snow and God and dancing and life

Time is going by much too fast.

I don't want this to end. this semester.


It's too scary...too sad... to imagine life without these people in it.

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Yesterday, only a few of us didn't go out to dinner. Three of us made leftovers together and drank root beers. It was pouring rain. Everyone was gone. It was me, Mo, and Joey. Mo plugged her ipod into the speakers, and the two of us started dancing around the dining hall. Then Joey opened the windows, and the three of us moved our dance party into the pouring rain. I fell in the mud, and was dripping wet and covered in mud. And we felt free. and we felt alive. and we were happy.
The music:
K'naan - In the beginning
Passion Pit - Sleepyhead
Jonsi - Go do, Animal Arithmetic
Karen O & the Kids - All is Love

Then we walked inside and sat down and finished doing our homework. Then the power went out for the rest of the night because that's what happens when it rains and snows here. Oh yea...there is snow...it dumped on us today. it's magically beautiful...but it's April for goodness sake.

This afternoon we an "epic multi-faceted event" called Battle of the Sexes. I ran and jumped in the river and won the event (yes...snow on the ground, and I jumped in the river)! It was silly, good fun with great people. Then we went to Rite-Aid and got ice cream...perhaps the best ice cream around. Then we sat around with two of our profs and asked questions about faith and philosophy. And they made me believe in God and Jesus more than I have the entire semester. If men as wise as them have their own reasons for being Christians after reading all these people who prove it meaningless...maybe it's possible that it is true.
(Church has been terrible lately as my mind has been bombarded with Nietzsche, Hume, and now Pragmatism...but this little chat helped a lot)

And there is just something in my soul that tells me the connectedness of everything, the flow of life, the tradition and history of Faith, the "circles" you could say that create all that is can't be nothing. There must be a center to it all...and that's one thing I feel like I don't have to try to coerce myself into believing. Yeah, and maybe that's not based on reason....but, I guess I've come to realize that there are things beyond reason, and faith in God may be one of those things.

p.s. Jonsi's album "Go" is so stinking happy. and I like it a whole lot. Right now I am listening to "Boy Lilikoi" and thinking about Plenty-Coups and the Crows.