Archive > September 2007

pretty sweet.

a friend let me in on a secret and now i want to share it with you.
google images for “madrid new york” and see what the first one is.
it’s sick.

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dis ‘n dat

everyone said i was the perfect one. i guess perfect because i can admit that i’m learning one mistake at a time.
and i made a mistake. a big mistake.
so i’m in charge of our church bulletin. yeah, you know the rather unimportant piece of paper that no one really pays any attention [...]

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learning

it’s taken a while for the things that i know in my head to work their way down to my heart. is it prideful to say that i think i’m starting to finally learn?
i wrote a friend tonight. i wrote:
It always amazes me to feel the peace that comes after you surrender things [...]

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pictures

hi friend.
you’re like an old friend, aren’t you? i’m assuming if you’re here then you consider yourself my friend or even if you technically don’t know me all that well, after reading a few of my entries, you’re as good as a friend — you “hear” more from me here than most do face-to-face [...]

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we.

it was a warm fall evening.  we wore dresses and heels (well, the girls did).  and walked around Old Montreal.  and ate dinner in an old building.  and laughed.  a lot.
it was a warm fall day.  we walked down the road.  and into a cornfield.  and took pictures.  and i loved being with them.
ah.  it’s [...]

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the days keep going

they are in maine. so close yet so far away. i think i’ll be able to stand the few sleeps that must happen before they come here. he does look like the sweetest boy, doesn’t he? the good news is, this mature aunt of his finally found her credit card she [...]

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these are the days

you know those people who only do what they gotta do and then they split because they don’t care about the rest? yeah, i did that. i waited long enough until i had to get up and speak and then i left. yes, that’s me — loser louissa.
i stopped work half an [...]

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aubrey paladin

i have a new favorite niece.  a new wonderful, beautiful, darling niece.
go here for pictures, details, and specific ways that you can pray for her.

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. . .

tonight was a “i’m home” kind of night. the kind where i walked home from church, waved at little people and a daddy in the yard of a yellow house, came home and helped with cutting tomatoes and getting dinner started. the kind where everyone ended up sitting at the kitchen table and [...]

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my busy schedule ever since arriving home tuesday morning at 2:00 am has finally caught up to me. this morning i slept through my alarm (how like me) and was woken by a sister yelling up to my room letting me know that i had half an hour before church started. i promptly [...]

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