to be ahead of your time!
I relate to Emma Stone’s character “Skeeter” a lot: We both are writers, we both interview women, we both are unmarried, we both have bad hair days, we both care about certain social causes (and sometimes worry about what our female counterparts are doing!), we’ve both witnessed boys do and say dumb things, but most of all, we both are awesome!
It ain’t a crime
to be ahead of your time!
🙂
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Truths to Consider:
1) WE ARE ALL ARTISTS! (here’s Prezident Uchtdorf’s take on this…)
2) We ain’t all gonna make it big (and that’s okay, ya’ll!)
3) Stem of Jesse (Jessica!) in the scriptures
4) What insight “The Merchant of Venice” taught me about the HBO filth series “Girls”
5) My take on “The Great Gatsby” in 3 sentences.
6) Haven’t yet written about Mark Twain’s ever famous and influential piece (Huck Finn). Stay. Tuned.
7) What Amanda Bynes (indirectly) taught me about Mormon temples.
8) “American Idol” certainly has produced some talent, but overall is waaaaay over-rated.
9) Hozaboutcha take an exodus from this blog and go read about what Moses says about idols? (here!)
10) Katherine loves wordplay. And admit it, she’s pretty darn awesome at it, huh? 🙂
Simon Cowell…
(muuuuch better, darlin’)
Just sayin’
(Kath, refer to your title in an awesome way that only you can…)
this song is one of the best in recent history. just sayin’
🙂
So friends please take it to heart, when I say to go make some art!
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is blowing in the wind!
Dear friends,
Although I love Bobby (he was named after the British poet Dylan Thomas!), I proclaim that the answers to life’s questions are in actuality NOT blowing in the wind; they instead come from righteous men and women who are inspired of God! I invite you to watch the next session or two of LDS General Conference. Click here para más información.
Hope you take me up on that offer. But if not, I guess we can still be friends…
And although I ADORE Kacey Musgraves,
I ain’t just blowin’ smoke…
(figuratively or literally…)
I’m tell you the answer(s), my friend(s)…
🙂
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Nopers. But they do relate. Let Ms. Wilkinson explain:
STREAM. OF. CONSCIOUSNESS.
this video might clear things up a lil’
In layman’s terms, stream of consciousness refers to a thought process of flowing psychological associations and often incorporates different senses and stimuli other than simply verbal, such as colors (yellow, anyone?).
Stream of consciousness has been described as a loose interior monologue of the writer or narrator’s thoughts.
Cool!
The Modernist writer James Joyce is a well-known name associated with it. Singer-songwriter Jason Mraz is also a champion of this literary technique and even makes specific mention of it in his oh so awesome song “Wordplay” :
Jason Mraz is a HUGE influence on me, btw.
And James Joyce? Meh…
Oh, and Jimmy not meaning to be rude, but lemme show you someone who can REALLY play that 6 stringed instrument that you hold with such seeming lack of confidence:
(I was wearing a flesh colored shirt under that dress by the way.)
Not really.
Hope my readers enjoyed that brief thrill of my smooth and silky shoulders.
Glad I could spice up your day a little bit.
Thunderbolt of blasphemy.
(time to impress everyone with your mad bookending skillz)
Anyways, girl didn’tcha learn to dress more modestly when you were just a wee lass?
Like in Primary?
BYE!
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can compensate
for FAILURE in the home.
~LDS President David O. Mckay
And some broken bones and a broken home are all he’ll have to show.
LINE OF PROPRIETY
myth vs. experience
Dear Readers:
Let me again express that I never intend to be judgmental or unkind to anyone, not even concerning such individuals as Charlie Sheen (Although truthfully it’s hard NOT to judge such a troubled man). I wish to emphasize that all of us are children of God. ALL OF US. But I just can’t help but think of how badly Mr. Sheen needs Christ. I mean, we all do, but for some people, it is more obvious and drastically evident, know what I’m sayin’?
“No other success can compensate for failure in the home.”
(readers, remember that quote por favor. it’s totez important)
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to get off the computer for a little bit! Go for a walk, go do a load of laundry, go volunteer at a nursing home, go call your sister, go read your scriptures, go plan your week. And the list goes on, and on.
Seriously folks, we are TOO ONLINE these days! I very much appreciate that you read my blog, but the OUTERnet can be even better than the INTERnet.
I love this song of Mr. Paisley‘s.
It is a PERFECT satire of this social problem
(although there is the teensiest bit of mild lyrical innuendo)
And Elder David A Bednar of the LDS Church warns of this ubiquitous problem
of assuming fake identities on the internet.
CLICK HERE for that talk (and my sweet thoughts on it) that is insanely awesome…
But back to Ms. Wilkinson’s main point (bookending!)
