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Monday, July 28, 2008
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Poetry
untitled 1
written during a church service
Good, Bad
Black, White
Tried to send the Light the best they knew
Shouldn't we ask for more?
Relief, Development
servant, Master
Male, Female
Poor, Rich
Joy, Mourning
Staring Faces
Prim & Proper
eyeing up and down
no visible love
judging appearances
no visible love
deep down curiosity
coveting
Pridefully boasting of the way this place is a loving, witnessing community
Christ brought back the focus on Peace and Love of God and neighbor
You need to do business with God
Pay attention to the signs
untitled 2
Creative Expression
no understanding
She convicts her audience
with nothing less than average
What is common place?
Where is Never land?
As we grow older do we become wiser?
Innocence can never be retrieved
Oh but to find life again
after such darkness and seemingly hopeless despair
That is something to boast in
Find the joy in life
Find who you've given the joy of life to
Lists that never end
Doors, walls, ceilings, locks, windows, curtains, head phones, cell phones, TV sets, flashing lights, and sirens.
Boundaries, gates, fences, compartments
There is a place for every activity
What is privacy?
Is this a human, god-given right?
Do we earn anything we are given?
Together we march, walk, run, fly, sing, chant, eat, consume, sell, buy, work, create, and watch the world
Alone we sleep and dream, cry, make a fool of our self, meditate, apply make-up, indulge our temptations, read the paper, write to ourselves, make decisions, and vote.
A soul finds its worth
The weary earth rejoices
written during a church service
Good, Bad
Black, White
Tried to send the Light the best they knew
Shouldn't we ask for more?
Relief, Development
servant, Master
Male, Female
Poor, Rich
Joy, Mourning
Staring Faces
Prim & Proper
eyeing up and down
no visible love
judging appearances
no visible love
deep down curiosity
coveting
Pridefully boasting of the way this place is a loving, witnessing community
Christ brought back the focus on Peace and Love of God and neighbor
You need to do business with God
Pay attention to the signs
untitled 2
Creative Expression
no understanding
She convicts her audience
with nothing less than average
What is common place?
Where is Never land?
As we grow older do we become wiser?
Innocence can never be retrieved
Oh but to find life again
after such darkness and seemingly hopeless despair
That is something to boast in
Find the joy in life
Find who you've given the joy of life to
Lists that never end
Doors, walls, ceilings, locks, windows, curtains, head phones, cell phones, TV sets, flashing lights, and sirens.
Boundaries, gates, fences, compartments
There is a place for every activity
What is privacy?
Is this a human, god-given right?
Do we earn anything we are given?
Together we march, walk, run, fly, sing, chant, eat, consume, sell, buy, work, create, and watch the world
Alone we sleep and dream, cry, make a fool of our self, meditate, apply make-up, indulge our temptations, read the paper, write to ourselves, make decisions, and vote.
A soul finds its worth
The weary earth rejoices
Monday, July 21, 2008
Health and Balance
At this moment, I am in my room on my bed, listening to the storm outside and the very loud rain falling on our roof. I have wanted to post for a while now and finally am glad for this moment of opportunity.
There has been a mixture of things on my mind. I feel like we live surrounded by opposites and extremes and so it makes sense for me to be thinking about so much and then other times hardly anything at all but the task at hand. There is this theme I find running through my life's monologue I keep. This theme I really have never been able to explain very well or articulate to other people for I suppose many reasons but I just want to attempt it here, now and hope for reactions.
So many times i find that in life balance is the answer to everything. Again it's this pull of both extremes and I'm not just talking about good vs. evil. You know when you always get that bit of two sense from a friend or family member that goes something to the effect of, "well you kind of just have to find that happy medium"? Well I'd pay more attention to that than you'd think.
And also I'm not talking about living a typical, boring, uneventful, impassioned or devoid of fervor and zeal of a life to stay balanced--quite the opposite, I believe every single person will have a different time of measuring and finding their balance and it will be completely YOU and no one else. I do wonder also when I begin writing this thought process out if I don't sound completely a result of my new-agey, relativistic generation? I would like to think NOT but then i turn around at the moment I say that and ask myself in response, "Self, or Kori, what is wrong with being a direct result of your generation's values and beliefs?" And I can't answer for much other than, maybe, that small inner circle of conservative and narrow-minded Christian community I was willingly raised under would say in disguised judgement that I am too liberal minded and wishy washy and don't have a convincing enough foundation for these beliefs.
