CURRENTLY: august 2025
READING: Genesis + Letters to a Young Poet by Ranier Maria Rilke + Wings of Starlight by Allison Saft + The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
WATCHING: Chuck with my sister + Sweet Home Alabama
WRITING: this blog!
LISTENING: "Stars" by The Weepies + this August playlist on Spotify
CRAFTING: daisy granny squares to attempt to make a cardigan or tote bag (tbd)
QUOTING: "A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity." - Ranier Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
MEMORIZING: Psalm 16
MISSING: past Augusts
TRYING: to write this blog! I've been pondering the idea of a blog for years, but I was always too scared of others reading it to ever start it. But recently I've had so many words that are trying to break loose and want to be read by others. In all honesty, I didn't even mean to start this blog, but in clicking through a few buttons to see how many steps it would take, it took very few steps and voila a blog was created. Now that I'm here, I'm excited to see what happens next.
LEARNING: to offer imperfect words to the world
RESEARCHING: the possibility of studying abroad
ANTICIPATING: heading back to college to begin my junior year as a psychology major. More specifically: looking forward to hosting freshman girls with my best friends and returning to my church home after a semester and a summer away!
DRINKING: iced lattes w. coconut milk!
EATING: nova lox any time I can
LOVING: reading a chapter of a nonfiction book alongside my quiet time each day
DISLIKING: the idea of packing for school in the next few days
STARTING: you guessed it: this blog!
PONDERING: this quote from Letters to a Young Poet:
"Why do you not think that he who draws near from all eternity is still to come, that he is in the future, the final fruit of a tree whose leaves we are? What prevents you from throwing forward his truth into times yet to be, and living your life as a painful and beautiful day in the history of a great gestation? Do you not see, then, how everything that happens is for ever a beginning, and might it not be His beginning, since beginning is in itself always so beautiful? If he is the most perfect, must not the inferior precede him, that he may choose himself out of abundance and profusion?—Must he not be the last, in order to embrace everything within himself, and what sense should we have if he for whom we crave had already been?
As bees collect honey, so we take what is sweetest out of everything and build Him."
HOPING: these rainy summer days linger for the rest of this week
FEELING: a bit of sehnsucht
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