"No man has learned to live until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. Length without breadth is like a self contained tributary having no outward flow to the ocean. Stagnant, still, and stale it lacks both life and freshness. In order to live creatively and meaningfully, our self-concern must be wedded to other concerns."
-Martin Luther King
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Intro
I suppose as this is my first post on this shiny, black blog I should provide some sort of introduction, for myself & for the purpose of this chunk in the wide world of blogging:
So hello. I'm Bel. I'm a 17 year old girl from Idaho who does, in fact, live in the middle of nowhere, thank-you-very-much. I have an acute liking for commas, and just punctuation in general, so please don't be counting. I also have a love of people (yes, just people in general; so that does include you, blog reader), though I have several special people in my life who keep the ticker running. But even more than all of that, I'm a Christian. I've been one my entire life, & can't remember a day I didn't know Christ's amazing work in my life. I've been blessed with the cutest, sweetest little siblings you'll ever meet, and parents who have never failed to always display Christ's love to us. I also steal pens, & consider Stevie Ray Vaughn one of my music heroes.
And that would pretty much sum up my personal part in this introduction.
For my purpose in blogging:
It's a good question. I don't actually know what brought me to start this. Several people had asked me about starting one, but I hadn't really seriously considered it. It became one of those molecules endlessly floating around in my brain, not really having any attention paid to it. It wasn't till I received a random e-mail from the lovely creators of Google, asking me if I wanted to sign up for this. "Well," I thought, "let's take this as a sign." So here I am.
I really don't know what I'll be posting here. Probably just those thoughts that hit at awkward moments when you're without a pen or paper; the ones you remember late at night when you have no intention of writing it down in any sort of notebook without burning it the next morning. It will be random, it will most definitely be spontaneous, but, in spite of myself, I hope it gives someone some pleasure to read.
And I believe that sums up my first post; hooray!
P.S. I apologize for the number of "I"s contained in this post; it won't happen again.
So hello. I'm Bel. I'm a 17 year old girl from Idaho who does, in fact, live in the middle of nowhere, thank-you-very-much. I have an acute liking for commas, and just punctuation in general, so please don't be counting. I also have a love of people (yes, just people in general; so that does include you, blog reader), though I have several special people in my life who keep the ticker running. But even more than all of that, I'm a Christian. I've been one my entire life, & can't remember a day I didn't know Christ's amazing work in my life. I've been blessed with the cutest, sweetest little siblings you'll ever meet, and parents who have never failed to always display Christ's love to us. I also steal pens, & consider Stevie Ray Vaughn one of my music heroes.
And that would pretty much sum up my personal part in this introduction.
For my purpose in blogging:
It's a good question. I don't actually know what brought me to start this. Several people had asked me about starting one, but I hadn't really seriously considered it. It became one of those molecules endlessly floating around in my brain, not really having any attention paid to it. It wasn't till I received a random e-mail from the lovely creators of Google, asking me if I wanted to sign up for this. "Well," I thought, "let's take this as a sign." So here I am.
I really don't know what I'll be posting here. Probably just those thoughts that hit at awkward moments when you're without a pen or paper; the ones you remember late at night when you have no intention of writing it down in any sort of notebook without burning it the next morning. It will be random, it will most definitely be spontaneous, but, in spite of myself, I hope it gives someone some pleasure to read.
And I believe that sums up my first post; hooray!
P.S. I apologize for the number of "I"s contained in this post; it won't happen again.
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