Remerciements et Splendeur

I'm Kimmi and this website functions as my diary. I like to spend time watching CBS Sunday Morning and embracing shoulder shrugging as a dance form.

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Yes.

As far as I can tell, the McConaissance is thriving and l-i-v-i-n-g. These performances are gorgeously complicated, riveting, nuanced. What a wonderful time to be alive.

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Current Mood

Listening to Kendrick’s poetic justice while re-reading Wordsworth’s comments on poetic diction in his preface to “Lyrical Ballads.”

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Bert stole Mimi/Andy's phone to snap some selfies, and I stole the selfies from Mimi/Andy.

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Midnight Thoughts

Texas Toast croutons are meant to be eaten alone, as a snack food. 

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Impromptu

Some of us have souls comprised of one matching key and lock, like a comically large luggage security set, barely sealed and barely organized among other souls in a gallon- size Ziploc bag. Others have souls directly intertwined with that of another, in the form of twin cobras resting in a sturdy cardboard box, volatile and risky if released, due to the possibility of them sinking their teeth into other vessels. But at the end of the day we are all fluctuating between fret and relief, together, emerging from the dusky dungeon of the family cruise ship where these crucial manifestations of self are stored.

[fotojournalismus]

Boat Migrants Risk Everything for a New Life in Europe

Eight months after a boat carrying hundreds of migrants sank off the coast of Lampedusa, killing more than 360 people and spurring an international outcry, the flow of migrants risking the perilous sea journey to Europe shows no signs of letting up. Already this year, the number of migrants arriving by boat on Italy’s shores has surpassed 40,000, the total number of migrants that arrived in 2013. 

On World Refugee Day, June 20, TIME is publishing a collection of images from photographer Massimo Sestini, who accompanied the Italian navy on its rescue missions earlier this month. The shots depict the treacherous conditions in which tens of thousands of migrants and refugees attempt the crossing, packed in rickety motorboats with limited supplies. But they also reveal, in a manner rarely seen, the human faces of some of the men, women and children who risk everything to make it to Europe.

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Mandolin (Resilience)

That time I won my first award for writing and took a slanted picture of the announcement outside of the English Department's office. 

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Dreamer

Brown's literary journal,

The Round: http://issuu.com/theroundmagazine/docs/the_round_issue_x

Page 60-61 of the online copy (52-53 of the physical copy).

[bullheadedness]

those wonderful moments when you are alone, thinking, and you just feel an overwhelming love for those special people in your life

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I found it in my mailbox before stepping out for class, thinking I wouldn't have any mail. I was wrong. I did have mail. Then, I couldn't even wait until I got to class to open it. I couldn't. I was that guy, the one who multitasks while reading and inevitably is dangerous to both herself and those around her. Put simply, I didn't care--I was happy! 

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Mardy Bum (With string section) - Glastonbury 2013

Best thing Arctic Monkeys have done in a long time tbh

[jupiterboys]

don’t cry don’t cry don’t cry don’t cry don’t cry don’t cry don’t cry don’t cry

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South Carolina 2013: Southern drawls, okra and biscuits and potato products and fried things called "vegetables", a dash to the home of sweet tea resulting in not sweet tea, but two personal pound cakes (score), beaches in winter, dog friendly everywhere, water all around, ten, twenty, twenty-five hour car rides with Lobo on the CD player, wonderful family time with grits on the side.

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Yesterday, I had just finished my last final and wanted to treat myself. Just a few minutes into the first video, this happened. There were no outlets. This should be a Greek Tragedy.

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My really wonderful poetry class this semester has been especially intriguing to me as we've talked about how we can "hear Hopkins hearing Keats" and "hear Keats hearing Shakespeare," etc.

And all I can think about every time I listen to Drunk in Love is how much I can "hear Jay-Z hearing Beyonce" (and vice versa). 

I mean, damn.

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One word: Beyonce.

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FIRMLY GRASP IT

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Sometimes, all the time, my friends' strength and compassion inspire me and make me think again. And again.