Oh but I know now I have come such a way from that, from them, from what I grew up accepting with full faith and no disregard. However, not to my regret, but simply for later on realizing the multitude of OTHER beliefs that exist in our world today as well as in history, even within a single culture, religion, era, species, geographical location, etc. This is what has completely changed me or maybe I should say opened or freed me. I also want to express here that this is me and how I have been all along but much of me was forced to be left out and put on the shelf; put on hold at the time i took my Christian faith into personal ownership. After studying at college and especially my education in the field of Anthropology this other side of me that was shut out for years has finally been freed and let loose to explore all her questions, interests, desires, curiosities, fears, and hopes! And god does it feel amazing.
And So I realize now that I feel a writers block coming and nothing coherent enough to continue with, that i never really got to the actual subject of this post, i.e. BALANCE = living a healthy life. But that is ok for now. I'll be back with much more and look forward to it!
peace out:)
There has been a mixture of things on my mind. I feel like we live surrounded by opposites and extremes and so it makes sense for me to be thinking about so much and then other times hardly anything at all but the task at hand. There is this theme I find running through my life's monologue I keep. This theme I really have never been able to explain very well or articulate to other people for I suppose many reasons but I just want to attempt it here, now and hope for reactions.
So many times i find that in life balance is the answer to everything. Again it's this pull of both extremes and I'm not just talking about good vs. evil. You know when you always get that bit of two sense from a friend or family member that goes something to the effect of, "well you kind of just have to find that happy medium"? Well I'd pay more attention to that than you'd think.
And also I'm not talking about living a typical, boring, uneventful, impassioned or devoid of fervor and zeal of a life to stay balanced--quite the opposite, I believe every single person will have a different time of measuring and finding their balance and it will be completely YOU and no one else. I do wonder also when I begin writing this thought process out if I don't sound completely a result of my new-agey, relativistic generation? I would like to think NOT but then i turn around at the moment I say that and ask myself in response, "Self, or Kori, what is wrong with being a direct result of your generation's values and beliefs?" And I can't answer for much other than, maybe, that small inner circle of conservative and narrow-minded Christian community I was willingly raised under would say in disguised judgement that I am too liberal minded and wishy washy and don't have a convincing enough foundation for these beliefs.
Oh but I know now I have come such a way from that, from them, from what I grew up accepting with full faith and no disregard. However, not to my regret, but simply for later on realizing the multitude of OTHER beliefs that exist in our world today as well as in history, even within a single culture, religion, era, species, geographical location, etc. This is what has completely changed me or maybe I should say opened or freed me. I also want to express here that this is me and how I have been all along but much of me was forced to be left out and put on the shelf; put on hold at the time i took my Christian faith into personal ownership. After studying at college and especially my education in the field of Anthropology this other side of me that was shut out for years has finally been freed and let loose to explore all her questions, interests, desires, curiosities, fears, and hopes! And god does it feel amazing.
And So I realize now that I feel a writers block coming and nothing coherent enough to continue with, that i never really got to the actual subject of this post, i.e. BALANCE = living a healthy life. But that is ok for now. I'll be back with much more and look forward to it!
peace out:)
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Adrian Wilson
My friend from College is dead. is no longer alive on this earth he gave to and loved so much. My friend has left prematurely and all of us scratch our heads, bang our fists, cry our eyes out to figure why! Today at work when i drove home I thought of a song by Howie Day that I wanted to listen to; knowing it would have completely NEW meaning to it, considering Adrian. This is the chorus:
I have mixed feelings about these lyrics but it draws an interesting twist on how we view end of life, death, and remembering. Normally the last day of our life we don't view as "perfect" in any way shape or form, especially when it is not planned or expected! Why did the artist choose that word to describe the final day, the final breaths, gasping in agony and frustration (Adrian drowned off the coast of Spain while on a farming/service trip.) I have constant flash back memories coming into my brain to remember my dear friend-what else can one do? Maybe it is described as perfect because the artist believes, simultaneously life begins again in a new way. All i know is that life is precious and I miss and mourn a dear friend.
"It's the perfect time of day.
It's the last day of your life.
Don't let it slip away, while your heart is still racing.
It's the perfect time of day.
And you won't feel a thing.
And you won't recall, anything at all"
It's the last day of your life.
Don't let it slip away, while your heart is still racing.
It's the perfect time of day.
And you won't feel a thing.
And you won't recall, anything at all"
I have mixed feelings about these lyrics but it draws an interesting twist on how we view end of life, death, and remembering. Normally the last day of our life we don't view as "perfect" in any way shape or form, especially when it is not planned or expected! Why did the artist choose that word to describe the final day, the final breaths, gasping in agony and frustration (Adrian drowned off the coast of Spain while on a farming/service trip.) I have constant flash back memories coming into my brain to remember my dear friend-what else can one do? Maybe it is described as perfect because the artist believes, simultaneously life begins again in a new way. All i know is that life is precious and I miss and mourn a dear friend.
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