on god and tetris

october 2010 entry

i was asked to write an article for my church's young adult publication...

.passion.

photo by claire johnson

20 questions that could change your life

i came across this article awhile ago and thought i would post it here.

incase, by some chance, they change your life.

sometimes in life...

sometimes in life you find a special friend
someone who changes your life - just by being part of it
someone who makes you laugh until you can't stop
someone who makes you believe that there really is good in the world
someone who convinces you that there really is an unlocked door just waiting for you to open it..

i found this collage that i made for one of my design assignments at Graceland. the people in the photos are girls who i lived with, breathed with, at Graceland from my house "Shalom". except the one in the large photo in the middle - that's my sister. i put this quote with it because i really liked the quote and cared alot about the people in the photos. They were special friends in my life. it's funny as i look at this now... probably 7 years later... i don't really ever talk to any of them, except my sister.

although at that time in my life, they were special. they did make me laugh. they were there for me. they inspired my life. maybe in some way changed it, even.

it's funny how, in just a few years, things change. how people change. how the people who are important in your life change. how you find out who are your real, life-long, friends forever, family even. who is willing to make the effort to stay in contact, and stick around. who is actually there in the end.

now, i can think of a whole new collage of people who fill this spot in my life.

sometimes in life...things change. sometimes for the better...



who are the important friends in your life, at the moment?

inspiration from a friend

the pursuit of happy-ness



remember that time...

instruction manual for life

to all my friends facing life changes, new adventures, life struggles, and uncertainty...

"You are so young. You stand before beginnings. I would beg of you, dear friend, as well as I can, to have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not look now for answers because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to LIVE the question. Perhaps you will gradually without even knowing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day."

- Letters to a young Poet

May today there be peace within.

May you trust that you are exactly where you are meant to be.

May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born in yourself and others.

May you use the gifts that you have received,

and pass on the love that has been given to you.

May... you be content with yourself just the way you are.

real estate

I've decided that the next place i live:
- will be "in" the city, not near the city. i want to live in the culture, in the midst of people's lives, and walking-distance from local food, drink, and shopping establishments
- will be near a local coffee shop that I can sit in, meet with friends, drink coffee, have a "usual", write, and dream for hours on end whenever I want. My own Central Perk.
- will be based on the quality and look of everything around it and not necessarily what the actual place looks like
- will have hardwood (or fake wood) floors and windows
- will be convenient for public transportation but not inconvenient to drive to and park
- will inspire me. will be mine. will be home.



I am grateful to have been loved and to be loved now and to be able to love, because that liberates. Love liberates. It doesn’t hold - that’s ego. Love liberates. It doesn’t bind. Love says, ‘I love you. I love you if you’re in China. I love you if you’re across town. I love you if you’re in Harlem. I love you. I would like to be near you. I’d like to have your arms around me. I’d like to hear your voice in my ear. But that’s not possible now, so I love you. Go.’

—Dr. Maya Angelou

it must be time to move on now..

Seems I was walking in the wrong direction. I barely recognize my own reflection...



without the fear of how it might end...

random dance at flinders street station

i was standing by the coffee shop in the corner (with the red sign) when this happened..



merry christmas

this flash mob was created by the sister of a friend of mine in canada.
last week I was in adelaide, south australia and a lady i had never met before showed me this youtube video that had been sent to her that she was touched by.
how inspiring this must have been to be spread all across the world.