Sound of Music.

After seeing this, how could anyone resist Europe?

Chybíš mi.

a year ago today, I was on my way...

on a jet plane of wonder that took me to a wonderous place.

-insert nostalgic phrase about time flying by, here-

fig sans newton.

I love simple discoveries- the easy-to-pass over elements of my daily spaces.

This morning I was led to a large fig tree on the edge of the DCF courtyard- by a stranger no less (I use the term stranger to refer to the fact that I met him literally two seconds before he walked me to the tree, and I didn't know his name until the walk back).

I had two friends in Prague who constantly ate figs, and I was always weary to try one for myself. But when the stranger told me that he had just found our very own fig tree growing outside DCF, I was enticed to try one.

Ripe and delicious. I'm sad I stayed away for so long.

oh, and a fun fact taken from the caption of the picture on the left: the fig fruit is actually an inverted flower. weird.

(fig tree photo is not of the actual tree)

space case.

Unsure of what I want to put in this space tonight, but nonetheless something moves me to fill it.

hmm. why do we feel the need to fill space?

Are we uncomfortable with the uncertainty that accompanies empty space?

By filling a space, we often hope to feel less lonely or less isolated, but how ironic that that is almost never the case, as you could be surrounded by loads of stuff and still feel uneasy.

Why is empty space in nature more welcoming than empty space in a person's home?

Why is empty space in nature looked at as beautiful, but empty space in a home suggests things like laziness, an inability to make memories, or poverty?

...the ponderings one has at 2am.

Irish Tales.

"There were so many flagstones on the footpath of that street and so many streets in that city and so many cities in the world. Yet eternity had no end."

-james joyce-

I’m tangled in paths and in cities

Tangled in the love I have for this earth

Tangled in the mess that is my fear

Ashamed of my inability to face your truth

But one thing is for sure

This song is simple

Contrite yet emotion filled

Because no matter my entanglement

You know how to calm and keep me still.

color variation

we painted dcf over the past two days. red is out. "breezy" is in.

and, i think i might need another quilting spool or two? suggestions?

The Good News.

"We are not taken up into conscious agreement with God's purpose, we are taken up into God's purpose without any consciousness at all. We have no conception of what God is aiming at, and as we go on it gets more and more vague. God's aim looks like missing the mark because we are too short-sighted to see what He is aiming at. At the beginning of the Christian life we have our own ideas as to what God's purpose is- 'I am meant to go here or there,' 'God has called me to do this special work;' and we go and do the thing, and still the big compelling of God remains. The work we do is of no account, it is so much sacffolding compared with the big compelling of God...He takes us all the time. There is more than we have got at as yet."

.Oswald Chambers.