Head full of Doubt / Road Full of Promise

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[observando]

[loproulxx]

FIN

This is my last post ever for class! Looking back at what I wrote, my posts appear to be like pages in a journal. I often wrote about things that happened over my weekends and sometimes about things (movies, books and music) that inspired me throughout this semester. I don't know if my writing has improved at all, but I think my editing has, which might make it seem like my writing has gotten better. Reading my posts and organizing my thoughts the way I wanted them to be read was a lesson in editing a final draft. I am glad to be done with this type of blogging though, sharing my throughs through pictures, quotes and music is more my style. I just can't believe it is the end of the semester. I am so excited for Christmas break and my last spring semester as an undergrad. I can't wait to see what the future has in store. 

[kellycampbellberry]

Chronicles of Narnia - The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe, by CS Lewis - Book Sculpture - 14x16x2.5” - SOLD

Oh this one was hard. The illustrations are so small. But it gave me a chance to sharpen my blade skills.

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[pickeringtonlibrary]

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

- C.S. Lewis, who joins the Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey.  (via pickeringtonlibrary)

[loproulxx]

XLII.

This past Friday marked the 50th anniversary of C.S. Lewis' death. He is one of my favorite authors of all time. I grew up listening to my mom read through the chronicles of Narnia. I still love those books (As a side note, the movies are not a good representation of these books, always read the books!). Now that I'm older, I also love his other writings, the theological ones and apologetics ones such as "The Four Loves", "Mere Christianity", "Till We Have Faces" and many more. One of my favorite reads from two summers ago was a collection of letters written from Lewis in response to letters from children who were fans of his writing. It is called "C.S. Lewis, Letters to Children". He really was an amazing man. He was so creative and imaginative, he so easily can relate to children and never makes them feel inferior or talks above them and at the same time his writing is deep and thought-provoking, discussing some of the more challenging questions this world offers with level and logical words. He was truly a remarkable author. On my ride home from school I listened to one of my favorite books in the Chronicles series in remembrance of him and because it is a great way to spend a few hours in the car. 

"Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind." -C. S. Lewis 

[johnsonwl1]

Every year, the softball team divides into four teams the month before Thanksgiving to compete to see who will have to cook the Thanksgiving meal for the team. This year, my team lost, so we had to cook the whole meal. Six of us had to cook dinner for thirty in our small apartment kitchen. This...

[loproulxx]

That sounds like a lot of fun! A group of my friends at school are going to have a after Thanksgiving thanksgiving dinner together the first weekend of December and I am so hyped. We each have to make a dish to bring. I'm really looking forward to it. 

[firstwordsofbooks]

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[loproulxx]

XLI.

Saturday I rode over to Raleigh to spend time with my sister. We went shopping for Christmas presents. We went out with friends for dinner at a favorite Mexican restaurant and then we all went back to her house to watch a movie. We watched a film called Kon Tiki, which if you haven't seen it, you should! It is quite amazing. It was based on a true story about legendary adventurer Thor Heyerdal's epic 4,300-mile crossing of the Pacific on a balsawood raft in 1947, in an effort prove that it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times. He wrote a book about it and I'm going to read it now! We all really enjoyed it. It made me want to be on some foreign island with beautiful clear blue water. Today I went to her church in downtown Raleigh and we made lunch afterwards with friends at their house and watched cartoons while the boys worked on some Engineering homework. After a bit, we left so I could take pictures of her in her graduation cap and gown for her grad announcements (She graduates in December!). It was a really good weekend and I can't wait till she gets done with classes on Tuesday and can come home and join me on break. 

[loproulxx]

XL.

Long story short I got to go home early for Thanksgiving break due to the fact that I had to have an overdue orthodontist appointment and the only day the office is open this week is Monday. I'm not complaining at all. It's nice to have such a long break, I really needed to get out of Boone and be away from school. I left Friday after class. When I got home my mom and I went to the festival of trees at the Pinehurst Hotel. The hotel is really old and very beautiful. I loved seeing it all decorated for Christmas. The trees are donated by various companies, local businesses and schools. They are decorated to go along with themes and covered in not just ornaments but toys and presents of all kinds. One tree was made of all kinds of wine bottles. The trees are all available to bid on, so the winner gets everything on the tree and whatever was part of the display. All the money goes to a local non-profit called the Sandhills Children's Center is a private, non-profit organization that offers an inclusive child developmental day program for children with and without special development needs. It's a great cause and a wonderful way to begin celebrating the holiday season. 

[loproulxx]

XXXIX.

