I'm excited! (maybe not as excited as Bono here) But I wore a scarf for the first time this season last night while me, Mum, and Dr.Love went to Limpsomb to search for Audio Adrenaline tickets. What an adventure that was! I'm really thannkful for the Love Doctor, who is one of my dearest friends. We even slid down the 'Heartland' hill in Memphis together, now that was exciting. Anyway, I don't really know where I was going with all that, I just really wanted to put that picture up!

On drinking that fantastic beverage known as tea!

"There is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea."- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Well said!

It's my 100th post!

Where the gentle Avon flows and a trailing rambler grows
There's a window shining into the night,
And a casement curtain flutters and blows in candlelight.

And a girl sits listening there, to a haunting old world air
As if someone played so softly below
All entranced she hears that sweet serenade of long ago.

All the while her wonder grows as that music comes and goes,
Ah, what magic makes this rare delight?
Her calling awakes the midsummer night.

Who can it be playing out there,
Playing for me, such a sweet air?
Clavichord bells twinkling in time, why do you chime?
Why do you ring, ding, ding?
Tell me minstrel, tell me the tale of love you sing?

Phantom answer come there none, but she waited on and on
Till her window grew bright with dawn's early glow
And that bygone lover haunting the night was silent below.
He no longer played that sweet serenade of long ago.

* This is an Elizabethan song (serenade!) we're singing for choir by Christopher Hassall. It's so wonderful, I love it!

I think it's here!

Well, today is a lovely cool and overcast day. AND I saw three yellow leaves fall to the ground! That justifies it enough for me, Autumn is here (I hope)! So I wore my new boots and a black velvet coat with my dress that is the color of the water at Mt Tabor park. In fact, I'm wearing the same thing I had on the first time I ever went there. Mt Tabor is a lovely place and I think that everyone should go there, especially in the fall, since I've never been there during the fall. I bet it's spectacular! That's all for now, I'm going to choir now! We'll be obsessively singing Ave Verum, good thing it's a beautiful piece of music!

Well...

This morning I got up and my Mom and I made breakfast for my brothers and their halo friends (Def:Halo Friend: A boy that comes over and only leaves the room where the Halo/XBOX is to eat.) Anyways, they all seem to be having fun, and I'm not doing anything!!! It's nice to just sit down and sit there, listening to music or daydreaming. Ahh, just thought I'd share my small bit of bliss with you guys, for it is indeed blissful. Shouldn't it be called NO-Labor Day, or Anti-Labor Day? i'm a bit confused on that point.

This past week was my first week of school, I felt pretty alone. All my friends have moved into a different apartment and it's so quite in my hall. Plus I miss everyone I was with 24/7 all summer! Of course, I can paint and study more effeciently now, I guess.
The theatre dept. is doing A Midsummer Night's Dream for the Fall play! Now that is exciting! Oh, and I might be leading a girls Bible study at school, so you guys please PLEASE don't forget to pray for me! I need it!

Listen to me, how silly! What I should really be excited about is that I have witnessed 19 Tennesse Autumns and the 20th is close at hand! Woot! Autumn is definitely my favorite season, it is so perfectly orange and golden! Yeah! It makes the trees turn into giant flowers, with their petals floating about everywhere, it's glorious just to think of it! My campus is so beautiful in the fall. Yesterday there was such a cool breath about the earth that I thought autumn had found us early, which would have just fine with me! I promptly ran to my father and asked him if we could put the Christmas tree up. His reply was, "Oh, you're right. It is September now! " Then he laughed and went on about whatever it was he was doing. I felt quite scorned and neglected until he redeemed himself by finding me a nest of baby mice! They where so lovely and little and pink and naked, I thought they might catch cold in the pre-Autumn wind. It was all I could do to keep myself from touching their new little fuzzy selves! So in reality, I had a day that was very much an Autumn day, it was just a bit premature. I'm anticipating a marvelous Fall this year, but we'll see! You should all come.