- I walked outside today and the sun was shining and I heard birds singing for the first time in months. The snow has all melted for the second time this winter... Spring is fighting back. :-)
- I saw Seven Pounds last night. It's a Will Smith movie, so you can't really go wrong, and the acting and screenplay were excellent, but it was a very dark film.. I have very mixed feelings about that movie... Would Ben Thomas have considered me a good man..? How would I have measured up? It made me think of how fragile life is....who knows how much time we have left... Why am I not giving more? But despite all my mixed feelings, one thing is for sure: it made me appreciate the life that I have. I am so undeservedly blessed..
- When the Hansen Center is completely empty at the end of the day and it's dark outside and the main lights are out and it's all quiet except for the dull hum of the ceiling fans and the soft buzz of the few dim lights left, I think it can be one of the most amazing and yet lonely places in the whole world.
- I wondered today: what is our obsession with publicizing our personal feelings online? Have you ever thought about that before? I'm thinking specifically of Facebook statuses right now, but it applies to blogging too. Maybe it's just me, but I struggle so much with wanting to put something online particularly when I am having a rough time -- usually I don't want to come right out and say that I'm having a rough time, but I'll look for some vague song lyrics to put up or write a poem or think of some other round-about way to hint at the world that things aren't good... And it's all subconscious.... Why? I think that we are a disconnected generation who desperately want to be heard and known and loved anyway....
- Where did all of our peanut butter go???
- I'm currently looking into 4 different schools in Morocco, Israel, Pakistan, and Ethiopia to do my student teaching at. There might be other options other than the ones posted on the list on www.interactionintl.org, but I have to call to find out. Exciting stuff. :-)
- Where in the world is God leading me this summer?? I wish I wasn't so awful at waiting....
- I found a world map today in the Hansen Center while I was on duty about the size of an average poster that was laying near the garbage, so I took it home. It's a nice map... I was trying to decide where to put it up when I finally decided that I would thumb tack it to the underside of the bunkbed above me so that I can look at it as I fall asleep every night... I don't know why -- maybe I'm weird, but I just love looking at world maps... I think I could spend all day in front of the one huge one in the library, just looking at the different countries and dreaming of all the different places in the world... It was a good find today. :-)
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First, a bit on our obsession with sharing our feelings with world. I think it is because we are desperate to be heard, but terrified of rejection. For the most part, people do not post negative responses on Facebook or narrative blogs. So, the cyber world serves as a filter, blocking out a lot of what could potentially wound us. (Disclaimer: there are dangers to this).
Second, I share your obsession with maps. My map was on on the wall by my bunk bed. Every night, I would trace my fingers along the countries of the world and remember those I had left behind and imagine those I would one day meet.
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