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
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