Ourselves Revealed

Hello beautiful souls! It’s hard to write a blog because my head is still buzzing with everything that was thrown at us during orientation. I could write about the physical and emotional experiences of moving to a new city, or I could write about the spiritual and emotional discussions we had about boundaries, race, and privilege we had on the second day of new student orientation. However, I feel like unpacking that right now would cause me an emotional headache; so in order to avoid that emotional headache, I will right about an interest of mine, movies. Specifically animated Disney and Studio Ghibli movies. I love the way Disney weaves intricate morals and values into retellings of fairytales in family movies. I love the whimsical worlds that Hayao Miyazaki paints for us as if we are getting a glimpse into his dreams. These movies are pictures of fantastical wonderment; I feel like I enjoy animated movies even more so than live action movies. I’m an avid fan of Disney and Studi...

Potluck with some beautiful people before I leave Los Angeles I’m not just saying that because that Martina McBride song is stuck in my head, this blog really is for the girls. Well the girls and a couple of guys. Right now I am in a season of transition, transferring from a year of volunteer work with the Young Adult Volunteer, YAV, program (check out blog here: http://throughtheyesofayav.blogspot.com/ ) to seminary.  While serving as a YAV in LA was: a difficult, insane, chaotic, beautiful, life changing, spiritual, and transformative year, I also expect seminary to be a difficult, insane, chaotic, beautiful, life changing, spiritual, and transformative experience. However, I expect it to be transformative in a way different from being a YAV, I expect it to be beautiful in a way different from being a YAV, etc. One of the ways I processed and coped with my experiences in LA was by blogging. I enjoyed blogging because I would have to take my time and careful refl...