Category: Life

Top Fav Bands, #5: The Avett Brothers (Post 1)

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I decided to do a series of music videos from my top 5 favorite bands. This was pretty challenging as I had to narrow it down to 5, but I felt it was a good exercise for me. So, for the next few weeks, I’ll be posting my favorite songs from my favorite bands. This week it is The Avett Brothers, who made it to 5th place, beating out others such as The Head & The Heart, The Lumineers, Matt Kearney, and Sleeping at Last. Also, I did not take into consideration my favorite instrumental/epic songs, as that’d be just…

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Thus Concludes My Chemistry Adventures

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After several days of my desk and most of my floor being covered with chemistry notes in preparation for the final, I am officially done with my chemistry class! : ) It was really fun and challenging, but I am quite happy to be done. I like a bit of science and math, but not too much, haha. With National Poetry Month starting, it took a lot of discipline to study for this final instead of writing poetry. Now I think I’ll be focusing on econ and history to get ready for Mises U this summer. I’m looking forward to…

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NaPoMo: Reflections on Emily Dickinson

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This post was originally published in October 2013, but I decided to resurrect it for National Poetry Month. I was looking for a favorite poem to post and this one came to mind…so then I figured I might as well include my short essay, haha.  I am taking this MOOC (massive open online course) on Modern and Contemporary Poetry which is just amazing. I’ve always enjoyed classic poetry but never really got into the newer stuff. Until now, that is. The format of this course is great, I love the group discussions and interaction between all the participants. One of…

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Remembering the Eleventh Hour

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Four years ago today, Matt Smith’s first episode as the Doctor, The Eleventh Hour, was broadcasted. In honor of that (and as a fun break from my chemistry final), I thought I’d post some of my favorite scenes from his era.                   And I guess it is appropriate to end with this one, from the 2013 Christmas Special, when Matt Smith regenerated.      

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NaPoMo: Acrostic

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One of my friends is celebrating National Poetry Month by featuring a different poem form each day on her tumblr. She is encouraging others to follow along and write their own poems in each form. I am a bit behind, so this is the poem I wrote for the one she posted yesterday, an acrostic. Slipping into our view at last Promising sultry summer days Renewing hope in sunshine. Inebriated by sunlight, we make New attempts at this thing called life Giving thanks for every moment. ~ S.D.L

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NaPoMo: Street Song

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Welcome to April, National Poetry Month! To celebrate, I’ll be posting poems here through the month, and will attempt to write some of my own! So here is a poem I stumbled across today in a new book of poetry… Street Song Like an eddying willow leaf I stand on the street and turn: people, both ways coming and going around me, swirl: probably I am no stiller– detached; but gold is coming into my veins ~ A.R. Ammons

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Thoughts on Transform Rockford

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After attending the last Transform Rockford community visioning session last night, I wrote a post describing the event. For the sake of brevity (or my feeble attempt at it) I didn’t really give much commentary on the organization itself. I am never short on opinions, so I know my readers would be disappointed if they didn’t get to hear my views on Transform Rockford.  As an introduction, I’ll admit I went to this meeting with much skepticism. I didn’t want to actually make a judgement without attending at least one event, but I was cynical, to say the least. The event turned out to…

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Transform Rockford: Final Visioning Session

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After a couple months of following the Transform Rockford calendar, I was finally able to attend their meeting tonight, at the RVC Woodward Technology Center. I almost didn’t go (there is a chemistry final looming over me this week…) but figured I better go now or I’d never make it. It was a good choice because as it turns out, this was the last community visioning session that they are holding, so I was glad to participate in that. A little background for those who aren’t familiar with Transform Rockford. I was not aware of the organization until February…I think they launched some time…

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What’s in Your Pile?

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  I’ve been thinking about this quote a lot recently. It is such a good reminder about the reality of our lives. Because the truth is, we always have a bad pile and a good pile. Life isn’t perfect, therefore we’ll always have a bad pile. Even when things are going relatively well, we can always think of things that could be better. And that can quickly grow into a pile of bad things. What are we to do? It isn’t like we can actually make our bad pile go away. We can try to whittle it down, but we…

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Light

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Just rediscovered an old favorite band, Sleeping at Last. I had no idea how many songs they have out…I was just familiar with their album from last year. So here’s a new fav song I found : )

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