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summer of film. may be film from now. digital is not holding my attention. unless its on a phone. lo-fi surprises are what i'm looking for. unpredictable. and it's even better when you wait for a long time to develop. who knows how i saw until it sits in my hands. physical film. slower. analog me.

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amazed. mountain of salvation. southern california. somewhere. i want to go. roadtrip soon? anyone?

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emily jewell and i are making stuff together.it's a project on seeing differently.there are images and words now.someday there might be more.what do you see?

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findings on film from summers agowaiting for dawn on south carolina beacheswith girls all of us waiting togetherto become women who understandwe were becoming in the rising of the sunin the misty waves rolling on quicksandin the blues and greens and cool colors of morningin the long apertures of horizon lightmy breath pausedwe couldn't know what we were creating

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fabric leads the eyesfrom flowers to skylook up!life is today

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'Where is the master going?''I don't know,' I said, 'just out of here, just out of here. Out of here, nothing else, it's the only way I can reach my goal.''So you know your goal?'he asked.'Yes,' I replied, 'I've told you. Out of here - that's my goal.'-kafka, the departureUsing recipes I found in my grandmother's kitchen, I learned to bake bread. I worked in her garden and struggled to keep

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old fashionedelevatorup

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a bedroom full of secretsthe door is open

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and watching it all change.

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sadat brings me dark americanosi sit on bar stool. sometimes two.sip sloweyes on notebookpen, let me ride your ink trail through the mist of mepicture windows leadout to yesler waywhere underground tour guideslead crowds toward seattle secretsthe secrets are still secret to me

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took a walk in the freezing day.took pictures.and played.beautiful.

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today a million carrier pigeons descended my seattle apartment to bring me a birthday-gram with singing cupcakes and beautiful presents. so what did i do after i got them all to stop pooping and sit still on my ledge for a moment? good question. i think it's pretty obvious that i put on a fashion show for them. what else?and yes. they all applauded. as well as they could.thanks, sisters!

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some people are secrets. and sometimes secrets are worth telling.vivian maier may be one of this century's greatest street photographers. shooting for 50 years, she is only now being discovered. please take a moment to admire this woman's work.(stumbled upon this video at Broke Little Rich Girl)to view more of vivian's work visit: Vivian Maier Photography or Vivian Maier Online

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i want to live between the earth and the sky.Not to escape reality but to live in a certain kind of reality.where i borrow milk and sugar from the doves.and lay blankets in the grass beneath the canopy for tea party affairs.gather you creatures and heads-of-state and regular folk people and let's rest together here.

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this is my dad.but what i mean way i say that is not, "this is what he looks like."rather, this is my dad in freedom. this is my dad in fullness.as i imagine him.larkin caught him here.ponies are magical.white ponies are more magical.this one is grazing a field of four-leaf clovers.make a wish.(image by carl kleiner)

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today i made this (yup that one up there) and thought it was really beautiful. i was going to put in on top of the pie i made.but then the pie turned out like this:because i dropped it.fail.

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thinking about past things todaywe were happy hidingyou and me

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our bandages weave in to a wedding gown... this is the hope. Alex Dupree and The Trapdoor Band - The Revolution Choir .mp3 Found at bee mp3 search engine

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kevin swiveled on his chairand talked about surrealist futurist novels,black magic and purist catholicsexorcise him they saidbut did you know there are only 5 priestsand they say to rid you of your demons is long and slowwhat about when i say my body is a weapon: to destroy me is to destroy we.do i believe?kevin, cook in black, do you believe for me?we're circling this life raft around and

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my mattress is tipped on its sidebut flowers live underneath

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in the presence of my enemy: meincense wafting church smellsand laughing children drawing circus elephantshe sets me on my knees with sweet wineand covers my doubting tongue with melty honey-breadin the presence of my enemy: mea butter dishmint green melaminewith matching salt shakerhome-place things he gives and says, "stay."in the presence of my enemy: me you at the rookwood secret space

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730 a.m.winding through the streets of queen annelistening to the mormon tabernacle choirand the preacher rattling on about silencestilling and focusing the soul but hetalks and talks and talksafraid to let his voice leave8 a.m.wound down the labyrinth walkstrewn spilled and soaking strawberriesrain dampens the world's noiseonly my shoes parting the ground pools soundinside the church we eight

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seattle is beautiful but i'm missing austin tonight. this was taken on a walk in mueller park one fall afternoon. the sunshine hurt but it was home.

