A Little Flower Grows

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{Midweek Musings} Feast Day Edition

Currently:Listening: to my Taylor Swift station on Pandora. So far, I’ve heard music from the likes of Colbie Caillat, Jason Mraz, and of course Taylor Swift herself. Reading: finishing up excerpts of The Decameron by Boccaccio, and beginning The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer ~ courtesy of my awesome Medieval Literature class. Eating/drinking: a chocolate milkshake. Because today isRead More

{Midweek Musings} 3.18.15

Currently: Listening: got some Birdy + Taylor Swift going on Pandora ~ two of my favs.  Reading: parts of The Decameron by Boccaccio for my Medieval Literature class. Eating/drinking: well, I just ate some Pop-tarts, and now I’m drinking water. Exciting, I know. Wearing: a greenish dress with a blue + pink floral design (ForeverRead More

Spring Break Favorites

My favorite things about this spring break:  ~ sleeping in my own bed~ cuddling with my dog + cat~ Sunday Mass at my home parish~ lunch at my favorite restaurant~ enjoying the late-winter / early-spring temperatures + sunshine~ the feeling of spring being on its way~ sitting in on my favorite class from high school~Read More

{Midweek Musings} Spring Break Edition

Currently ~Listening: to the sound of the dishwasher running in my kitchen. One of the lovely sounds of home. Reading: take a wild guess. Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. How did you know?!Actually, I’ve kind of been letting homework fall to the wayside this break, so I haven’t really been reading much. But if I was readingRead More

{Midweek Musings} 3.4.15

Currently: Listening: to whatever comes on in the coffee shop I’m sitting in, which has included some Taylor Swift, Plain White T’s, and Imagine Dragons. I approve. Reading: like last week, Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics for my philosophy class. Our midterm is on Friday, so the Ethics has basically been my life lately, and will be forRead More

Reflections on “The Passion of the Christ”

Last night, I watched Mel Gibson’s movie, “The Passion of the Christ” with some friends after praying the Stations of the Cross. I’d seen this movie twice before, although it had been 3 or 4 years since my last viewing of it. When I watched it last night, it moved me deeply ~ I thinkRead More

{Midweek Musings} 2.25.15

Currently: Listening: to Birdy’s album “Fire Within.” I love, love, love her voice and her songs.Reading: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics for my philosophy class. The human good is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue. Deep stuff, right? I love it.Wearing: a black and white tribal-ish printed sundress, a black cardigan, and black, bejeweled sandals.Read More

{D.R. Mission Trip} Part 3: Fun with the Kids

Hello everyone! Thanks for reading my series on my mission trip to the Dominican Republic. I hope you’re enjoying it so far! Be sure to check out Part 1 and Part 2 if you missed them!Each day after working around the compound, we girls were free to go outside and play with all the kids.Read More

{D.R. Mission Trip} Part 2: Self-sacrifice

Each day of our mission trip, we girls would get up, after a long, restful night’s sleep, for breakfast at 8am. Then by 9am, we would disperse, heading off to various jobs, ready to put in a hard day’s work around the compound at NPH. some of the NPH kids My group was spending theRead More

{D.R. Mission Trip} Part 1: Surrendering

On January 4, 2015, I cut my Christmas break a week short to travel to a foreign country to do something I’d never done: mission work. overlooking the water + the Dominican Republic I bid home goodbye after a short and sweet two-week stay, and flew back down to my college in Florida. There IRead More