Day 365: January 29th

Today, I experienced some irony.
Today, I appreciate my family even more.
Today, this project officially becomes a memory book.

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Today, I share a few things about myself:

- I hate carrying around cash.
- I have grown out my hair for seven months before.
- I suck at this thing called “friendship”.
- I hate shopping for clothes.
- I have a love-hate relationship with my Amazon Prime membership.
- I have big bones.
- I do not like battery-powered anything.
- I learned that it was possible to use the toilet seat covers as facial oil wipes when watching an episode of Oprah five or six years ago. (It’s pretty effective.)
- I think I am getting my braces off within the next two to three months. I’m not sure how to feel about this.
- I am not a fan of loud music.
- I get self-conscious when I have to be the DJ on a car ride.
- I take so many things for granted.
- I have a dad who is an introspective softy. Perhaps where I got it from. I’m sorry for getting so riled up about a haircut.
- I have a mom who’s simple and steady.
- I have an older brother who loves by knowing. It’s something I want to eventually understand.
- I have a younger sister who shares similar facial and personality features with me. But she has more confidence.
- I have an even younger sister who is quite mature and doesn’t really know what procrastination means.
- I am learning that growing older is a beautiful and challenging thing.

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16 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.
17 For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,
18 as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

Today, 2 Corinthians 4 is on my heart for so many reasons.

I shall yet praise Him.

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Song of the Day
Track: Elliot Travels
Artist: The Uglysuit
Album: The Uglysuit

Day 364: January 28th

Oh laughing man, what have you won?
Don’t tell me what cannot be done
My little mouth, my winter lungs
Don’t tell me what cannot be done
Cannot be done

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I thought about Rwanda a lot this week. The city, the motos, the kids, the base, the rain, the green, the dancing, the coconut crackers. I promise I’ll be back.

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Song of the Day
Track: The Lakes of Canada
Artist: Sufjan Stevens
Album: http://vimeo.com/7878291

Day 363: January 27th

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Song of the Day 
Track: Apartment 
Artist: Young the Giant 
Album: http://vimeo.com/14244513

via (mysideofthesky)

Day 362: January 26th

http://know-gods-will.tumblr.com/post/2953617129/a-time-to-tear-and-a-time-to-mend.

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Only You know the end from the beginning.

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Song of the Day
Track: Too Young
Artist: Nat King Cole
Album: Love Songs

Day 361: January 25th

7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted, 
Yet He opened not His mouth; 
He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, 
And as a sheep before its shearers is silent, 
So He opened not His mouth.

8 He was taken from prison and from judgment, 
And who will declare His generation? 
For He was cut off from the land of the living; 
For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.

9 And they made His grave with the wicked— 
But with the rich at His death, 
Because He had done no violence, 
Nor was any deceit in His mouth.

10 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him;

(Isaiah 53:7-10)

Just because.

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Song of the Day
Track: Pink Elephant
Artist: Neah Lee
Album: The EP

Day 360: January 24th

Sufjan has a song for every occasion. How.

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I am currently reading The Chronicles of Narnia, and many times throughout the day I wish I was having a conversation with a horse or playing tag with a Lion or eating food that sounds like it tastes better than anything pickable or cookable on earth. There are also (what seems like) at least a hundred lampposts stationed all across UCLA’s campus. It really doesn’t make it any easier.

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Song of the Day
Track: Last Place
Artist: Broken Social Scene
Album: Feel Good Lost

Day 359: January 23rd

A few things I shall (maybe) never understand: 1) the appeal of “reality” television shows, 2) the fact that sea urchin kind of tastes like avocado to me, and 3) the way I can so easily forget truth.

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Song of the Day
Track: Growing Pains
Artist: Neah Lee
Album: The EP

Day 358: January 22nd

“Rocks don’t grow.”

-Danielle, my fourteen-year-old sister

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Song of the Day
Track: White As Snow
Artist: Jon Foreman
Album: Winter EP

Day 357: January 21st

Oh Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!

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It is in that low, low place where my desires can once again become Your desires; where my heart develops a sensitivity I could never muster up on my own. I want so badly to understand, to experience, to share what it means to be poor in spirit.

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Song of the Day
Track: Silence
Artist: Jars of Clay
Album: The Eleventh Hour

Day 356: January 20th

That was how Diggory felt.

They well.

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Song of the Day
Track: Over the Rainbow
Artist: Eva Cassidy
Album: Songbird

Day 355: January 19th

Old moon.

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Song of the Day
Track: Till the Sun Turns Black
Artist: Ray LaMontagne
Album: Till the Sun Turns Black

Day 354: January 18th

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Song of the Day
Track: Homesick
Artist: Kings of Convenience
Album: Riot On an Empty Street

Day 353: January 17th

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Song of the Day
Track: Cayman Islands
Artist: Kings of Convenience
Album: Riot On an Empty Street

Day 352: January 16th

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Song of the Day
Track: Gold In the Air of Summer
Artist: Kings of Convenience
Album: Riot On an Empty Street

Day 351: January 15th

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Song of the Day
Track: Pajaros
Artist: Gustavo Santaolalla
Album: My Blueberry Nights Soundtrack