Current mood: annoyed Category: Writing and Poetry
I miss Whitworth. (I swear I'll shut up about it soon, but until soon comes, so be it). I went to go see two of my fellow senior give a poetry presentation yesterday. It was awesome. They used parts of my Jan term project as an example and then after class all three of us had a fun, intellectual conversation about the value of multimedia melded with poetry. It was a good time.
Last night I went and saw Brett Dennen and Angus and Julia Stone in concert at the Knitting factory. They all blew me away. I haven't had that much fun at a concert since seeing Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band in Vancouver, B.C. If you don't know of these people, please check them out. I will be posting video too, as soon as I figure out how to transfer video with my new camera...
I got in to EWU's Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing Program for Poetry. I am so excited that I get to keep going to school, growing as a writer, having a community of writers and that I will be producing a manuscript for publication in my second year there. I will also get to do work with Willow Springs and/or Writers in the Communnity and/or EWU Press.
"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves..."
-Anatole France
Currently listening: Not So Soft By Ani DiFranco Release date: 1994-07-26
So, I was reading this blog recommended to me by my professor, Dr. Fred Johnson at Whitworth, and it is done by this guy Sean who loves Nachos and apparently gets a lot of writing work doing book reviews and publishing his own stuff. But what was crazy is that apparently someone he knows wrote a review of a crystal gavel on Amazon and now it is an online literary magazine. He asks people to go and submit reviews. These "reviews" are facinating and the innovation made me want to share it with you all.
Current mood: inquisitive Category: Religion and Philosophy
I have joined a bible study group at Whitworth. It is a small group of four. I am glad to have the opportunity to see what a bible study is all about. I also look forward bringing to the group my beliefs on faith to be examined. I was sent the quote today in an email and found it fitting for the day ahead of me.
"Aharvest of peace is produced from a seed of contentment."
Today was my first meeting with the group, though they have met one time before that I missed. The group seems to be a place where I can be comfortable, which is reassuring. I am not, as many of you know, the sort to join this sort of thing but I think it is something I should not close myself off to. By understanding what goes on in Christianity, I think, like the quote said, can only bring about peace.Well, for me at least...
Current mood: blessed Category: Goals, Plans, Hopes
...and no, I am not pregnant or have a weird wart.
1. I am now tutoring a woman from Saudi Arabia who attends Gonzaga.
2. I was just named Poetry Editor of Script, Whitworth's yearly literary journal. Our first staff meeting is Thursday night.
3. I am still waiting to hear from Grad. Schools but they all planned to respond starting in March anyway.
4. My Vanderbilt application is incomplete due to a letter of recommendation letter error, a post office error and an internal error at Vanderbilt. Suffice it to say I am an EWU transcript and letter of recommendation short. All the other schools have everything, thank goodness.
5. We will be going down to Texas and New Orleans in May after I graduate from Whitworth. We get to see Lucas' family and visit the fabulous Alexis in New Orleans. I have already consumed a Fodor's New Orleans in preparation.
6. My graduation announcement/invitations will be mailed out soon. Get stoked?
Here are links to videos I took of The Spilljoy Ensemble (@Whitworth) and Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful (@ The Empyrean). The Spilljoy ones are dark but sound decent. It's all I can get using a Canon A85. I have just ordered a Kodak Zi6. Way excited to try it out at the next show I go too after it gets here. Enjoy lovely people.
Current mood: blessed Category: Writing and Poetry
I just posted some pictures of the Spilljoy Ensemble. Please do not in anyway let the quality of these photo deter you from how amazing there people are. (It was so dark in the HUB at Whitworth).
These four people make me want to try just that much harder to put my writing out there. I wanted to jump in the rental car with them and 'not smell' Jon Sands, just so I could observe the element the four of them create. What is it like to be around such evolving minds on a twenty-four hour basis? These slam poets are publishing and accomplished and I found them to be a serious source of joy.
So, Spilljoy, I thank you. Come back soon.
Currently listening: Not a Pretty Girl By Ani DiFranco Release date: 1995-07-18
Current mood: thankful Category: News and Politics
The link below provides many names of prominent economists who support and back the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.I am in no way ashamed of my voting for the compassionate, educated and dedicated president that our country now has. Obama is the change that we need. Let him do his job before you decide anything. Oh, and turn off Fox news. It is not healthy nor endorsed by any of those 4 out of 5 dentists...
Current mood: tired Category: Religion and Philosophy
"...aconsciouspartnership is a relationship that fosters maximum psychological and spiritual growth; it's a relationship created by becoming conscious and cooperating with the fundamental drives of the unconscious mind - to be safe, to behealed, and to bewhole."
