Count every beautiful thing you can see

7 Yarn Things

2011-11-12T07:44:00.000-08:00

7 Lyrics that may or may not mean something completely different to me than was intended.

2011-11-02T09:46:00.000-07:00

1. Your blood, Your bones, Your voice and Your ghost. -Wolf Parade

2. In an ocean of noise
I first heard Your voice
Now who here among us
Still believes in choice?
Not I!
-Arcade Fire

3. In the meadow where the black breeze blows
Underneath the waves you were most alone
Can you hear a subtle aching tone?
-The Shins

4. Oh and if you don't believe in God,
How can you believe in love?
When we're all just matter
That will one day scatter
When peaceful the world lays us down.
-Noah and the Whale

5. And You're my favorite thing,
I tell it everywhere I go
I don't know what to do.
This heart's on fire!
-Wolf Parade

6. We'll be home
When hair has fallen out
We'll be home
When it reaches the ground.
-Wolf Parade

7. So, can I lie in Your grave?
-Say Anything

7 Goals

2011-08-22T14:48:00.000-07:00

1. Take (at least) one [instagram] photo everyday.

2. Knit (at least) a little everyday.

3. Write something (original) everyday.

4. Draw something everyday.

5. Copy something everyday.

6. Play an instrument for (at least) 10 minutes everyday.

7. Listen to a new song, possibly by a new artist, everyday.

Feather & Belle - Tennessee Baby from Feather & Belle on Vimeo.

7 Books I want to read/finish

2011-08-20T05:39:00.000-07:00

1. Crime and Punishment

2. Lord of the Rings series

3. Desiring God

4. The Man Who Was Thursday

5. Leadership & Crisis

6. The Abolition of Man

7. Brothers Karamazov

7 P.G. Wodehouse Quotes

2011-08-11T13:42:00.000-07:00

1. She gave me the impression of being one of those quiet, sympathetic girls whom you could tell your troubles to in the certain confidence of having your hand held and your head patted. The sort of girl you could go to and say, "I say, I've just committed a murder and it's worrying me rather," and she would reply, "There, there, try not to think about it, it's the sort of thing that might happen to anybody."

2. Our views on each other were definite. His was that what England needed if it was to become a land fit for heroes to live in was fewer and better Woosters, while I had always felt that there was nothing wrong with England that a ton of bricks falling from a height on Spode's head wouldn't cure.

3. "No, he came quite openly invited by my future wife. She as a sort of sentimental pity for him. I think she hopes to reform him."
"Girls will be girls."
"Yes, but I wish they wouldn't."

4. And then she said "Oh!" in that choked kind of way. And when a woman says "Oh!" like that it means all the bad words she'd love to say if she only knew them.

5. ...Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.

6. Am taking legal advice to ascertain whether strangling an idiot nephew counts as murder. If it doesn't look out for yourself.

7. The Woosters do not like drinking alone particularly with a critical eye watching to see if their arteries are hardening...

7 Things I don't always look forward to but I really should because I'm usually happy when I'm doing them and always happier when I've done them.

2011-08-09T08:15:00.000-07:00

1. Spending time in bible study. (This shouldn't be in this list but it is.)
2. Laundry (Sorting, folding, hanging)
3. Hand washing. (dishes and clothes)
4. Waking up earlier than the last possible minute.
5. Work. (Meaning "on the clock" work)
6. Studying/Homework
7. Brushing my teeth.

7 Albums (Recently)

2011-08-08T21:05:00.000-07:00

1. Iron & Wine - Creek Drank the Cradle

2. Shout Out Louds - Our Ill Wills

3. Eisley - The Valley

4. Perma

5. Say Anything - Say Anything

6. Mates of State - Bring it Back

7. Shout Out Louds - Work

7 Vocalists

2011-08-07T13:41:00.000-07:00

1. Kori Gardner

2. Sherri Bemis

3. Leslie Feist

4. Stacy King

5. Amy Millan

6. Bebban Stenborg

7. Laura Marling

7 Months.

2011-07-15T09:37:00.000-07:00

"When we were kids, you were the sun to which my eyes would not adjust..."

2010-08-26T15:44:00.001-07:00

When all the noise has left your head...

2010-04-15T10:00:00.000-07:00

"And stated that it's never, ever been better than this."

2010-02-12T22:03:00.000-08:00

Rainer Maria Rilke

2010-01-07T11:07:00.000-08:00

"Wie sich das alles seltsam benimmt,

ineinandertreibt, auseinanderschwimmt:

freundlich, ein wenig unbetimmt.

