Friday, May 4, 2007 - Tomorrow will be better
My mother recently finished reading a book called "Tomorrow Will Be Better". It's about the people in a country (it wasn't Germany, but I forget now what it was) who were being oppressed by the nazis during WWII. Anyway, my mother read a quote to us from near the end, about how tomorrow will be better, and the sun will come out in the end. It reminded me of a quote from "The Lord of the Rings", where Frodo and Sam are traveling, and Sauron has blotted out the sun, but as the sun is about to set, one ray of light breaks through the dark clouds, and falls on a statue they had been looking at. It is a statue of a king, but the head of it has been cut off, and the orcs have scrawled their writing on it. But the ray of light falls on the head, and reveals a crown of flowers growing there, like a wreath, and the light makes it shine and twinkle. And Frodo says, "They cannot conquer forever." And it's true. It's hard, it is very, very hard, but it will not always be. If you are a Christian, there is always something to look forward to, even the only thing is Heaven. Someday, maybe not tomorrow or the next day, but someday, things will be better. Things will be right. Because they cannot conquer forever.
Does anyone have any quotes or Bible verses they'd like to share on this subject? I'd be very interested to hear them.
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Monday, April 30, 2007 - Ugh. (And writing experiment)
What a day. I had to answer the phone several times - which I don't like much - and call several people - which I like even less. Oh, well. As a friend of mine pointed out, it could have been worse: I could have gotten a wrong number. And I didn't - not once. I'm quite glad for that. Heh. I tend to be an optimist, when I can. What's the point in not being optimistic, after all? 
Well, I should think of something else to write, but there doesn't seem to be anything else. Hmm...perhaps, well, I feel like just writing nothing: just spitting out whatever I'm hearing and seeing and thinking. So I will.
Sounds waving, and rolling,
Crashing threateningly like
The waves on the shore,
On the rocks.
Voices
Speaking words unknown,
Rising,
Falling,
Uncaring
If I am listening
For they are perhaps long-dead
And I never to know.
How strange. It ended up describing the song I was listening to. How fascinating and intriguing! I've never tried this before, but I must be sure to try it again.
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Friday, April 20, 2007 - Thank you!
I just want to thank my mother and father. I was feeling kinda down today, and they did something extra-special for me, and made me feel a lot better. Thank you both very much. For today and always.
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - Stupid goats!
So yesterday. *groan* Mommy (that's my mother, you know) comes inside, and says the goats are nowhere on our property. So we run about, Mommy calls their names, and we get in the car and go up and down the road looking for them. So we come back, figuring maybe they'll come back when it's milking time and they start getting uncomfortable. Then Mommy decides to go down the road again on foot one more time, and Daddy (that's my father, you know) says to me, "Why don't you go over to the pasture and check the buildings." Well, it was something along those lines. My apologies to him if I quoted inaccurately.
So anyway, I go over into the pasture and check inside a bunch of these shack-type buildings that the previous owner threw together, and I hear a thunking sound from inside one of them. Sure enough, when I open the door, there they all are: four white goats. A gust of wind (there were several yesterday) must have blown the door open, and then, being a heavy door, it probably just swung back into place and the STUPID *ahem* goats couldn't figure out that you could just push it open and hop out... Caused all that fuss...
Well, that's the way it goes, and it's all in God's providence. Plus, it was yesterday, so I'm so over it. 
This orange color definitely does not complement the lavender background. Hmm.
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Saturday, April 14, 2007 - Real-life quote! (#2)
Sorry it's been so long since my last post. Over two weeks, arg! But...
Yes, that's right, another real-life quote! The second ever! This time it's courtesy of...The tax form!
"Print your [Blogger's note: file this word away for future reference] first name and middle initial here."
Okay, that's not so bad, right? But look at the next thing on the line:
"Check [i.e. put a mark here] if deceased."
Oooookaaaay......
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007 - Laundromats
You know, laundromats? Where you wash your clothes, for a variety of reasons? Well, you know what Bilbo said about Rivendell (sorry for those of you who aren't LotR/Tolkien fans), "Time doeesn't seem to pass there: it just is." Well, ironically, in laundromats, time may seem to pass, but there is, in fact, NO TIME WHATSOEVER. Sure, go ahead and laugh. But next time you go to a laundromat, take NO watches or timepieces of any kind. Yes, I'm serious (what can it hurt?). You will find that there is no way to tell time. Because there is no time. The most reliable way to tell how much time there is in the outside world is to keep track of how many things you've done: i.e. how many loads of laundry, how many pages you've read in that book or magazine you brought, how many times you've looked out the window and sighed, etc.
Try it or forever wonder if I'm right....
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Monday, March 26, 2007 - Real-life quote!