Sunday afternoon I was asked to help a friend out with a photo shoot she had to do for her photography class. We dressed up and drove out to Moses Cone on the parkway. The shoot was based on a TV show that my friend watches and is about witches, so naturally we were wearing all black. It was the perfect weather for a creepy shoot. The fog was super thick and it was raining as well. It was super eerie with the fog drifting through the trees and the chilly wet wind blowing. While it was miserable to be cold and wet for almost two hours, the results were worth it. It was fun posing, coming up with ideas for shots and laughing about channeling our inner America's Next Top Model. People who were visiting the house kept stopping to watch. It was a lot of fun helping out my friend and made the rainy, dreary day a lot more interesting. I can't wait to see the final pictures!

[loproulxx]

XXXVIII.

Friday night I was able to participate in the Dodge for Hope dodgeball tournament benefiting the Hope pregnancy center at Alliance Church. There were 30 plus teams, each one named something creative and a lot of teams dressed up to match their names. My team's name was "we just want a t shirt". It was a ton of fun and really intense! It was set up on one court and the stakes were high (everyone was watching). The games only lasted 5 minutes each bracket. My team made it to the sweet sixteen! I was pretty pleased, especially since a lot of the teams were guys who could really throw and were getting into it. The team that won overall was "Dodge Mahal" hahaha I really liked their team name. It was a really great time and the event raised 3,500 dollars for Hope Pregnancy Center!! I was pretty stoked. Nothing like playing sports for a good cause! 

[loproulxx]

Killing it with my team at the Doge for Hope tournament. 

[jennituck]

I am so completely tired of feeling like complete crap. I am finally getting over double ear infections. Seriously, if you can ever avoid getting cellulitus in your ear canal combined with a middle ear infection, do so. I felt like some one jammed a soft ball full glass into my ear. Not fun. If...

[loproulxx]

This is terrifying. I have never in my life had an ear infection but I know they aren't fun. I'm sorry you are not feeling well. I never really thought about ear buds being carriers of so much bacteria but it makes so much sense. Now I really don't want to put my ear buds back in my ears.... 

[loproulxx]

XXXVII.

Saturday I helped out with RUF's Operation Christmas Child packing party. It was a huge hit. We all gathered at a church and got into groups, picking what age group we wanted and drove over to Walmart and the dollar tree to get gifts and things to fill the shoeboxes with. Thankfully, we were able to get the shoeboxes from the football team which was really great. Once we bought everything we wanted we gathered again at the church and wrapped the boxes in cute holiday paper and stuffed them to the brim with candy, toys, coloring books, school supplies and hygiene items. We listened to Christmas music as we packed and after everyone's box was filled and stacked we ate pizza and watched Elf. It was a really good time and we filled almost all 30 boxes. OCC is close to my heart as a ministry because of a box I packed when I was 14 that ended up in Zambia, Africa. How do I know it was there specifically? I received a letter from Africa a year after I mailed the box, a little girl around my age had received my box and gotten my letter I had stuck inside, asking that if the receiver knew English to write me back with my address. Her name is Felicity. We were penpals for several years until we lost contact (her family moved a lot as her father was always having to look for work). I know I may never know what happened to her or her family, but my little shoebox made its way to her for a reason. Every shoebox has that kind of power. It's a pretty cool thing.

[nprmusic]

Joel and Ethan Coen’s new film looks at the early-’60s Greenwich Village folk scene, as populated by a brooding moocher played by singer-actor Oscar Isaac. Its soundtrack, like the movie itself, reflects the way many different strains of folk music collided in the early ’60s.

Stream the Inside Llewyn Davis soundtrack from NPR’s First Listen. 

[loproulxx]

XXXVI.

So this afternoon I have to watch a film for my film class. We have been watching a series of movies made by the Coen brothers. The reason for watching a bunch of movies all done by the same director is because we are talking about the auteur theory which says that a film is a result of the director's personal creative vision. The Coen brothers were the guys behind O Brother where art thou?, Fargo, True Grit, the Big Lebowski, Raising Arizona and many more. The one I have to see today is No Country  for Old Men. I will say, O Brother Where Art Thou is one of my favorite movies, I think it is hilarious. For class we have watched Fargo and Raising Arizona. I was super excited to find out about a new movie coming out soon that the Coen brothers are behind called "Inside Llewyn Davis" and it looks like it is gong to be so good. Being in this film class has showed me how the study of films is a lot like studying Art History, which I love, so naturally learning more about the art of film has been pretty cool.