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Since the beginning of the month I've been saying to myself, "Time to sit down and update friends about my life." I had this silly idea that I would have an abundance of time to reflect and say something truly meaningful. In the last 48 hours I've decided to get real with myself about the fact that its just not going to happen and get over it. But since I have been a terrible communicator and

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Out through the fields and the woodsAnd over the walls I have wended;I have climbed the hills of viewAnd looked at the world, and descended;I have come by the highway home, And lo, it is ended. The leaves are all dead on the ground, Save those that the oak is keepingTo ravel them one by oneAnd let them go scraping and creepingOut over the crusted snow, While others are sleeping.And the dead

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i really believe this is the way jesus loves us. XKCD

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public art is one of my favorite things. i love places and art that create space for people to engage in conversation. the bathroom at epoch coffee in austin is a great place to hang out and read. why people feel such freedom to pour their hearts and minds out in a bathroom i'll never know. anonymity i think: to only be known by ones ideas. the current topic of conversation? hell. feel free to

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I want to be a good womanAnd I want for you to be a good manAnd this is why I am leavin'And this is why I can't see you no moreI don't want to be a bad womanI can't stand to see you be a bad manI will miss your heart so tenderAnd I will love this love foreverThis is why I am leavin'And this is why I can't see you no moreAnd this is why I am lyin'When I say I don't love you no moreCause I want to

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I will build you up again and you will be rebuilt, O Virgin Israel. Again you will take up your tambourines and go out to dance with the joyful. Jeremiah 31:4

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we are but small hands in a land of boulders to be moved with shoulders and heaving over rough terrain.

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midnight marching band on the pedestrian bridgeyes. this turned into a dance party.

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Red deep as Tiburon blood spilled in the seasonPromised passion and spoils that were not delivered. Our strawberriesDecayed.

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Brimm: so you know about phoenixes right?me: you mean how they rise from the ashes?Brimm: yah. so is a phoenix an ashley?me: i hope so.

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i'm going to be in a ballet in two weeks! it's a strange feeling because i haven't danced in about 2 years. i'm excited. and a little frightened. i have to buy point shoes. i'm performing in the 3rd act of sleeping beauty as the white cat. its a really adorable character pas de deux. i dance with puss in boots :)life is funny. and wonderful.

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my tongue wrestled my heart for the wordsbegrudgingly, at the end of each round, one word lined up after the otherstrung out on the sidewalka sign of battles fought and the space between me and you my line of surrender to everything that was beyond your sightthe point of misunderstanding: submission to the creator of goodfound in the form of bloodied wordspromises made long agonot knowing why

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new shoots fight to emerge from the decaying earthpast the top soil, bodies litter the groundtears and blood and death: fodder of lifeRise. the sun calls you forth.

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only...

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In true Lenten spirit I am thinking a lot about suffering these days. Last July I was challenged with the idea that suffering is essential to the Christian faith. After spending months reflecting on it I have begun to see how deep and multifaceted the suffering of Christ was, and perhaps still is. This challenging part of faith is something that I would like to ignore. I would like to say that if

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If you get tagged, make a list of 25 random/interesting things about yourself. I've seen a million of these and every single one of them is incredibly interesting. Make one, tag some more friends. And thank you, Luis Cadena, for labeling this the 'herpes of facebook'. Can't get that phrase out of my head...1. I am forever starting new projects and never finishing. I currently have about 4

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Can there be any doubt why this was my favorite city with a view like this? The sun was setting on the city as I arrived so I decided to go and take a walk by the water's edge. As I walked along I was stunned as the sky lit up with brilliant colors and threw them against the hills of Buda. When the sun went down, the bridges and the building lit up and the water absorbed all the colors of the