-Harville Hendrix
Currently listening: truANT By Alien Ant Farm Release date: 2003-08-19
Today in 1945, reggae legend BobMarley was born in Jamaica. A devout Rastafarian and proclaimer of human rights, his music popularized the genre of reggae as well as the faith of Rastafarianism. He is known today as the most iconic reggae musician in the world.
A Quote that fits for Mr. Marley's Birthday: "Never be discouraged from being an activist because people tell you that you'll not succeed. You have already succeeded if you're out there representing truth or justice or compassion or fairness or love."
-Doris Haddock
I blog a lot...it seems to have become the way I save little things that I find important. So, I kinda blog for me, which might be selfish, but it is like the journal I don't have the real diligence to keep. And I like to share :)
Currently listening: Skin and Bones By Foo Fighters Release date: 2006-11-07
A Poem for Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration
Each day we go about our business, walking past each other, catching each other's eyes or not, about to speak or speaking.
All about us is noise. All about us is noise and bramble, thorn and din, each one of our ancestors on our tongues.
Someone is stitching up a hem, darning a hole in a uniform, patching a tire, repairing the things in need of repair.
Someone is trying to make music somewhere, with a pair of wooden spoons on an oil drum, with cello, boom box, harmonica, voice.
A woman and her son wait for the bus. A farmer considers the changing sky. A teacher says, Take out your pencils. Begin.
We encounter each other in words, words spiny or smooth, whispered or declaimed, words to consider, reconsider.
We cross dirt roads and highways that mark the will of some one and then others, who said I need to see what's on the other side.
I know there's something better down the road. We need to find a place where we are safe. We walk into that which we cannot yet see.
Say it plain: that many have died for this day. Sing the names of the dead who brought us here, who laid the train tracks, raised the bridges,
picked the cotton and the lettuce, built brick by brick the glittering edifices they would then keep clean and work inside of.
Praise song for struggle, praise song for the day. Praise song for every hand-lettered sign, the figuring-it-out at kitchen tables.
Some live by love thy neighbor as thyself, others by first do no harm or take no more than you need. What if the mightiest word is love?
Love beyond marital, filial, national, love that casts a widening pool of light, love with no need to pre-empt grievance.
In today's sharp sparkle, this winter air, any thing can be made, any sentence begun. On the brink, on the brim, on the cusp,
praise song for walking forward in that light.
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The Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire Opening Inaugural Event Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC January 18, 2009 Welcome to Washington! The fun is about to begin, but first, please join me in pausing for a moment, to ask God’s blessing upon our nation and our next president. O God of our many understandings, we pray that you will… Bless us with tears – for a world in which over a billion people exist on less than a dollar a day, where young women from many lands are beaten and raped for wanting an education, and thousands die daily from malnutrition, malaria, and AIDS. Bless us with anger – at discrimination, at home and abroad, against refugees and immigrants, women, people of color, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. Bless us with discomfort – at the easy, simplistic “answers” we’ve preferred to hear from our politicians, instead of the truth, about ourselves and the world, which we need to face if we are going to rise to the challenges of the future. Bless us with patience – and the knowledge that none of what ails us will be “fixed” anytime soon, and the understanding that our new president is a human being, not a messiah. Bless us with humility – open to understanding that our own needs must always be balanced with those of the world. Bless us with freedom from mere tolerance – replacing it with a genuine respect and warm embrace of our differences, and an understanding that in our diversity, we are stronger. Bless us with compassion and generosity – remembering that every religion’s God judges us by the way we care for the most vulnerable in the human community, whether across town or across the world. And God, we give you thanks for your child Barack, as he assumes the office of President of the United States. Give him wisdom beyond his years, and inspire him with Lincoln’s reconciling leadership style, President Kennedy’s ability to enlist our best efforts, and Dr. King’s dream of a nation for ALL the people. Give him a quiet heart, for our Ship of State needs a steady, calm captain in these times. Give him stirring words, for we will need to be inspired and motivated to make the personal and common sacrifices necessary to facing the challenges ahead. Make him color-blind, reminding him of his own words that under his leadership, there will be neither red nor blue states, but the United States. Help him remember his own oppression as a minority, drawing on that experience of discrimination, that he might seek to change the lives of those who are still its victims. Give him the strength to find family time and privacy, and help him remember that even though he is president, a father only gets one shot at his daughters’ childhoods. And please, God, keep him safe. We know we ask too much of our presidents, and we’re asking FAR too much of this one. We know the risk he and his wife are taking for all of us, and we implore you, O good and great God, to keep him safe. Hold him in the palm of your hand – that he might do the work we have called him to do, that he might find joy in this impossible calling, and that in the end, he might lead us as a nation to a place of integrity, prosperity and peace. AMEN.
