some lovely music. (well, photos of the lovely people who make the lovely music)

I like these people quite a bit. This is Abigail Washburn & The Sparrow Quartet. Ben Sollee is part of the quartet. You should listen to both Abigail Washburn and Ben Sollee.

o here's Ben Sollee (he rides a bike. he has inspired me to ride my bike across the country sometime or another.)

Free Will

Meet Rob Brezny.

His website alone can give you a lift just be smelling it. I salute this man today for his dedication to inspiration. This is him in action.

I feel like I am taking a creativity nap. It better not be one of those naps where I wake up afterwards and I don't know whether it is night or day.

P.S.

Travel alone to another country?

yes or no?

lonely or adventurous?

horrible or wonderful?

(do you need more antonyms?)

How does CS Lewis know more about me than I do?

When it comes to affection, Lewis is spot on when he classifies some people as a type that "seal up the very fountain for which they are thirsty"

And on friendship: "This love, free from instinct, free from all duties but those, which love has freely assumed, almost wholly free from jealousy, and free without qualification from the need to be needed, is eminently spiritual".

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I love book fairs. I went to a fantastic one in Chicago today, and got a tremendous stack of libros for under 30 bucks! wooot.

My summer reading pile is beginning to look too large for 3 months....

This post is unnecessary. and I am pretty sure I just spelled unnecessary incorrectly. I will do spell check....CORRECT! I am a master speller. I should be on that one spelling bee with those ridiculous words where everyone is like "Origin?" because they think that will help them spell it more correct. This is becoming unreadable.

I apologize for this disjointed conglomeration of letters. Why am I writing as if I were in a use-the-sweetest-words-you-can-contest.

O! they have dinosaurs at the zoo. WHAT? yesssir, real-moving-noisemaking-LIFEsize dinos.

this is getting out of hand. I am going to stop myself right n-