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I'm thinking of nothing and everything these days.I want to walk with mission and purpose but I get caught up in everyday life. And yet - everyday life is the stuff of mission and purpose. I'm getting set up and living at the same time. It's a confusing, emotional time. I want to run and hide most days. But there are moments when I laugh and sing and rejoice at what God has done here and what He

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"The world grew stranger. Among the hrossa he had almost lost the feeling of being on a strange planet. Here it returned upon him with desolating force. It was no longer 'the world,' scarcely even 'a world':it was a planet, a star, a waste place in the universe, millions of miles from the world of men. It was impossible to recall what he had felt about Hyoi, or Whin, or the eldila or Oyarsa. It

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Back home for the past few days. Back home in Indianapolis. I love it here still. These people are not just friends - they are my family. I've been away 6 months. Too long.We all got to be together this weekend for Krista and Casey's wedding shower. We're all in the wedding party and got to plan this combined shower for the two of them. It was so good to work for the people we love. It was a day

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2008 was a moving year. I moved out of houses and apartments 4 times and traveled to 12 countries. It was a changing year, a trial by fire year, a questioning year, a finding my feet year, a relying on prayer year.All I knew at the beginning of the year was that I was supposed to go to Madrid, that I wanted to go to Madrid and that I had no idea why. I gave reasons like wanting to learn Spanish,

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Notre Dame Cathedral. Paris, France.Walking along the Seine has got to be one of the greatest Paris experiences. The colors of autumn are brilliant - the trees draped in their death clothes. The dilapidated beauty of the fall is the perfect background to the aging city. One thing that struck me in Paris is that everything is constantly

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La Pedrera. Antoni Gaudi. Barcelona.i'm back in madrid. my clothes are washed and hanging. i took an hour long bath and i feel clean for the first time in months. i spent time catching up with my roomies. i made dinner with the fishers and ate christmas cookies. i went to bible study and lunch with mountainview women.in some ways its like nothing has changed. but i look at my pictures and i

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And then back to Madrid.And then back to San Antonio.And then onto Austin.Maybe it's not my last day....

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Ever since I hit Germany I've just been a little tired of traveling. Well... that's not quite strong enough. I have been sick of it, over it, ready to quit.Traveling in Autumn has its perks: fewer tourists, beautiful colors, crisp air. But as I have gotten further north, Autumn has gradually turned into winter: wet, cold, bleak. It rained in Munich, there were freezing winds in Berlin and snow in

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Praise the LORD, O my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name. Praise the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits-who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. The LORD works righteousness and justice for

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i arrived in berlin today! i haven't really been keeping and up to date record of traveling... but from paris i went to vienna, budapest, prague, munich and now here. i'll write more on those later. i came to berlin expecting to love it because i've heard so many good things from people. i haven't had a lot of time to explore it yet but from what i can tell its a pretty accessible city and has an

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Its not even thanksgiving but its already time to think about christmas. Appropriately, im currently in Munich where they have one of the largest christmas markets in the world. How do cities decide on having things like christmas markets? The different things cities become known for is still amazing to me.Every year i get a little sickened at the disaster we have turned the christmas celebration

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i was determined not to love paris. everyone loves paris. i hate cliches. but i suppose that sometimes they're there for a good reason.i flew into beauvais which is about 45 minutes outside the city center and so we had to drive through the countryside to get to the center. it was gorgeous and... i think i've said this about a million times but.. it just has this chaotic beauty. like they don't

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after reading my post 'one body' over again i realized that it sounds jaded, bitter and resentful. i guess in some ways i am all of these things. after thinking a bit i've realized it comes from a couple of places.1. my idealism. i look at things and see what i think they should be. both in the church and in myself. when i complain about the church i am often times lamenting my own personal

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Obama won!i did a little dance in pajamas.acceptance speech over breakfast in budapest.celebration!a good day.