Wie gut."

"How very strange the world can appear,

blending and breaking, far and near:

friendly, a little bit unclear.

How good."

Iron & Wine, Stars and T.S. Elliot (and Stars)

2009-12-22T07:42:00.001-08:00

Needlework and seedlings

In the way you're walking

To me from the timber

Faded from the winter.

Blanket of clouds the sky have erased

Winter is long and forgiving.

Winter kept us warm, covering

Earth in forgetful snow...

November, December

And all through the winter

I'm alive!

Let's build a flower, watch it grow, and die.

2009-08-31T21:57:00.001-07:00

Stand in the light!

Push the pieces in place

Make your smile sweet to see

Don't you take this away.

Those babies...

2009-07-13T16:19:00.000-07:00

You've got a diamond under your skin.

2009-06-23T10:57:00.000-07:00

Throw me a dream please

It's been a dreamless sleep

For such a long time

Sing myself awake

Watch the branches break

No one could ever take your place

April 2007

2009-05-30T23:43:00.000-07:00

...as 30 dialogues bleed into one.

"Always be true"

2009-05-26T09:08:00.001-07:00

Light will pour out of your eyes

Down into a field of spice

The grass is green the sky is blue

Oh the sun bullies the moon

While the cannons are firing

And the world outsides expiring

I've started making plans

Artificial Light - Rainer Maria

2009-05-25T09:54:00.000-07:00

Latin! Latin! Latin!

"If I could just breath it out.... I could always breath back in
I cut all your wires, I never cared.
I cut all your wires, what could be there?
It's dead.
All the invisible arcs are caught in my head."

"Si vales, valeo."

2009-05-18T15:33:00.001-07:00

"I didn't care where I was going... They're all different names for the same place.

The coast disappeared when the sea drowned the sun.

I've no words to share with anyone.

The boundaries of language I quietly cursed... They're all different names for the same thing."

Happy Birthday... a few days late.

2009-05-14T10:44:00.000-07:00

And then:

Tax Day. Tea Day.

2009-04-20T15:49:00.000-07:00

Everyday is tea day. Every day should be chalk day.

Call me morbid, Call me pale

2009-03-31T20:53:00.000-07:00

For Esme: With Love and Squalor

2009-03-17T13:22:00.000-07:00

Peek in

Into the peer in

I'm not really like this

I'm probably plightless

Would you really rush out?

(for me now)

Your reckless heart... you know you got it

2009-02-15T17:45:00.001-08:00

Blanket of clouds

The sky have erased

Winter is long and forgiving

The summer arrives

The garden's alive

With the mud and the mortar

We're gonna save it,

save it

January. January. January. ...I'M ALIVE!

2009-02-02T11:30:00.000-08:00

Christmas time is here...

2008-11-26T08:07:00.001-08:00

Clean

2008-11-21T14:11:00.000-08:00

Clean and white:

Not so clean:

Clean Room:

Clean(ing) front walk:

Fleet Foxes

2008-11-20T11:34:00.000-08:00

In the quivering forest

Where the shivering dog rests

Our good grandfather

Built a wooden nest

And the river got frozen

And the home got snowed in

And the yellow moon glowed bright

Until the morning Light

I hate school today.

Noah and the Whale

2008-11-18T09:33:00.000-08:00

Sun! Sun! Sun!

All over our faces!

Noah & the Whale make some of the most beautiful music I think I have ever heard.

Fancy

2008-08-21T10:48:00.000-07:00

"We'll be home when hair has fallen out.

We'll be home when it reaches the ground."

"Sunshine!"

2008-07-24T17:59:00.000-07:00

"Give me your eyes, I need the sunshine!

Give me your eyes! I need the Sunshine!"

"Tear your curtains down, for sunlight is like gold!"

This heart is on fire! This heart is on fire!

2008-07-21T21:00:00.000-07:00

"I am my fathers son."

Erik Fromme believed that the ideal personality would be totally in the moment, unconcerned with past or future.

I think Erik Fromme was all wrong. However, I know that, left to my own devices, that is most likely how I would like to live.

Piano! Piano!

Romans 12! Romans 12!

Music! Music!

Salinger! Salinger!

Fitzgerald! Fitzgerald!

Church! Church!

Work! Work!

People! People!

Real-ationships! Re-lationships!

New! New!

Old! Old!

(those were not in order of importance.)

