Monday, December 1, 2008

Continued...

The fireplaces in Saga

And in the reading room

All the cozy places there are to read or study or be on campus

The photo mug Lynn made me for Christmas senior year

All the photos up all over our apartment

Poetry (rhythm makes me happy)

Beautiful writing

Convicting writing

Pieces of writing, in general.

Henri Nouwen

Journals

Journaling

Christine and her humility

Laura and the way she takes care of people

Matt and how he can go from laughing to serious and back again at just the right times

Snail mail

Care packages, making and getting

HNGR as a whole

Getting to go through the application process with some of my sophomore friends. NEVER having to go through it myself again (hahaha!!!)

Knowing that God is taking care of me

Knowing that He is working more than I can see

Not having to be perfect (I feel like that makes it onto every thankfulness list I ever write)

Tamara and that we're having weekly dates now

Trader Joe's

Goat cheese

4 comments:

Ransom said...

yay goat cheese.

matt said...

haha. haha. serious face, nodding...

Todd said...

have you ever had smoked goat cheese? i love it, but it makes your teeth squeak...i'm just sayin'

Todd said...

i think your best shot at finding the smoked goat cheese is in the mountains between Poland and Slovakia. it feels strange to have your teeth squeak, but there is an addicting quality, like roasted chestnuts...sorry that was a rabbit trail

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