Kessia

“And I have loved thee, Ocean!”
 
                        -George Gordon, Lord Byron
 
Amid all the waiting I get to do, I also get some pretty fun field trips.  See, Darren encouraged me to get out and do something fun too before my mission – do something to remember.  He suggested a theme park.  I guess he thought I’d [...]

 ”Time is a wind that keeps blowing in my face and mumbling words that don’t make sense.”
                                                                               -Shannon Hale, Book of a Thousand Days
It’s been a while since I’ve last written.  Since then, I’ve taken my finals, deferred from school, sold my contract, and gone home - and, of course, recieved my mission call.  I’ve been assignmed [...]

“I hate waiting.”

- Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride
You know, I always considered myself fairly patient. After all, long car drives don’t phase me much even though I can’t sleep or read in the car. I don’t get antsy about Christmas beyond what I consider normal. And I’m not even itching to graduate. [...]

“Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and he shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh” (Genesis 2:24).
A professor from Harvard (I think) gave a very good lecture on the issue of marriage at one of the University forums. What it comes down to, he said, is [...]

“There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless”
-Mark Twain
About the thing below - at first I thought there’d be no harm in teasing our dear friend the guide who helped us all back down the mountain.  After all, you never know his name - [...]

“Come my friends, / Tis not too late to seek a newer world. / Push off, and sitting well in order smite / The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds / To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths / Of all the western stars, until I die.”
-Alfred, Lord Tennyson  “Ulysses” ll. 56-61
“So what do [...]