This blog is cut and pasted from my facebook. I felt the need to share my 25 Random things with you lovely people (and Shannon also said "I am never on Facebook,so put it on your MySpace so I can read it!") so here it is:
Rules: Once you have been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you.
(To do this, go to "note" under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your 25 things, tag 25 people (in the right hand corner of the app) then click publish.
1. I am a nerd and hoped I would be tagged. Thanks Sarah! :)
2. I wish I was at Whitworth for spring semester. Finished graduation requirements are a double edged sword.
3. I'm trying to write 30,000 word this month. It is my late NANOWRIMO.
4. I have no idea where I want to go to grad school even though I have four applications out. I want to be adventurous, but part of me also just wants to write in my little spokane house and raise kids.
5. I take pride in being a feminist and it causes some cultural and personal conflicts for me (see above).
6.I could eat sushi everyday.
7. I partied a lot in 2008. I think i was making up for my lost early twenties. I think I am done now. It feels out of my system.
8. I want to like turkish delight but I don't.
9. I want to do Slam Poetry. But I am a chicken.
10. I want to have a non-working farm someday with goats, chickens and a huge garden that I may sell vegetables from at a farmers market.
11. I wish I had been twenty-something in the 1950s.
12. I don't like jeans.
13. I love ashtanga yoga.
14. I actually do think that Disneyland is one of the happiest places on earth.
15. I fear and love Paris. It is everything I ever dreamed of AND MORE. I had dreams of teaching english in France for about three months. Scratch that...I still do.
16. I have had very few life goals and at twenty-eight I have achieved half of them (going to London, buying a house, marriage, kids). The ones that seem most prominiently left are a house with one more bedroom and one more child. And visit Ireland. oh, and the farm.
17. I never thought I would see the change Barak Obama has brought to our country in my lifetime. I believe I now live in a post-racist America. This is because any racists left are sad and in a huge minority and are like neo-nazis...Not taken seroiusly and historically obsolete.
18. I hated all of high school axcept for my Junior Year. That one was great.
19. My favorite body part is my wrists.
20. I got married at "The Hitching Post" in Coeur d'Alene. So did my parents.
21. I used to be in a band called "The Honeybuckets".
22. I wish I had taken advanced writer's workshop
22. My filmmaking bug has been reactivated (it has been sleeping since 2000) by Dr. Fred Johnson's Digital Storytelling class that I took during Jan Term.
23. I had three best friends in the time between grade school and High school. None of them liked each other. I found it strange, because they were all fabulous and still are.
24. I had no idea that Hannah Montana and Miley Cirus were the same person till this summer when I asked my highly amused younger siblings on a road trip.
25. I was published at a online journal called Tulip in January. It made me feel that there was hope in what I have been dedicating my life to for the past three years.
http://frugalhacks.com/2008/05/30/hot-dog-buns/ Dinner Tonight- Cheese Strata 2 1/2 c. shredded cheese 6 eggs, slightly beaten 2 c. milk 1 tsp. salt 1/4 tsp. dry mustard Garlic to taste Spread a layer of hot dog buns (break them up into chunks if you like, and you can use any bread) in the bottom of a grease 9X13 pan.
Currently listening: Unglamorous By Lori McKenna Release date: 2007-08-14
Current mood: thoughtful Category: Web, HTML, Tech
I put up a website that currently houses my final project for Digital Storytelling. I am going to be working on it this week since I am now done at Whitworth and need to get on my "Writer-ly" practices. Check it out if you wish.
http://www.wix.com/ffiredoor5/Jennifer-McIntyre
Currently listening: The Con By Tegan and Sara Release date: 2007-07-24
Today is Inauguration Day in the United States. The tradition of investing the President on this day dates back to Franklin Roosevelt's inauguration in 1937. Festivities marking the swearing-in of Barack Obama as the 44th president were scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. at the west front of the U.S. Capitol. The official inaugural site noted that, for the first time ever, the length of the National Mall would be open to those wishing to attend the swearing-in ceremony.
A quote that fits this historic and hope-filled occasion:
"Allmoments of turning around, of lettinggo, of forgiveness are moments of pilgrimage, which take us from our hard-hearted ways to a land we have not yet known." -Brenda Shoshanna
On an unrelated note, "Birds of America" was a fabulous movie. Watch it.
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