The Meditations of My Heart

When did I start taking life so seriously? I have never really been one to be all "Ok. Let's get this thing done." Usually I'm the one taking my time waiting until the eleventh hour (like how i am currently putting off making a research website about the Titanic that is due on January 6... I probably won't even get to it until Monday). Last week when I was supposed to be cleaning my room, I found some of my journals from the beginning and middle of this year. Though many of the entries were actually God glorifying (unlike many of my journals from younger years) God brought to my attention a few places where I went wrong. There are two people, specifically that I remember seeing come up in my journal repetitively, and written there were my tremendously harsh judgments about them. I was disgusted with my writing and how introverted my thinking was. Though I loved life, I seemed to be filled with nasty thoughts about these people and it made me sick to my sto...

Is is just me, or does anyone else weep when then hear the song "Christmas Shoes"? I dread hearing it played on the radio every year because it is just so sad! However, there is an incredible message behind it that I think we all can learn from :) That little boy was SO selfless. All he wanted for Christmas was to bless his mom with shoes so she would look beautiful when she went to meet Jesus. I have been thinking about it for the past few days and just can't seem to wrap my mind around it. Here I am, with a Christmas list that is the length of my body, hoping that I get at least a few things from it. The truth is, I don't need a back light for photography or Talladega Knights on DVD. I have already been blessed with every thing I need... salvation, a family who loves me, and a God who loves me even more! The true meaning of Christmas can get lost in the anxiety of gift giving. Often we tend to be consumed with considerations of purchase prices and the shock...

Par request of a friend, this post features the paper I had to write for my Graduation Project at Agora... For my graduation project, I chose to job shadow some ladies at Studio M Photographic. I chose this location because I am very interested in photography and want to start my own photography and design business after college. Since Studio M is where I currently work, it was pretty easy to get an internship with them. Studio M is a high-end portrait studio that offers both imaging and design. For the first part of the job shadowing, I was able to do a few on-location shoots with my boss. She showed me some helpful things to do when one is photographing people outside. Tips like holding your hand up to assess the lighting and shadows, I have found to be very helpful in my own photography. Also, she showed me how to hold flash lighting in order to get an optimized natural-looking portrait. The second part of the intership involved various types of studio work. I ...

Wow. So I haven't posted nearly a month. I have many reasonable explanations for my blogging absence. It seems like I start every new post like this now, but it's just so hard to find time to blog when I have to write the draft to my 2,500 word paper on Elizabeth Barrett Browning in two days (because I procrastinated) and finish my college application, and write the essay for it, and do my national history day project, and have a job (which my last day will be Dec. 18th), and babysit, and have my own business, and run FISH Teens. SO there. Thats my explanation in a big, long, run-on sentence. But that is how my brain has been functioning as of late. In a big, long, run-on sentence. I am so relieved that I am quitting my job. I feel like it was an amazing experience for me to have had while it lasted, and I learned SO much about running my own business while I was there (like what TO do and what NOT to do.) I am very grateful that I had the opportunity to work for Ma...

If you want to see more from this portrait session click here. If you follow me on Flickr, there are even more here. (If you don't follow me, the images won't show up on the Flickr link as they have been set to private.)

Well due to the various random things that have been consuming my life as of late, I have been unable to chronical my most recent weeks via blog post. I'm so bad about making the time for it. :( Last week was my first college interview... The Art Institute of Pittsburgh. It was so cool to be able to see all of the different works of art done by the students there. I also learned that much of the art that we see on a daily basis was done by AI alumni. Things like the video game Halo, the advertising for the Yaris automobile, Abercrombie and Fitch t-shirts, and even the most recent Super Bowl memorabilia. All quite interesting, I thought. The campus was ok, but I just didn't get the "feeling". I don't exactly know what the "feeling" feels like, but I've heard that you'll just know which college is right for you. The Art Institute has been officially marked off my list. Though I was really upset that I didn't like the AI last week, I th...