"Don't you think that any secret course is an unworthy one?"
Charles Dickens
Saturday, September 30, 2006
Friday, September 29, 2006
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Yesterday's Quote of the Day
"Remember our agency is not only for us. We have the responsibility to use it in behalf of others, to lift and strengthen others in their trials and tribulations."
Elder Robert D. Hales
It is easy as singles who are working hard to find our own place in the world to worry about how to use our agency to make the right personal choices. This is good and it is right, but we must realize that while we may have doubts and insecurities in making many of our life choices, there is no doubt and there is no insecurity in serving others in very personal ways. Our contribution to building the kingdom of God starts here and now - regardless of our situation in life - in serving, teaching, and blessing others.
Elder Robert D. Hales
It is easy as singles who are working hard to find our own place in the world to worry about how to use our agency to make the right personal choices. This is good and it is right, but we must realize that while we may have doubts and insecurities in making many of our life choices, there is no doubt and there is no insecurity in serving others in very personal ways. Our contribution to building the kingdom of God starts here and now - regardless of our situation in life - in serving, teaching, and blessing others.
Quote of the Day
"A thing will not really live unless it first dies. It is simply no good trying to keep any thrill: that is the very worst thing you can do. Let the thrill go--let it die away--go on through that period of death into the quieter interest and happiness that follow--and you will find you are living in a world of new thrills all the time. But if you decide to make thrills your regular diet and try to prolong them artificially, they will all get weaker and weaker, and fewer and fewer, and you will be a bored, disillusioned old man for the rest of your life."
C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Quote of the Day
"President Joseph Smith was in person tall and well built, strong and active; of a light complexion, light hair, blue eyes, very little beard, and of an expression peculiar to himself, on which the eye naturally rested with interest, and was never weary of beholding. His countenance was ever mild, affable, beaming with intelligence and benevolence; mingled with a look of interest and an unconscious smile, or cheerfulness, and entirely free from all restraint or affectation of gravity; and there was something connected with the serene and steady penetrating glance of his eye, as if he would penetrate the deepest abyss of the human heart, gaze into eternity, penetrate the heavens, and comprehend all worlds."
Parley P. Pratt
I love this description of the Prophet Joseph. Not only does it give me a visual image of him, but it also makes me consider how some of his characteristics marked him worthy to be a prophet - and how others were gifts of that calling.
I testify to you that the Lord restored the fullness of His gospel through Joseph Smith. In learning more about the life of Joseph Smith, and more especially by studying the Doctrine and Covenenants, we can learn how the Lord supported, rebuked, forgave, blessed, and ultimately exalted His servant. I testify to you that by studying the Lord's loving relationship with Joseph Smith we can better understand our own personal relationships with the Savior.
Parley P. Pratt
I love this description of the Prophet Joseph. Not only does it give me a visual image of him, but it also makes me consider how some of his characteristics marked him worthy to be a prophet - and how others were gifts of that calling.
I testify to you that the Lord restored the fullness of His gospel through Joseph Smith. In learning more about the life of Joseph Smith, and more especially by studying the Doctrine and Covenenants, we can learn how the Lord supported, rebuked, forgave, blessed, and ultimately exalted His servant. I testify to you that by studying the Lord's loving relationship with Joseph Smith we can better understand our own personal relationships with the Savior.
Monday, September 25, 2006
Quote of the Day
"It is incumbent upon each of us to do everything we can to increase our spiritual knowledge and understanding by studying the scriptures and the words of the living prophets. "
M. Russell Ballard
We have an obligation to study the scriptures regularly and to make our spiritual knowledge and understanding of the highest priority. When I consider the time I spend reading other (good!) books, looking at very cute clothes online (as evidenced by this blog...) or listening to music, it is humbling to realize that if I am not putting in a solid block of time to study the scriptures, then I am IN EFFECT putting the world first - even if the things of the world I am looking at / reading / researching are indeed lovely and of good report...
Let's renew our commitment and pray for the discipline to prioritize consistent and sincere scripture study.
M. Russell Ballard
We have an obligation to study the scriptures regularly and to make our spiritual knowledge and understanding of the highest priority. When I consider the time I spend reading other (good!) books, looking at very cute clothes online (as evidenced by this blog...) or listening to music, it is humbling to realize that if I am not putting in a solid block of time to study the scriptures, then I am IN EFFECT putting the world first - even if the things of the world I am looking at / reading / researching are indeed lovely and of good report...
Let's renew our commitment and pray for the discipline to prioritize consistent and sincere scripture study.
