to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive

waaay overdue on making a new post, no? I think so, I think so.

I've discovered that I still know how to make origami frogs!!! oh, what a talent. So last Saturday my mom and I went to this mother/daughter tea thing in Olympia, and got all dressed up, and had high tea and that was pretty cool. But we were kind of waiting for everyone to get signed in and it to start, and I (being the only child that I am!) took our name tag papers (the part you pull the name tag off of) and rediscovered the art of making origami frogs. But mine seemed to only like going straight up or backwards…which was interesting to say the least. Mom's went more straight. So I organized the froggy Olympics and mine won –can you guess? – the high jump! while mom's won the long jump.

I know you just wish you were an only child too! You'd honestly never get bored…

I found this incredible song that I think Sam would like…I don't know, I don't really know his style, but the lyrics are pretty amazing. It's called "Our God Reigns" by Delirious:

Forty million babies, lost to God's great orphanage
It's a modern day genocide, and a modern day disgrace
If this is a human right then why aren’t we free?
The only freedom we have is in a man nailed to a tree.

100 million faces, staring at the sky,
Wondering if this HIV will ever pass us by.
The devil stole the rain and hope trickles down the plug,
But still my Chinese take away could pay for someone’s drugs.

Our God reigns, Our God reigns,
Forever your kingdom reigns.

The west has found a gun and it’s loaded with ‘unsure’
Nip and tuck if you have the bucks in a race to find a cure.
Psalm one hundred and thirty nine is the conscience to our selfish crime,
God didn’t screw up when he made you,
He’s a father who loves to parade you.

Yes he reigns, yes you reign, yes you reign,
For there is only one true God,
But we’ve lost the reins on this world,
Forgive us all, forgive us please,
As we fight for this broken world on our knees.









Golf season is over. Isaiah has amazing poetry – and amazing wisdom! Oh yes, and an old friend and I have gotten together and are kind of, well, rebuilding our relationship. She just got a blog too, and wants to join our community, if you're all cool with it. so speak now or forever hold your peace!

I went to this thing on Friday called Missions Fest Seattle, and I volunteered at the Operation Mobilization booktable for a couple hours, then I took two free workshops: Finding Your Place in God's Strategic Vision for the World, and The Range of Opportunities in Missions. It was really pretty amazing to be with hundreds of people who all share the same passion as you! And this was only the second time they've done it! Then they had this speaker in a plenary session who was also very amazing. It was all pretty inspiring. and I felt so grown up, there without my parents!!! ha-ha JK.

I'm working on some pretty amazing piano music right now – the cannibal song from Pirates 2, Tarantella for my recital next May, and Clair de Lune, plus I'm going to start playing for my youth group worship team this week! I made scones on Saturday that turned out really well.




So this morning my cat decided to go exploring – under my parents' bathtub. Apparently there's this way to get there if you're really small from a cupboard under the sink, and there's a tiny little tunnel that goes under/inside their jet-tub. So Lil thought it would be a good place to explore. I didn't think so. My mom and I are downstairs reading on the couch and we hear this tap-tap-tap-tap-tap! that keeps going off and on, and Comet is jumping around wondering what in the world is going on, and we figure it has to be Lil trapped behind a door somewhere. Mom finally found her behind their cupboard; she had decided she had enough exploring and wanted out. Oh yes, and she was covered in dust. pretty much she looked more gray than chocolate. oh dear…my cat is not very smart…

I got my flu shot today to go to India! It didn't hurt at all, but it did bleed, which surprised both me and the nurse! Then I thought I needed Typhoid, because we couldn't find a record of getting a vaccination anywhere, even though I must have had it last time I went. Then we discovered that I had taken it orally, which lasts for five years, so I don't even need it again! Mom needed three shots though, and they typhoid pills. ugh. :P

I think that's about all the news. Life goes on…sometimes slowly and sometimes too fast, but always moving on. It's a bummer – sometimes there are moments I want to keep, or pass by. guess it all evens out in the end. I'm babbling now.

As Sam would say, look at the clock at 11:11, and also read Leave it to Psmith if you haven't yet! Easy read, amazing book, lots (and lots and lots) of laughs!!