I love you all (platonically and literally),
but right now I think it would be oh! so wise
to go attend to the matters of real life, know what I mean?
So now skedaddle! GO DO SOMETHING!
But I’ll see ya back here eventually, right?
🙂
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I don’t know it all (many people assume I do), but there is one thing I DO know very strongly. And for the safety of your own self-esteem and confidence, you do NOT want to talk with me about.
Dear readerz,
Look at my title (if you haven’t already).
Figure it out (if you haven’t already).
And now someone alert the media because I’ve just been hit with a thunderbolt of blasphemy for comparing those 2 men.
🙂
And you’re gonna hear me ROAR!
I really, REALLY like this song a lot…
I once read an interpretation of “The Yellow Wallpaper” where the narrator was compared to a lion…
Not even gonna go there…
BOOKENDING Ahead:
OH, and FYI, it’s okay if you don’t love/listen to/like his music. One of my best friends does not…
BUT THE MAN HAS MAD SKILLZ!
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I have a confession to make that may cause you to question my ethos as a thinker/writer/scholar:
Back to December all the time…
(don’t love this song, but am sad I didn’t mention DECEMber in the video AND I love Taylor’s whole look here…)
Anyways, libraries can be amazing, but even the great American transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson knew that they could be problematic:
“Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views, which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books.”
~The American Scholar (this address is SO powerful. Read (about) it!
And to further illustrate (figuratively AND literally!) this idea of library limits,
allow me to borrow some palabras from my dear friend:
“They read all the books, but they CAN’T FIND THE ANSWERS!”
~7 time Grammy Winner (and thief of Kat’s heart) John Mayer
so BACK TO BIBLIOTECHAS (after that long but still fascinating tangent)!
Let’s ask ourselves what are the extremes/outliers to all the stuff available to us today..
Where is the wisdom in all this knowledge?
(click here to read even more about an OVERLOAD of information)
Eternal struggle between reading and writing…
(good problem to have…)
READERS!
What things do you like about the library? What things intimidate you?
And do you know how to use the DDS?
perdida in the periodicals….
AWESOME JOB, KATHERINE!
Now sleepy (?) students (readers),
RISE AND SHINE!
because it’s time for a little blog assignment:
Go count how many religious/pop cultural/music/literary/ biligual references I made in this post…
don’t forget the title!
DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION YET?
🙂
Go gotta go hang out with my boyfriend Harold now…
BOOK-ending…
literally
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I’ll let the video speak for itself:
Regina George may think people can wear whatever they want on October 31st.
But Katherine Anne does NOT!
There are many beautiful, wonderful things in life in which to find humor & joy.
The Holocaust is NOT one of them.
If you agree with me (and you should!), please spread this message/post anyway that you can.
Oh, also I read a book by the German LDS General Authority F. Enzio Busche.
It changed my life.
Must write about it soon. Until then, here’s a wonderful video by him:
But back to costumes (bookending again!),
here is one of my personal favorites of my own:
Strong women are hot, ya’ll.
Click here for some of my other Halloween hits (literally!) and misses…
And speaking of, if somebody’s costume offends you,
don’t be afraid to stand up for yourself.
Take a tip from my friend (pictured above!) Rosie (the Riveter).
And to sum up in one brilliant phrase my beliefs on costumes,
allow me to quote from THE greatest playwright of all time.
“There is much truth in jest (for good and for bad)”
~William Shakespeare
Now it’s time for a little text-to-self connection (my favorite part!):
Righteous Readers: what do your Halloween Costumes say about you (for good and for bad)?
PS. If you think the fact that there is a Picture of a Pumpkin on this Post (about Halloween!) is a coincidence, THINK AGAIN.
🙂
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Explore More Issues Here:
3) Bad hair day means good writing day!
4) Bragging? Guilty. YOU WOULD TOO!
Oh, and by the way, I was singing a version of a John Mayer song (SHOCKING, right?)….
The song is VERY interesting. The melody/guitar itself is hauntingly beautiful, but the words are contradicting the story-teller’s true convictions (unreliable narrators are FASCINATING). You see, Johnny is lonely and trying to convince himself that he can engage in self-destructive behaviors (drugs, women, etc.) and it won’t effect him. Sad.
Have done my own version of “Who Says.” And I will DEFINITELY include it soon…
But Back to the Benjamins:
Laughing all the way to the bank…
PS. The check wasn’t for a ton. And also it will not even begin to cover the costs of medical expenses I will incur from the pending thunderbolt of blasphemy I will shortly receive due to my comparing myself to Brad Paisley.
🙂
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We at war with terrorism,
We at war with racism,
but most of all, we at war with ourselves.
A thousand little wars I have to choose between
Some of the greatest battles will be fought within
the CHAMBERS OF YOUR OWN SOUL.
I’m in the war of my life.
JESUS WALKS.
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