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Humidity: 93%
Wind: From SW at 6 mph
For You CCV 2007
Amen CCV 2008
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Posted At: 6:11am by Kelsey Fischer
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 Just because I have this song stuck in my head...and it won't leave, I decided to make y'all suffer too by posting it. Actually, I love this song, and I'm totally addicted to this band. So, my random thoughts of the day are as follows: (to watch the music video for the song go here, or the acoustic version)
"Transylvania" -by: McFly
Anne Boleyn she kept a tin,
Which all her hopes and dreams were in,
She plans to run away with him, forever (never to be seen again)
Leaves a note and starts to choke,
Can feel the lump that's in her throat,
It's raining and she leaves her coat in silence.
We're sorry but we disagree
The boy is vermin, can't you see?
We'll drown his sins and misery
And rip him out of history
[Chorus:]
People marching to the drums,
Everybody's having fun to the sound of love,
Ugly is the world we're on
If I'm right then prove me wrong
I'm stunned (to find a place we belong)
Who is your lover,
I couldn't tell,
When hell freezes over,
That's when I'll tell,
Who is your lover,
I couldn't tell,
When will this stop.
Racing,
Pacing,
In the dark,
She's searching for a lonely heart,
She finds him but his heart has stopped,
She breaks down.
Sorry but your majesty,
Refusing orders from the queen
Results in a monstrosity
Remembers a voice and hears him sing
[Chorus:]
People marching to the drums,
Everybody's having fun to the sound of love,
Ugly is the world we're on
If I'm right then prove me wrong
I'm stunned (to find a place we belong)
Who is your lover,
I couldn't tell,
When hell freezes over,
That's when I'll tell,
Who is your lover,
I couldn't tell,
When will this stop.
People marching to the drums,
Everybody's having fun to the sound of love,
Ugly is the world we're on
If I'm right then prove me wrong
I'm stunned (to find a place we belong)
Who is your lover,
I couldn't tell,
When hell freezes over,
That's when I'll tell,
Who is your lover,
I couldn't tell,
When will this stop.
[Repeat till the end]
When will this stop!
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Posted At: 5:49pm by Kelsey Fischer
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So, I was tagged by Jon to take this quiz, and here are my results:
You Are Kermit
Hi, ho! Lovable and friendly, you get along well with everyone you know. You're a big thinker, and sometimes you over think life's problems. Don't worry - everyone know's it's not easy being green. Just remember, time's fun when you're having flies!
I choose to tag: Anna, Nathan, Katie and Lynea...
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Posted At: 5:37pm by Kelsey Fischer
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 This past spring break has been a wonderful and relaxing experience, and I only wish it could have lasted longer. Anyways, don’t worry I’m not going to bore you with details about sleeping in, eating good food, and sitting around watching the first season of "Battlestar Galactica." Instead, I thought y’all might be interested in the museum exhibit I had the wonderful opportunity to see while being home from college.
The Kimball Art Museum in Fort Worth has been presenting the exhibit, “Picturing the Bible; The Earliest Christian Art.” Now, I know when many people hear “The Early Christian church” they immediately think Roman Catholic, and hopefully you weren’t one of those people. Pre-dating the Roman Catholic Church, there were numerous Christian communities and churches around the known world. Now, this is not to say that the Roman Catholics are not renowned in the art world for their portrayal of Bible stories through pictures. However, the beginning of the exhibit focused solely on art that predated the Roman Catholic Church.
In the early church, in the 4th century, the art focus was on the Holy Sacraments and the means of forgiveness given to us by Christ. They used Old Testament motifs to represent the important beliefs of the church. They focused on the salvation from Christ and not on good works. One example that was used quite frequently was that of the story of Jonah. They depicted Jonah being lowered over-board into the open mouth of a great dragon like creature and then three days later being spat back out. This picture symbolized, in the early church, many things including Baptism, Salvation, and Christ himself. During this time-period, Bibles where also being hand copied and illustrated, but sadly none of them remain today.
 It wasn’t until the sixth century that the early images were replaced by those showing the life and miracles of Jesus. This switched the focus of the pictures from saving grace to good works. This also coincides with the rise of the Roman Catholic Church. This artwork included the “gem-encrusted gold cross presented by the emperor Justin II to Pope John III in the late sixth century, on loan from the Treasury of Saint Peter's in Vatican City. This cross functioned as a reliquary, containing a piece of the True Cross.” The center of the cross has to be covered whenever it leaves the Vatican, because it is able to perform miracles for those people who look upon it. I think you know what I’m getting at with this, so I’m not going to spell it out for you. I have to admit that, this cross was one of the gaudiest things I have seen in my life. However, it was still insanely neat to see it, considering that it was one of the very things Luther wrote against, when he talked about all the relics circulating in the church.
Overall, this exhibit was wonderful to see, and I’m overjoyed that I had the chance to walk through it. So, in closing I just couldn’t resist mentioning that I saw, along with all this art, three illustrated Bibles from the 6th century. “Illustrated manuscripts are among the rarest and most treasured objects in the exhibition. Only a handful of illustrated Bibles from the sixth century have survived, and an unprecedented three of these are included in the exhibition. The Rabbula Gospels, on loan from the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence, were inscribed by a monk named Rabbula in a Syrian monastery, who in 586 A.D. recorded the moment when he had finished the manuscript. The Bibliothèque Nationale de France is lending an illustrated folio—only five of which are extant—from the fragmentary Greek Sinope Gospels, the entire text of which is written in gold on purple-dyed vellum. On loan from the British Library are several fragments of the Cotton Genesis, a Greek manuscript probably produced in Egypt. Although the manuscript was tragically reduced to fragments in 1731 during a fire in the Cotton Library, several fragments survived.” I think that was one of the coolest parts. The Word of God was and forever will be the most important piece passed down from generation to generation. To see the actual texts from the 6th century that were so lovingly copied down by hand just so that it could be preserved was totally and utterly awesome.
Edited on: March 15th, 2008 6:37 pm
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Posted At: 1:20am by Kelsey Fischer
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So I thought I would post something a bit different and share some of my favorite Robert Frost poems with y'all. I was printing them out to post on my door, but I thought y'all might enjoy them too...so I hope you like them!
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village, though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound's the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
(And my exact favorite, because it was used in one of my most beloved books, that was my exact favorite when I was younger, The Outsiders:)
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
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Posted At: 6:29am by Kelsey Fischer
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Jon just had to go and tag me in this...so I guess I have to reply ;-p
1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people.
My closest book is Next by Michael Crichton...so here goes nothin'.
"They owned more patents than the US government. 'The notion that someone owns part of the human genome strikes as unusual,' Bellarmino said. 'But it's what makes America great and keeps our innovation strong.'"
hmmm...sounds a bit odd out of context <shrug>.
So...I tag:
Nathan, Lynea, Pr. Cwirla, Anna, and Kennedy.
Edited on: February 01st, 2008 6:37 am
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