I've just met an old friend for the first time.

T. H. White's  THE ONCE & FUTURE KING is my new favorite book.

i enjoy many novels and smile at the characters and the language...

but the stories that are my friends... not mere acquaintances seem to be ones that i don't know anyone else has read...

obviously they are classics...

but no one takes the time to read them anymore...

at least not of my friends.

pass the port.

i absolutely love this book and i'm only to the IVth chapter.

my imagination "took flight" while reading it and has grown to weigh 4 kilos more than it did before checking this book out.

i want to drive up to the big cemetary tomorrow morning and spread out a blanket and read.

something about heaven that i love thinking about is that there are friends i do not know yet.

people who wrote some of my favorite books may be there...

people who were in the bible and people from other countries who speak different languages...

people i've never met may be my best friends...

thats sort of how i feel about books that are SO me.

its like this deep connection of magic thread tying our souls together.

as you read you just find so much delight in finding yourself in the pages and knowing you were there before your eyes glimpsed the pages....

i've been here before! my brain exclaims as i pass by the words.

i've grown to understand the things in this book before i ever read it...

and they so much define who i am its as though i'm reading my own adventures.

i love it.

merlyn is my hero.

and archimedes is my best friend.

tuesday night bible study

made these today for the college group bible study

i'm working on ideas for saturday's & thursdays.... but they aren't as cool as this one yet.

todo:

running at the track 2 miles today.

come back & shower.

clean room/fold laundry.

eat lunch.

check music blogs and GET FREEEEE things.

call andrea and hear about alaska.

schedule for school.

read THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING.

read up on nietsche's return theory.

quilt? pillows? scarf/ hankie pillows.

HAKEN man.

maaaaan alive this guy is a talker.  

JEEZE what is he even talking about...

i'm sitting in this meeting and mike is trying to get this guy to start to condense his words... 

he interupts him like every 2 minutes to try and refocus.

its gettttttting ridiculous.

i'm sooo bored.

i'm going to jr high camp now

eek.

on one hand i'm sorta nervous because i hope my attitude doesn't get the better of me.

GOD HELP ME BITE MY TONGUE.

i'm don't agree with the speakers teaching style.  

honestly i think he's horrible for children and i would not want my children to be mentored by someone who feels the need to make christianity into a big joke in order to force feed it to people.

sure : a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down... la la laa

but Christianity's "sugar" or whatever is going to be THE LOVE OF JESUS period...

you don't need to sell stupid tee shirts that read "fart on the devil" or wear a rubber chicken on your head to get kids to want Jesus.

(sorry ill stop... i'm on a "relevancy" soap box)

i just don't like being treated like an ingrate because i'm young... and i don't like seeing people do it to kids younger than me either.

it makes me wonder if HE found Jesus because someone made a fool out of themselves and only gave them placental liquid when they needed something almost solid food wise.

if so ill eat my words.

of COURSE i know that God always moves at camp...

he moved the last year this guy spoke and he'll move again... 

theres far too many people who are head over heels in love with jesus helping for it to be lost on the kids...

but it just makes me sad because how much better would chapel be if the speaker was someone who understood the place children have in Gods kingdom and preached out of that?

Tis' a truth universally acknowledged...

watching Becoming Jane depresses me.  

you have to though.  its so bittersweet and you need that sometimes...

but now it must be counteracted by some pride & prejudice.

i would do mansfield... but i don't own that one yet.

WEIRD.

ok... i'm sorry but i find it super weird how many professional models come out of sunset high school..

kerry degman.. yeah that was weird.

 but then theres just like 15 random girls from ALL over the board who are like in magazines.

thats weird.

i'm sorry... but its weird for me.

like julia ohman... WHO KNEW?  just weirds me out kinda that theres people who really do modeling and its liek normal.. that seems so abnormal to me.  idkdidkdidkdikdidd