Archive for April, 2008
Posted on April 29, 2008. Filed under: Journaling | Tags: peace, Africa, american, america, uganda, invisible children, humanitarian crisis, us, usa, representative mckeon, buck mckeon, mckeon, gulu, displacement camps, peace talks, juba, sudan, northern uganda, youth, apathy, activism |
To Representative McKeon,
My name is Alexandra Coffin. I am a representative of the ICU Club at Valencia High School in Santa Clarita, CA.
You may or may not know of our cause. We are a dedicated group of kids focused on bringing peace to Uganda, Africa. Our ultimate goal is to end the civil war that [...]
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Posted on April 29, 2008. Filed under: Brain Dump, Journaling | Tags: trust, consequences, shut up, secret, gossip, rumor, blame, trusting, secretive, ashamed |
Obviously, I have a thing for titling my blogs after Matthew Good songs. Smart man, he is.
Maybe it’s because he’s always right, kind of like a few other people in my life (You know who you are. After all, you’re always right).
There’s this thing called the Secret. We have a tendency to tell ourselves we [...]
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Posted on April 28, 2008. Filed under: Journaling | Tags: arturo, blah, change, dialect, henry miller, italian, Language, masses, peace, speak, talk, tongue |
I am incapable of this mastery.
The Italian at Henry Miller’s grand birthday dinner-truly a birthday, or was it a lie on Miller’s part?-Arturo, cried in pain at his fellow guests’ eloquence and vocabulary. He knew he could never master the English language as they had.
And, as such, I shall never understand the language of this [...]
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Posted on April 23, 2008. Filed under: Journaling | Tags: addiction, alive, bare, barefooting, blood, coc, cutting, element, feet, finally, hippy, life, live, monkey's fist, music, peace, peace walk, Santa Clarita, SCV, thirty days, truth, Valencia |
There’s an old Navy saying. It goes something like “Never trust a sailor on his first day or on his last.”
Recovery’s kind of like that.
I’m just now learning why thirty days is such a big deal. I wonder how many people get past day 29. I know I almost didn’t.
The past few days, I’ve wanted [...]
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Posted on April 9, 2008. Filed under: Brain Dump | Tags: air conditioner, christmas break, cold, heat, hot, lame, spring break, summer vacation, vacation, winter break |
Spring break is far too short for anything interesting to happen.
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