In/ Rainbows In Rain/bows In Rainbow/s In Rainbows/ In Rain_bows

2008-06-29T18:26:00.000-07:00

I am sitting on books.

It is uncomfortable.

I am going to/I have started reading a lot of books.

Today I saw my dad. Today I saw my brother. Today I saw my dad's wife. Today I saw my step-brother.

I am... ache-y. Probably from sitting in a weird position to play the keyboard. But it's good. I'm actually practicing and learning.

This is a good summer. Even if it has some stupid, slight disappointment.

We don't care about the young folks.

2008-06-22T13:39:00.000-07:00

I am happy enough.

With one ill-fated test behind me and two ahead of me. I am happy.

With one math class and 4 semester's left at a school where I can't really feel comfortable. I am happy.

I have dirty hair and dirty clothes and a dirty room and, I am happy.

I have work and babysitting and sleeping and sniffing and blowing my nose and wiping my nose and coughing and sneezing and I am happy.

"Come watch the northern lights with me"

2008-06-17T08:48:00.000-07:00

She had her heart displayed, in the purest of faith.

-Shapes and Sizes.

Can't stop that (sinking) feeling

2008-06-16T08:50:00.000-07:00

If I holler at the moon, would you holler?

Two headed boy, all floating in black.

The sun it is passed now it's blacker than black,

I can hear as you tap on your jar.

I am listening to hear where you are.

Better be prepared to be surprised

2008-06-05T12:17:00.000-07:00

Dan in Real Life... was a pretty good movie. Especially on the second and third viewings.

"I'm not going to lie and say that everyone will be alright and fine until we die but what else can you do but hope and pray and say we'll get by."

"Starting out with nothing but crippling doubt."

2008-04-29T07:49:00.000-07:00

"We'll rest easy... justified."

I like writing songs and recording them. And the nonsense that they are sometimes seems like it might be something more and it's refreshing to continue the compressing until it feels like I have something worth sharing. ...of course, I'm never so daring.

This is how I've been faring.

Love is not love...

2008-04-20T13:09:00.000-07:00

...which alters when it alteration finds.

Love is labor and fortitude... (Brother's Karamozof)

Now I see love there in the scar where you pinched my leg (Iron & Wine)

"Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another...." (Romans 13:8a)

I walked in with just two feet on the ground.

2008-04-14T13:20:00.001-07:00

Mania. Microcosm. Muscle. March. Marionette. Marshmallows. MONDAY

Why is it cold again? I was just starting to enjoy the warm weather. This better come to an end I've got big (atleast regular sized) beach plans for the week after next!

All the sky can't hold these stars they fall back to the ground

2008-04-12T23:47:00.000-07:00

"Lately I've been feeling, been feeling, sooo old."

UT-D: the best chess team in the western hemisphere. Yeah.

Another few days in Dallas... I'm thinking. It always sounds so good and feels so... right.

And I knew the world was over so I took a look outside...

2008-04-06T07:39:00.000-07:00

How we get where we are.

2008-04-01T06:05:00.000-07:00

Class. Watch TV. Knit. Procrastinate. Sleep. Work. Watch TV. Knit. Procrastinate. Sleep. Work. Watch TV. Knit. Procrastinate. Sleep. Church. Baby Shower (knitting pays off). Work. Watch movies. Knit. Procrastinate. Sleep. Coffee. Paper. Tea. Paper. Paper. Paper. Work. Tea. Paper. APA Format. Paper. Go to bed two hours late wake up two hours early. Coffee. Paper. Paper. Shower. ...Blog. Tea?

Eh... Not too bad of a life, really. Stop complaining.

Lit Review

2008-03-31T08:50:00.000-07:00

...Next time I'll start earlier.

a whole wheat bagel + cream cheese and Irish Breakfast Tea (from Twinings, none the less)

Why?

2008-03-28T10:15:00.000-07:00

"And now we ride the circus wheel, with your dark brother wrapped in white."

I am listening to hear where you are.

2008-03-24T11:17:00.000-07:00

"What a beautiful face I have found in this place that is circling all 'round the sun. What a beautiful dream that could flash on the screen in a blink of an eye and be gone from me. Soft and sweet let me hold it close and keep it here with me. And one day we will die and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea. But for now we are young, let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we can see.

...What a curious life we have found here tonight, there is music that sounds from the street. There are lights in the clouds and there's ghosts all around hear a voice as it's rolling and ringing through me. Soft and sweet, how the notes all bend and reach above the trees."

-Neutral Milk Hotel