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| I had to write. . . I'm having a linguistic crisis:
Maybe you can drive a stick-shift? I grew up on one and have always loved driving the "standard" instead of the automatic. I was thinking about the differences and realized that when automatic shifting was invented, they must have had nothing to call the original shifting, so they called it "standard" since most cars had it. But lo! Now most cars have automatic shifting, so the automatic has become standard.
I'm not sure words mean anything. :)
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| I suppose this could be my last entry if Harding is still blocking xanga.
I was riding my bike today, and as the trip odometer read 1.1 miles, I realized that I was going 11.1 mph and that the digital thermometer read 111 degrees F.
My life is now complete.
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| Do post offices have their own mailbox?
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| The summer draws near a close, and I'm reminded of what i've been learning all summer: the necessity of other people. For a long time, I've prided myself as an introvert -- after all, introverts don't need other people; they are independent, self-sufficient. And yet, I find that I am at my best with other people. Yes, I may be empowered by my time spent alone (the main quality defining introversion), but I am lost without (you) friends and family who keep my mind on track.
I found that when my parnets were gone earlier this summer and I had the house to myself, that I could get derailed in my thinking and become stuck in a morose mindset or a futile one for a week before snapping out of it. I think that is why it is so necessary to be with other people daily -- because they remind us what our focus is and don't let us slip into the tangents of life.
It is the very act of speaking that brings people into a discovery of finding out their beliefs, fleshing them out. Just at Sunday school this morning, I realized that the people who answered questions in class didn't always know exactly what they were going to say, but as they began to speak (just as Frost notes about writing a poem: [It] begins in delight and ends in wisdom), they discovered what they actually believed.
Well, I'm ready to get back to school. Dependence is definitely worth it.
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| I just finished Soul Survivor by Philip Yancey. It's the story of the 13 people who saved his faith. Among them are MLK Jr., GK Chesterton, Ghandi, John Donne, Leo Tolstoy, Foyodor Dostoyevesky, and Annie Dillard (The Writing Life). It was superb and I would recommend it especially for people who like to write, as he integrates the value of and the occupation of writing into the book. He ties all their stories into his story. Yay for well-written books.
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