Thursday, September 21, 2006
The Pathway of Discipleship by Neal A. Maxwell
Even the moments that seem humdrum are full of possibilities. Nothing is really routine. If we really want to do much good, we must also be good.
Conversations and decisions in which we engage, even if they seem small, expose the heart and the mind and their furnishings. Brigham Young once said, "You cannot hide the heart, when the mouth is open" (JD 6:74).
We are not always free to choose just when and how all of life's interactions will occur, we are nevertheless free to choose our responses to these moments.
It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilisations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of
a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit. [C. S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses (New York: Macmillan, 1980), p. 19]
It is vital for you and for me, in the words of Jacob, to see things "as they really are" and things "as they really will be" (Jacob 4:13).
All of this made me think about this scripture:
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part, but then shall I know as also I am known. (1 Corinthians 13:12)
Read the full talk here.
Conversations and decisions in which we engage, even if they seem small, expose the heart and the mind and their furnishings. Brigham Young once said, "You cannot hide the heart, when the mouth is open" (JD 6:74).
We are not always free to choose just when and how all of life's interactions will occur, we are nevertheless free to choose our responses to these moments.
It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilisations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of
a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit. [C. S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses (New York: Macmillan, 1980), p. 19]
It is vital for you and for me, in the words of Jacob, to see things "as they really are" and things "as they really will be" (Jacob 4:13).
All of this made me think about this scripture:
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part, but then shall I know as also I am known. (1 Corinthians 13:12)
Read the full talk here.
Quote of the Day
"Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis."
William Arthur Ward
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Quote of the Day
"Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women."
Katherine Hepburn
Monday, September 18, 2006
Quote of the Day
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilisations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.
C S Lewis
C S Lewis
iTunes Playlist
In the Aeroplane over the Sea (Neutral Milk Hotel)
In the Aeroplane over the Sea (Matt Pond PA)
Pacific Theme (Broken Social Scene)
Two Thousand Years (Billy Joel)
Save Yourself (Sense Field)
Into the Sea (Album Leaf)
Beautiful Love (Afters)
If She Wants Me (Belle & Sebastian)
In the Aeroplane over the Sea (Matt Pond PA)
Pacific Theme (Broken Social Scene)
Two Thousand Years (Billy Joel)
Save Yourself (Sense Field)
Into the Sea (Album Leaf)
Beautiful Love (Afters)
If She Wants Me (Belle & Sebastian)
Sunday, September 17, 2006
Thursday, September 14, 2006
Hoity Toity
Whitney: How do you spell hoitey toitey?
me: hoity toity, I think.
Whitney: I got a call back from a hoity toity law firm ... ahah
me: YEEEEah
me: hoity toity, I think.
Whitney: I got a call back from a hoity toity law firm ... ahah
me: YEEEEah
Compliments of Urban Dictionary
Home Office
I'm trying to decide what to do for a home office. Right now I just sit on my bed with my 6 pillows and my laptop board. I have one section of wall where I could put a desk, but I've been torn between putting a desk there and getting more bookcases ...
But then I saw this idea from Martha Stewart, and I'm considering doing it, even though it's way more crafty than I ever, ever get. If I do it, I think I will use wallpaper in one of these prints to line the bookcases so that while in a more contemporary (crisp and white) style, it will still fit with the style of my house.
But then I saw this idea from Martha Stewart, and I'm considering doing it, even though it's way more crafty than I ever, ever get. If I do it, I think I will use wallpaper in one of these prints to line the bookcases so that while in a more contemporary (crisp and white) style, it will still fit with the style of my house.
You can see below that instead of orange, I would wallpaper the interiors:
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Books Part 2
1. One book that changed your life
Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz
2. One book that you have read more than once
Middlemarch by George Eliot
3. One book you would want on a desert island
4. One book that made you laugh out loud
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
5. One book that made you cry
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
6. One book you wish had been written
anything more from JD Salinger
7. One book you wish had never been written
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
8. One book you are currently reading
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
9. One book you have been meaning to read
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Monday, September 11, 2006
I have returned
Highlights of the trip include:
- riding on (for the first time) and learning to drive a 4 wheeler
- driving an RTV (kobudo)
- crawling into an igloo made of hay
- learning family secrets
- re-injuring my left shoulder (it takes talent, people)
- taking hydrocodone
- driving into the end of the rainbow
- seeing sweet STU!
- riding on (for the first time) and learning to drive a 4 wheeler
- driving an RTV (kobudo)
- crawling into an igloo made of hay
- learning family secrets
- re-injuring my left shoulder (it takes talent, people)
- taking hydrocodone
- driving into the end of the rainbow
- seeing sweet STU!
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