to be a case of me putting my best foot forward and God giving favor and open doors. Striving ain't my forte and I don't want to start a precedent of that in my life. Trusting God takes courage. And it preserves character. Sounds like a better option to me.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
a very very unbirthday
it's my half birthday today! woo-hoo!
I get more excited about this day than the celebration of my real day of birth. In celebration...
I get more excited about this day than the celebration of my real day of birth. In celebration...
So Incredibly Lovely...
(thank you Ashley for passing this along. And to Matt for...discovering?)
This song makes me dream and to believe that forever is possible, bringing images like this to mind:
_____________________________
Artist: Fun
Song: The Gambler
Lyrics:
Slow down,
we've got time left to be lazy
All the kids have bloomed from babies into flowers in our eyes.
We've got 50 good years left to spend out in the garden
I don't care to beg your pardon,
We should live until we die.
We were barely 18 when we'd crossed collective hearts.
It was cold, but it got warm when you'd barely crossed my eye.
and then you turned, put out your hand,
and you asked me to dance.
I knew nothing of romance, but it was love at second sight.
I swear when I grow up, I won't just buy you a rose.
I will buy the flower shop, and you will never be lonely.
Even if the sun stops waking up over the fields
I will not leave, I will not leave 'till it's our time.
So just take my hand, you know that I will never leave your side.
It was the winter of '86, and all the fields had frozen over.
So we moved to Arizona to save our only son
and now he's turning to a man, although he thinks just like his mother,
he believes we're all just lovers he sees hope in everyone.
And even though she moved away,
we always get calls from our daughter.
She has eyes just like her father's
they are blue when skies are grey
And just like him, she never stops,
Never takes the day for granted,
works for everything that's handed to her,
Never once complains.
You think that I nearly lost you
When the doctors tried to take you away.
But like the night you took my hand beside the fire
30 years ago to this day
You swore you'd be here 'til we decide that it's our time
Well it's not time, you've never quit in all your life.
So just take my hand, you know that I'll never leave your side.
You're the love of my life, you know that I'll never leave your side.
You come home from work and you kiss me on the eye
You curse the dogs and say that I should never feed them what is ours
and the kids are coming home
I'll set the table
You can make the fire.
This song makes me dream and to believe that forever is possible, bringing images like this to mind:
_____________________________
Artist: Fun
Song: The Gambler
Lyrics:
Slow down,
we've got time left to be lazy
All the kids have bloomed from babies into flowers in our eyes.
We've got 50 good years left to spend out in the garden
I don't care to beg your pardon,
We should live until we die.
We were barely 18 when we'd crossed collective hearts.
It was cold, but it got warm when you'd barely crossed my eye.
and then you turned, put out your hand,
and you asked me to dance.
I knew nothing of romance, but it was love at second sight.
I swear when I grow up, I won't just buy you a rose.
I will buy the flower shop, and you will never be lonely.
Even if the sun stops waking up over the fields
I will not leave, I will not leave 'till it's our time.
So just take my hand, you know that I will never leave your side.
It was the winter of '86, and all the fields had frozen over.
So we moved to Arizona to save our only son
and now he's turning to a man, although he thinks just like his mother,
he believes we're all just lovers he sees hope in everyone.
And even though she moved away,
we always get calls from our daughter.
She has eyes just like her father's
they are blue when skies are grey
And just like him, she never stops,
Never takes the day for granted,
works for everything that's handed to her,
Never once complains.
You think that I nearly lost you
When the doctors tried to take you away.
But like the night you took my hand beside the fire
30 years ago to this day
You swore you'd be here 'til we decide that it's our time
Well it's not time, you've never quit in all your life.
So just take my hand, you know that I'll never leave your side.
You're the love of my life, you know that I'll never leave your side.
You come home from work and you kiss me on the eye
You curse the dogs and say that I should never feed them what is ours
and the kids are coming home
I'll set the table
You can make the fire.
A New Favorite Song
Thank you, Nathan, for the recommendation. I love this song.
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Artist: Ritter Josh
Song: Bone Of Song
Lyrics:
just where it now lies I can no longer say
I found it on a cold and November day
in the roots of a sycamore tree where it had hid so long
in a box made out of myrtle lay the bone of song
the bone of song was a jawbone old and bruised
and worn out in the service of the muse
and along its sides and teeth were written words
I ran my palm along them and I heard
lucky are you who finds me in the wilderness
I am the only unquiet ghost that does not seek rest
the words on the bone of song were close and small
and though their tongues were dead I found I knew them all
in the hieroglyphs of quills and quatrain lines
Osiris—the fall of Troy—Auld Lang Syne
Kathleen Mauvoreen—Magnificat—Your Cheatin’ Heart
the chords of a covenant king singing for the Ark
then I saw on a white space that was left
a blessing written older than the rest
it said leave me here I care not for wealth or fame
I’ll remember your song – but I’ll forget your name
the words that I sang blew off like the leaves in the wind
and perched like birds in the branches before landing on the bone again
then the bone was quiet it said no more to me
so I wrapped it in the ribbons of a sycamore tree
and as night had come I turned around and headed home
with a lightness in my step and a song in my bones
lucky are you who finds me in the wilderness
I am the only unquiet ghost that does not seek rest
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Artist: Ritter Josh
Song: Bone Of Song
Lyrics:
just where it now lies I can no longer say
I found it on a cold and November day
in the roots of a sycamore tree where it had hid so long
in a box made out of myrtle lay the bone of song
the bone of song was a jawbone old and bruised
and worn out in the service of the muse
and along its sides and teeth were written words
I ran my palm along them and I heard
lucky are you who finds me in the wilderness
I am the only unquiet ghost that does not seek rest
the words on the bone of song were close and small
and though their tongues were dead I found I knew them all
in the hieroglyphs of quills and quatrain lines
Osiris—the fall of Troy—Auld Lang Syne
Kathleen Mauvoreen—Magnificat—Your Cheatin’ Heart
the chords of a covenant king singing for the Ark
then I saw on a white space that was left
a blessing written older than the rest
it said leave me here I care not for wealth or fame
I’ll remember your song – but I’ll forget your name
the words that I sang blew off like the leaves in the wind
and perched like birds in the branches before landing on the bone again
then the bone was quiet it said no more to me
so I wrapped it in the ribbons of a sycamore tree
and as night had come I turned around and headed home
with a lightness in my step and a song in my bones
lucky are you who finds me in the wilderness
I am the only unquiet ghost that does not seek rest
Union Station Friendship
A few days ago I went with my sister and my friend into DC to go meander in the Sculpture Garden where a free Jazz Festival was happening. We didn't have much time to chill, but before we headed home we wanted to grab some grub. We all just graduated from school, so the wallet is a bit tight and the food at the festival was expensive.
