emptiness

Hounddog, starring Dakota Fanning, is a film about the 1950s, gender, race, class, and female sexuality. Oh yeah, and Elvis. Hounddog is in theaters now and was directed by, gasp, a woman!

"There's more to fill up all that emptiness than just Elvis."

They're just as likely to take flight as whitey is.

My house is quiet. Lily is sleeping and the boys have left for school. I need to try to keep myself engaged in other things today so I do not sit around feeling sad all day. I am sad. I am very sad. I don't want to mask it, but I don't want to wallow in it either.

It’s that time of the month when I’m more emotional than usual. More sad. More stressed. More angry. More prone to tears, what ifs, and blank stares.

Recently, a long-time and very dear friend of mine named Jenny sent me an email that carries important words, and good advice. I asked her permission to share it with you all, and she agreed.

I am SO sleepy today. I stayed up WAAAAAY too late last night (Ahem...1:30 a.m.) watching the Olympics. I've REALLY got to stop doing that!! There's more swimming tonight, and I can't wait.

I’ve been reading quite a bit about the Knoxville shootings. Two people dead, hundreds of people seeing a man give his life to save theirs, a day where children woke up, excited to be in a musical in front of their friends, their family and their fellowship.

The Cosmic Dance

What is serious to men is often very trivial in the sight of God. What
in God might
appear to us as "play" is perhaps what He Himself takes most
seriously. At any rate
the Lord plays and diverts Himself in the garden of His creation, and if
we could let
go of our own obsession with what we think is the meaning of it all, we
might be able

The Cosmic Dance

Lufthansa has an amusing (though logo-filled) Flash game on their Web site: You get a map of North America and Europe, and a graphic of a Lufthansa aircraft flying from JFK to somewhere across the Atlantic. The name of the destination city flashes on the screen and you have a few seconds to click on the appropriate location for the plane to land before it crashes.