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some of the photos are my own...some are not.

all are rather pretty.

Simple Pleasures

1. Sneezing
2. Brushing your teeth in the shower
3. Receiving a text that says "i miss you"
4. Wearing leggings, a tank top, and sweater boots
5. Having the house to yourself, taking a shower, then dancing
6. Having a cat come and sit in your lap
7. Waking up with no where important to go right away
8. Tealights
9. Eating cheezits and drinking icy water
10. Not having chapped lips

Fresh air.

A newly fallen snow really does make everything feel ok.

Changes and revamps.

I've decided to give my blog a bit of a makeover, as I've also simultaneously decided to start blogging again. Not so much about my life, but about life in general....maybe. I'm not sure exactly. We will see where the wind takes me.

On that note, I've had some Ecclesiastes running through my mind lately along with the "Chasing the Wind" by This Providence.

Ecclesiates 1:16-18

I thought to myself, "Look, I have grown and increased in wisdom more than anyone who has ruled over Jerusalem before me; I have experienced much of wisdom and knowledge." ¹⁷ Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom, and also of madness and folly, but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind.

For with much wisdom comes much sorrow;
the more knowledge, the more grief.

This all seems to me to be quite similar to "Ignorance is bliss." And sometimes that is true. There are so many things in life that I wish I didn't have to know, but to be honest, though they cause me grief, they contribute to my overall self. I don't like knowing about all the poverty, perverseness and sadness that exists around me and around the world, but if I didn't, I think my actions would hold less meaning sometimes. But at the same time, we need to know that it's not humanly possibly to know everything, all that God knows. And sometimes the pursuit of knowledge can get in the way of what really matters, so if this pursuit impedes that, it is all for naught.

So as I've just finished my first semester at colleges, I've tried to keep this in mind. Yes, my classes are important, and my grades, but sometimes the most valuable aspects of the college experience come from outside the classroom. Conversations, mistakes, sights, relations...these things teach just as much as a professor. And I try not to forget that.

....Only I think I've been remembering that TOO much on occasion and have been struggling to find that balance between studies and sociality. And sleep.

All I can say is that I have quite a journey ahead of me these next four years.

"Nothing matters, I'm just chasing the wind. If I can't have you darlin'"