So we decided to take a walk...definitely longer than I expected...a few blocks to Union Station.
There are some decisions that I look back on and think, "That was one of the best things I ever did with my life." What happened next was one of them.
We finally got into Union Station and took the escalator down to the bottom section. I decided I wanted a smoothie. There were two smoothie shops visible as I turned the corner. I almost went to the one further away, but decided to go instead to the shop closest to the escalator. A lovely Asian woman approached me, smiled hugely, and asked in broken english what I would like. I ordered my strawberry-banana smoothie. She rang me up and asked about my stay in DC. I told her I lived close by, but that a lot of friends were coming up to visit for a graduation party. She congratulated me and wished me a great time. I told her thank you and left (afraid of making her uncomfortable, since I can tend to be overly excited about things like smoothies and people).
My friend started to go to the other smoothies stand, but then decided to get the same thing as me (after tasting the brilliance!). I stood by the counter and waited for my friend to finish, and in the process caught the eye of the lovely lady who helped me. We smiled at each other, and I told her how delicious she made my smoothie.
Suddenly she starts moving towards me, with three oranges in her hands. I was thinking, "Does she want me to buy those?" She put them up on the counter--the most graceful handling of fruit I have ever seen in my life--and looked at me. "These are...a...gift. For you."
I cannot even begin to describe the love that hit my heart and then exploded inside of me in that moment. I looked at her and all I could think was, "You are so beautiful. I love you." It was intense.
We took pictures together (which is a big deal for me, because I'm not usually the one to volunteer myself for a photo-shoot). Then, I had to leave to get home. But I didn't want to leave. I wanted to stay there for hours, asking her about her life growing up in Korea and about her time living in Northern Virginia and working in the metro station.
It was a moment of heart transformation. A moment where a person took precedence over my agenda and my worried thoughts for the future. I loved her. I do love her. She is beautiful. And I think a seed was planted in my heart for the nation of Korea--which is something only God could have done.
I hope I see her again one day. She will probably never know the impact she's had on my life.
So we decided to take a walk...definitely longer than I expected...a few blocks to Union Station.
There are some decisions that I look back on and think, "That was one of the best things I ever did with my life." What happened next was one of them.
We finally got into Union Station and took the escalator down to the bottom section. I decided I wanted a smoothie. There were two smoothie shops visible as I turned the corner. I almost went to the one further away, but decided to go instead to the shop closest to the escalator. A lovely Asian woman approached me, smiled hugely, and asked in broken english what I would like. I ordered my strawberry-banana smoothie. She rang me up and asked about my stay in DC. I told her I lived close by, but that a lot of friends were coming up to visit for a graduation party. She congratulated me and wished me a great time. I told her thank you and left (afraid of making her uncomfortable, since I can tend to be overly excited about things like smoothies and people).
My friend started to go to the other smoothies stand, but then decided to get the same thing as me (after tasting the brilliance!). I stood by the counter and waited for my friend to finish, and in the process caught the eye of the lovely lady who helped me. We smiled at each other, and I told her how delicious she made my smoothie.
Suddenly she starts moving towards me, with three oranges in her hands. I was thinking, "Does she want me to buy those?" She put them up on the counter--the most graceful handling of fruit I have ever seen in my life--and looked at me. "These are...a...gift. For you."
I cannot even begin to describe the love that hit my heart and then exploded inside of me in that moment. I looked at her and all I could think was, "You are so beautiful. I love you." It was intense.
We took pictures together (which is a big deal for me, because I'm not usually the one to volunteer myself for a photo-shoot). Then, I had to leave to get home. But I didn't want to leave. I wanted to stay there for hours, asking her about her life growing up in Korea and about her time living in Northern Virginia and working in the metro station.
It was a moment of heart transformation. A moment where a person took precedence over my agenda and my worried thoughts for the future. I loved her. I do love her. She is beautiful. And I think a seed was planted in my heart for the nation of Korea--which is something only God could have done.
I hope I see her again one day. She will probably never know the impact she's had on my life.
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