to forgive, divine.
~Alexander Pope
*I like that first video A LOT (although the title is misleading). Also, another BYU athlete was unfortunately involved with a recent infraction of the Honor Code. Similar to Mr. Davies, this athlete is making amends, both spiritually and academically. Read a smashing article about him here.
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I have a lot of goals and purposes for my blog (read here about it’s many part-time jobs). I have a vision for it. A dream, even. And yet I still can say in two simple words what my main objective is:
What the heck does that even mean?
So, yes friends. That is what I’m striving to do. Hope it’s working at least somewhat. And I think it is, to be honest 🙂 As I have said before, my blog is (partially) a gift to you! And as I have also said before, if it’s not doing it for ya, then there’s a ton of other websites you could be browsing right now….
sure [does] stimulate my brain
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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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that this guy gets more blog time than the rest of them.
And I KNOW Iago isn’t the greatest role model,
but he did rightfully warn about the green-eyed monster of jealousy: (even if the following monster has blue eyes AND blue skin…)
YOU. HAVE. BEEN. ADMONISHED.
(used the word “warn[ed]” already…and I DO follow the apostle Paul, anyways)
And I just got struck by lightening (which followed the thunderbolt of blasphemy, of course).
And I’m very, very sad now…
🙂
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In October 2008, Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin (an apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) gave an address entitled “Come What May and Love it” in Mormon General Conference. It caught on like wild-fire. The address has to do with not only accepting unforeseen circumstances, but also finding JOY in them. Best part is when he mentions how his daughter’s blind-date went awry. The address itself is fantastic to say the least, but I think the REAL genius is in the title/catch-phrase. You see, Elder Wirthlin took a familiar phrase:
AND MADE IT HIS OWN!
And thus he single-handedly spawned many a kitchen plaque and Pinterest Meme…
So that’s the key to making something do so well! Do a phrase twist! Take an idiom/cliche that everyone knows well, and add your own unique spin to it! That way, “that original feeling [will] never [go] away“!
I’ve tried this tactic before; on this blog even! Here are a few of my examples.
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, but it’s NOT Godliness.
Blog is made for Katherine, and NOT Katherine for Blog.
One is sexy dark chocolate, and the other flaxen gold.
Lessons Plans are made for teachers, and NOT teachers for lesson plans.
(oh yah, and the Biebz has been known to do it, too. Here’s one example: The grass ain’t always greener on the other side, it’s green where you water it.)
Of course, I’ll never be able to do it as well as Elder Wirthlin. Come to think of it, his wife was an English major if I remember correctly. He probz got it all from her. And so I guess it looks like my future husband will be an apostle then…TBOB! (thunderbolt of blasphemy)…
PS. In case you are wondering, this post alone contains ideas inspired by the following: Elder Wirthlin, Natasha Bedingfield, BYU, Moulin Rouge, Twitter, The Book of Luke in the New Testament, Justin Bieber, Pinterest, and blasphemy/sacrilege. Well done, Katherine. Well. Done. 🙂
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