Impasse

If my intention is for your benefit, but my method is unfair, then please pardon my effort; either I am not compassionate enough, blinded by my little understanding of your personal struggles, or my sincere attempt to help you is being misunderstood because of your complacency in your pride notwithstanding the circumstances.

Coming on the last stretch

About three weeks left of school.... time to really crank things up a notch. I'm not in the best of spirits to really go for it but I've resolved to end these last weeks strong.

It doesn't help that this past Monday wasn't the best day... lol.

This Christmas is going to be amazing.

Books

So yesterday I was at a thrift store and searched around, then found myself in the used book section.  With as much I have to read for school already, I still couldn't stop myself from buying a book - and at a great, great price I may add. lol

"Vegetable Destiny"

Foolish impatient apricot trees,
gave off flowers in too great a hurry.

Look at them, as in years past,
wind-frozen, thin and vain,

on the branches, with transparent blood
I don't know how to staunch -

for the frost, cruel though it seems,
pays no heed to apricots.

The other trees, far-sighted,
await the floral hour quietly,
with dutiful branches and closed buds,

oblivious to apricot-tree death.

-Nina Cassian 

(translated from Romanian by Michael Impey and Brian Swann)  

Happy Thanksgiving!

Perhaps the first literary account of the idea of Native Americans and Pilgrims having a meal together (with the epitome that is a turkey) is vividly written by colonist William Bradford in Of Plymouth Plantation.  I had the chance this semester to read portions of this text, especially the "first Thanksgiving account".  It was really interesting that the image that I was taught throughout my life of how the "first Thanksgiving" looked sounded extremely like how Bradford wrote it! The irony is that the actual event is less than likely to have ever happened (at least, not in the way Bradford described it with happy feelings of peace).  However, what did connect in the way of Thanksgiving was the colonists' appreciation for their belief of God's Providence in their lives; the idea stands to American culture today: Thank God for all his blessings.

Woke up this morning really contemplating all the blessings I've been given throughout my life... I'm a really blessed guy.  Everything truly happens for a reason.  Thank God!

Hoping that you and your family have a very happy and blessed Thanksgiving.

"Life is a single skip for joy...."

... But you have to "cut the rope to make the leap".