Thanks to my mother for summing up the weirdness today! Maybe tomorrow it will be someone else who will say something weird, but for now, my mother gets the credit for this first real-life quote on my new blog.
"I gotta go get some geranium leaves. I'll be right back."
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Monday, March 26, 2007 - This is my problem with blogging...
Okay, so here I am, right? I have great material for blogging. Spring is here, there was a baptism at church yesterday, I have recently met a good friend, etc, etc, etc. But here is my problem: I don't know what to make out of it. I have no smart remarks or wise conclusions. Most of my smart, interesting remarks come to me at night while I'm laying in bed at night, staring at the bottom of the bunk above me (which, by the way, has no one sleeping in it due to the fact that all my sisters have left the nest), and of course, my choices at that point are a) get up and write down this smart remark, probably harshly waking myself up by turning on the bright light, or b) try to remember it and probably fail to remember that I even had anything I wanted to remember.
Thus I come to actually posting, and I have two choices here also, a) wait until I come up with something smart and/or interesting (fat chance of that, or of remembering it) or b) sit down and write something randomly and hope it turns out okay. Best case scenario: so silly and random it ends up amusing. Yeah. Like that's gonna work.
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Monday, March 19, 2007 -
So here I am....Mommy's back is sore from last night's family adventure, which was helping a goat get back on the correct side of the fence...*sigh* Goats are so stubborn. And of course it had to be the goat who acts like a shy deer, even to us. But anyway. We managed to lead her through a gate in the fence, which we had never opened before and had to saw through the chain with a hacksaw. That was my evening. Just another day on the farm...uh, homestead.
I wrote a poem today to help me focus my mind on the book I'm writing. (It's a novel) I wrote it to sort of ground that part of my brain in the point where the story is right now, and maybe help me get out of my writer's block.
I'm still poking around the blog, figuring out what you can do with it...Did you know you can change the size of the smileys? Ooo....
Pixely...
Teeny. Haha!
I'm in a poem-writing mood, but I can't seem to think of a good subject. Ack. Maybe I could try haiku again, but I haven't been very good at them...all the more reason to try again, I suppose. If anyone reads this and thinks of an idea for a poem, post a comment, and if I write about it, or it gives me an idea, maybe I'll post it!
I need to think of a good signature, too.
~Mantirwen.
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Friday, March 16, 2007 - My third post in one day...Don't get used to it.
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Friday, March 16, 2007 - Cool Wedding!
I just got back from a wedding, and it was the best one I've ever been to! Okay, I haven't been to many, but it was still cool. The ceremony was good. The pastor preached a sermonette, and then there were the vows and all, and as the pastor said the benediction, the suns came out from behind the clouds (and shone right in our eyes, but I don't think anyone cared). Also, when the bride walked up the "aisle" (it was an outdoor wedding), it was to a collective accapello rendition of "It is Well With My Soul", and when the couple walked back down, it was to a recording of the theme from the Rocky movie(s?). And then there was a reception immediately following, and a bluegrass band played. There was a fiddle and a banjo and some weird-looking stringed instrument that was like an oddly-shaped guitar. Sort of. And there was a base fiddle, too, I think.
Anyway, once it got dark, some kids from church, including me, got some cans out of the garbage and "decorated" the new couple's car. I'd never done that before, and was a lot of fun. We had tin cans on the back so that they'd drag along, and draped some toilet paper on the inside, and put flowers and flower petals on the seats and stuff. (See? Flowers. We're nice. ) Anyway, it was all in good fun. I hope we'll get to hear a funny story about what they think of our decorating.
Then we went back to the barn (which was where the reception was and the band was playing: I really need to explain myself better) and there was lively music playing, and I started swaying and moving my feet, and after awhile, my friend Caroline came over and said "Come on, you're going to dance with me." So I figured, why not? I'd feel uncomfortable dancing with a guy anyway. (Too awkward.) So we danced, even though neither of us know how, but that's part of what made it fun. And when we left, they hadn't even started the planned bonfire yet, and so I imagine they'll be there until at least 11.
Wow, this is probably the longest blog post I've ever written, and there's even more I could have told you, like the different ways people were dancing. But the main thing is, it was fun, and it was different.
Also, it was a celebration of the holy union of two people in marriage, and it was a celebration that went on long enough for it to really seem like a celebration. It felt like a celebration, which is what really makes it stand out from other weddings and receptions I've been to. It was special. Maybe my wedding will be like that.
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Friday, March 16, 2007 - Well, here I am.
Here I am. I've never had much success with blogs. You know, two posts in two days, and then nothing for six months.... But I am making a goal! One post a week. Yes. That shouldn't be too bad. I can do this.
So does this count as my post for this week? Actually, it might, seeing as the week is almost over. Well, you never know. i might post again.
Anyway, welcome to my new blog! Thanks for your patronage, and come again!
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