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i am so sick of church.this may sound strange to those who know that i have been working as a missionary for the past 7 months but its true. i did not come to europe to perpetuate an institution but to live into a mission.i find so little truth in the building on sunday and too much dependence on that one day to get us through our week. im sick of hearing pretty words about god and smiling faces

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Home has a much looser definition for me these days.i talk about my home being in Texas where my family lives, where i grew up, where my bedroom and all of my stuff is, where i can swing dance, and where i rediscovered how deep my roots really lie.i talk about home being in Indianapolis where i learned to be independent, struggled with faith, found community and family with a crazy group of

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we learn in economics about limited resources. the system is run with a mindset that there are a finite amount of things to have in the world. and everything turns around this idea. when something is scarce it becomes more valuable and when something is abundant its value cheapens.somehow ive adopted this set of values for my life. i see in myself a tendency to think that i am going to run out of

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barcelona. i'm here but the reality of what i've stepped into hasn't quite hit me yet. for the next two months i won't have a permanent bed, i'll be making transient friends and changing cities every five to seven days. for the past couple days i haven't felt like i was even out of madrid. this is quite a different sort of place but there are still many things that are just so typically spanish.

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this time stuff just slips right by...i don't believe in saying good-bye. there is only hello. we journey until our paths diverge and then continue relationship in new ways. love looks so strange to me at times.pieces of me are staying in madrid. in every heart that has captured mine. tiny pieces of me everywhere. and i worry nothing will hold me together in time.there was paella tonight. and

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We can only live changes: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which we desire to create. -- Ivan IllichThe greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in

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XKCD : A Webcomic of Romance, Sarcasm, Math and Language

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"How we need to be freed from the illusion that we’re doing anything kingdom by voting a certain way every couple years! How we need to wake up to the truth that we vote for or against the Kingdom every day of our life. We vote by how we spend our money and time. We vote by where we live, who we hang out with, the kind of car we drive and the kind of clothes we wear. In the Kingdom, we vote with

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22 September 2008I'm not usually a huge fan of castles, palaces, and things of that sort but PALACIO PENA is an exception. Located in Sintra, Portugal, it was originally a monastary and was bought and restored by Filipe II during his reign in the mid 19th century. Ferdinand II was German royalty who married onto the Portuguese throne and was known as the 'artist king'. His work certainly lives up

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13 September 2008Right now i'm supposed to be on a train to Portugal. Instead i'm sitting here in my room blogging.The problem, you ask?Poor planning + Spanish run-around. ShadowsMistake #1: Not buying my ticket ahead of time. I was going to get my ticket at the website but you have to go pick it up at the station so i figured I'd just buy it at the station. Most of the time you can get a better

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11 September 2008Seasons are changing, the winds are blowing in, and i'm neither here nor there. Strangely, i'm enjoying it. I'm learning more and more to be comfortable in the inbetween.This month marks the beginning of the end for me here with the Mountainview team and, like a sweet, long goodbye, we're letting each other go.Our leadership had a team-building workshop this past week which I

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They're Engaged!!!! Congratulations to the future Mr. & Mrs. Wilson! I love you guys :)

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i went through Christ carwash tonight. not kidding.it's been such a long time since i've gone through a carwash and i forgot how cool it is! my roommates and i were all in the backseat of our friend's car oohing and ahhing as the gigantic, colorful brushes closed in on us. our friend turned up the music and we through laughing. if you had seen us you may have thought we were on an amusement park

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26 August 2008I'm an idealist. I am. And I live in my head half the time which is wonderful until reality hits me with its full force. I have these little categories that I like to put people and events in: each has their box and their role according to my understanding of what they should be. In short - I have expectations.And expectation is a funny little bird.I have a hope for what is to come

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26 August 2008Song of Myself.46.I know I have the bst of time and space, and was nevermeasured and never will be measured.I tramp a perpetual journey, (come listen all!)My signs are a rain-proof coat, good shoes, and a staff cutfrom the woodsNo friend of mine takes his ease in my chair,I have no chair, no church, no philosophy,I lead no mand to a dinner-table, library, exchange,But each man and

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30 June 2008After some really lengthy bonding time with the crew of U.S. Airways flight 741, i went home to San Antonio for a quick visit and some important life stuff! i got to see my youngest sister (Chelsea) graduate from high school and go to my best friends' wedding (Matt & Kendall). here are some revelations I've had about my life in the states:I live in a mansionI should never complain

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