 | Current mood:  angsty Category: Life ...if I weren't so responsible. (and, I guess, if I had more money) 1) have a baby 2) buy a ticket and go see Alexis in New Orleans this weekend and party my ass off 3) get back in time and then go to day three (Sept. 1st) of Bumbershoot and see Tegan and Sara, Mike Doughty, Xavier Rudd, etc 4) go visit the kick ass Grad schools I am thinking of going to (Naropa anyone?) 5) Visit Emily and party my ass off in Colorado Springs. 6) Move to France next year and teach English 7) Have another baby 8) Take my Grandfather on a train ride through Alaska 9) Follow Conor Oberst for a whole freakin' tour with Shannon.
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| Current mood: betrayed Category: Writing and Poetry My old soul laughs at your infant soul Its depths as shallow as runs in a grain of rice It weeps for what you will not know for centuries: manners, upkeep, love.
There is nothing that is worth being a new soul In THIS world, I only hope my soul will only be renewed there Where life is eternal and reflected upon And knowing that I can look back And see change and growth While you will only have dirt and mistakes and stupidity.
My soul weeps for your infant soul Its lack of trust and caring Its need to get ahead I will not falter in this My belief of the old soul The one that can hear tomorrow In nothing but a drop of cane.
J. McIntyre
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| Current mood:  cooky/wacky Category: Life
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| Current mood:  sleepy Category: Religion and Philosophy What is most characteristically human about us is the tension between the desire to be "free"--self-identifying and self-choosing--and to be "related" to love and be loved. -Paul Tillich
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| Current mood:  bummed Category: Life We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. -Charles Swindoll
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| Current mood: angry Category: Goals, Plans, Hopes WASHINGTON - Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards on Friday admitted to an extramarital affair while his wife was battling cancer. He denied fathering the woman's daughter. Edwards told ABC News that he lied repeatedly about the affair with 42-year-old Rielle Hunter but said that he didn't love her. He said he has not taken a paternity test but knows he isn't the father because of the timing of the affair and the birth. A former Edwards campaign staffer claims he is the father, not Edwards.
Can anyone have a hero anymore!?!?!? I mean, I am not in the Edwards family and I have never had a spouse dying from cancer, but I would think cheating on said spouse would not cross my mind. This especially sucks after going to a memorial service for the Beloved Nadine Chapman this morning at St. Augustines who died from Ovarian Cancer.
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| Current mood:  blah Category: Writing and Poetry Nine, eight…
She has been forced out and torn Used but not worn. Not a mark left like she would have cared for.
Missing lips like normal breaths, wanting normalcy where there can be none.
Then it is this smiling face that appears bright in the memory always present and fully of that which lends you to calm.
Thoughts of lying down still the concave discs and their hitchhiking iron allowing for the deeper breathes needed to make it to the next stone step.
J. McIntyre
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| Category: Life One of this most wonderful people I have ever met, Dr. Nadine Chapman, has left this world. I mourn the loss of the chance to ever speak with her again. She was a tremendous mentor and friend. She fueled my love for creative non-fiction and my love of writing in general. It will be difficult to return to campus in the Fall and not have her smiling face there.
Letter from Dr. Micheal K. Le Roy:
Dear Campus Community: On Sunday we were grieved to learn that Dr. Nadine Chapman, Associate Professor of English, passed away after a four year battle with ovarian cancer. Nadine was an accomplished author, excellent teacher, and beloved colleague in the Whitworth community. Her husband John told me this morning that teaching at Whitworth was the highlight of Nadine's life. For this reason John, and his four children – Keely, Johnny, Madeline, and Ian – would love to hear any memories or stories that help them to celebrate Nadine's life at Whitworth. Please feel free to send your stories to the family at chapman.j@comcast.net.
Last fall I had the pleasure of reading some of Nadine's non-fiction essays included in her application for promotion to Associate Professor. Her writing illuminates the acuity of her mind and the sensitivity of her heart in poems like "What Is This Passion for Journey . . ."
". . . There is nothing shy about St. Francis or his disciples Here big prayers require large candles You light one ask help for my blood-starved heart
Perhaps we won't go home at all but take the way of a pilgrim the cherubinic wanderer disperse our sheltered past among relatives and join composers of heartsongs for this war-scarred world"
Nadine was a gentle, quiet person, but there was nothing shy about her devotion to Christ and her love of her family, friends, students, and colleagues. We will miss her and grieve her loss to our community. The family will hold a burial service for Nadine in Cottonwood, Idaho this Friday. Anyone interested in timing and driving directions to the cemetery in Cottonwood should call Nadine's daughter, Keely Chapman, at 280-8328. The memorial mass for Nadine will be held next week on Friday, August 8, at St. Augustine's on Bernard and 19th where Nadine was the cantor and communicant for many years. The time has still not been determined, but we will follow up with more information about the time when we know it. As we remember and celebrate Nadine, I would encourage the community to extend comfort to Nadine's students and colleagues in the English department. The President's cabinet will meet on Wednesday to discuss how we will celebrate Nadine's thirteen years of service to Whitworth when students and faculty return in September.
Sincerely yours,
Michael K. Le Roy, Ph.D. Vice President, Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty Whitworth University Spokane, WA 99251
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| Current mood:  stoked Category: Goals, Plans, Hopes New Poet Laureate: Kay Ryan On July 17, Kay Ryan was appointed the 16th Poet Laureate of the United States. About her work, J. D. McClatchy has said: "She is an anomaly in today's literary culture: as intense and elliptical as Dickinson, as buoyant and rueful as Frost." A chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Ryan will be featured in the upcoming Poets Forum in November. Her books are for sale in the Poetry Store, and a video, recordings, poems, and a profile can be found on Poets.org.
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| Current mood:  thirsty Category: Writing and Poetry Respect
And I don't understand why she stays, for the moments time has caught. Why she clings to something with so much hope that ought best be forgot.
The tracing of the face (I see in my mind) is done like parody like a funeral for the other dead deals and broken hearts hanging out with the jerks, working Wal-Marts.
Pain is there No one is naïve But they choose to keep on that fighting is right and they could be correct but how much can you spend when it comes to Respect?
J.McIntyre
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