Have you ever seen a giraffe climb a tree?

I have. It was quite a peculiar sight.

loose change.

(I've been collecting change for a couple years now. I plan on donating it to something soon...or it won't fit in the bowl I made)

We will not be silent.

Move for Uganda (a fundraiser for Invisible Children and some other outreaches to Child Soldiers of the LRA) was so great. The weather was perfect and the crowd was a good one to be in. I loved that it was a local thing organized by college kids!

Concerning Lions played. They were fabulous (as always). If you haven't heard their new stuff, you can listen to it here.

What do you want before you die?

Mary Emily

Mahler's 2nd

Rise again, yes, rise again,

Will you My dust,
After a brief rest!
Immortal life! Immortal life
Will He who called you, give you.
To bloom again were you sown!
The Lord of the harvest goes
And gathers in, like sheaves,
Us together, who died.
O believe, my heart, O believe:
Nothing to you is lost!
Yours is, yes yours, is what you desired
Yours, what you have loved
What you have fought for!
O believe,
You were not born for nothing!
Have not for nothing, lived, suffered!
What was created
Must perish,
What perished, rise again!
Cease from trembling!
Prepare yourself to live!
O Pain, You piercer of all things,
From you, I have been wrested!
O Death, You masterer of all things,
Now, are you conquered!
With wings which I have won for myself,
In love’s fierce striving,
I shall soar upwards
To the light which no eye has penetrated!
Its wing that I won is expanded,
and I fly up.
Die shall I in order to live.
Rise again, yes, rise again,
Will you, my heart, in an instant!
That for which you suffered,
To God will it lead you!

-Mahler.

I love that I get to sing stuff like that (in German). With a conductor like Bob Bernhardt.

I'm pretty sure I'm going to cry during tomorrow's performance.

Mary Emily

Broken.

we are all broken things-broken things made lovely in the eyes of the Beautiful One.

Spring Rejoicing

the colored dust on the ground rejoiced with us. spring has come. the cold death of winter is gone. the hope of all things new has taken its place. rejoice, rejoice, life has returned to earth. it turns the sins of the past into sorrowful recollections, and makes the present full of lovely creatures and greenly growing things.

Do you wanna dance?

Prom.



Jenny and I worked so hard on these dresses. They didn't turn out exactly as planned...but I think they look fabulous.
Jenny also made Jonathan's stellar pants. They're so great. Very nice and shiny.



Oh prom. It is all hype and basically horrible. But I got to go with some great people and that made it a lot better.





I only wish I could've taken more photographs! Oh well, maybe sometime.
Happy Sunday
Mary Emily