6/15/07

I am back in Maine from a three week adventure to Oklahoma to ask a girl out and to Portland to be in my good friend Dan's wedding. To learn more about my girlfriend you can read the story of how it all went down on my latest blog entry.

5/19/07

"I like you the way you are," she said, "but you'll be more comfortable with your shoulder strap fastened."

Corduroy

5/11/07

I just moved back to Maine to help my dad build a house for my aunt. I have had an absolutely amazing last few months in the OKC. I made some wonderful friendships and have had a lot of internal growth. God is working in my heart to show me my worth and his purpose for me.

12/12/06

For the last month I have been making up for a lifetime of not reading. So far I have read 2/3 of the old testament, The North Face of God by Ken Gire, Wild at Heart by John Eldredge, How to Heal the Sick by Charles & Frances Hunter, Malaria Dreams by Stuart Stevens, Bruchko by Bruce Olson, The Red Tent by Anita Diamant, and C.T. Studd Athlete & Pioneer by Norman P. Grubb.

In a couple of days my family and I will be driving down to Georgia for my cousin Ethan's Wedding and then I have a one way ticket to my new home of Oklahoma. As of now I have no idea where i will live or what I will do. I am moving there so I can spend more time with my wonderful cousin Jessie, who if she wasn't my first cousin I would probably try and marry. Also, I want to try living amongst a younger community again and see where life takes me.

11/13/06

Well I am back on the East Cost but without Internet for a while. I had a wonderful time in Portland and especially enjoyed trick or treating with my oldest niece Melissa, her boyfriend Michael, and a couple of her friends. It was a wonderful 3 hours of fun in which time I was a bearded woman with a long black dress with black fathers and a black wig. We hit up three neighborhoods and I got 266 pieces of candy, 1 crappie sun, 1 thing of pink play Dow, and 1 apple (which I ate even though it could have been poisoned). Picture will come once my sister’s computer get online again, which might be a while.

10/23/06

Tomorrow I stretch out my arms and fly west with my sister and lil Lilly. It should be quite an adventure as I have never embarked across country with a three and a half month old. Sadly enough last night when driving home we discovered the only sure way of quieting my growing niece when she acts up, is done by showing her Pixar shorts on my video IPOD. So if it comes to it tomorrow for the sake of everyone on board I will go against my better judgment and promote the showing cartoons to infants.

10/21/06

I just finished reading, "Reaching for the Invisible God" by Philip Yancey. I would recommend Yancey to anyone who has doubt or struggles with their faith from time to time. He is a man who has done a lot of struggling and understands that it is part of the process of maturing spiritually. In his writings he uses a lot of other people’s quotes and thoughts. It is nice to hear such a verity of similar issues that I and others I know have and are dealing with.

10/11/06

B E A utiful! Such arrays of colors with hills so thick that ever detail gets lost in the next, colors being brought out and taken away with every ray of light, I could best describe Vermont by saying it looks like a painting.

I saw a moose, 6 art galleries, the Van Trap Family lodge, Smugglers Notch -my favorite, eggplant pasta, listened to 5 books of the new testament on IPOD, had my first cream burley which I loved, and took lots of mental photos.

We were in central to northern Vermont and nothing looked familiar to me, but maybe I in the past I went to southern Vermont or maybe I am living an entirely different life in my imagination. When I was younger we went to Disneyland and afterward I was trying to describe my favorite ride and no one knew what I was talking about and I couldn’t find any pictures of it in the Disneyland Book.

10/07/06

For several years now I have been preaching the beauty of Vermont in the fall. Recently it has been brought to my attention that I have never been to Vermont in the fall. So this weekend I am going to explore my imagination as my parents and I head through New Hampshire, Vermont, Upstate New York, and wherever else our vehicle takes us to embark on discovering the beauty of fall foliage.

10/02/06

So yesterday I measured one of my fallen beard hears and it was four inches long!

9/30/06

Wow, I don't know what to say I just spent some time reading online about why herbs are BAD. Fascinating, I love reading about things that are passionately argued from both sides with persuasive facts and unarguable evidence (somehow for and against). I love herbs such as garlic and ginger and greatly appreciate tea, I have heard so many positive things about these herbs yet this site tears them all apart. I would love for you to check it out and let me know what you think.

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9/29/06

We did not inherit the earth from our ancestors - We borrow it from our children

Our world has enough for each person's need, but not for his greed. - Mahatma Gandhi

The frog does not drink up the pond in which it lives. - Chinese Proverb

When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves. - David Orr

9/23/06

Well I took a few days off work and have been in upstate New York visiting with some good friends Phil and Rea. Phil was my roommate of over three years before I moved out East and he is visiting his girl friend Rea who is teaching ESL Bible at Houghton Academy in Houghton, New York. She graduated last year from Houghton College and Phil is transferring out to Houghton College in a few months.

9/17/06

Since my last post I have finished “The Art of Happiness” with the Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler and started and finished “A Walk Across America” by Peter Jenkins. Both of which were recommended by my cousin Ethan who is an amazing individual whose opinions I greatly respect and who introduced me to the wonderful world of barefoot travels after telling me of spending a year barefoot, even though I have only met my cousin a few times I am proud to be related to him and hope to get to know him more as the years go on. He is know engaged to me married in December. And just finished riding his motorcycle across the country to Alaska and back with a friend. I would encourage you to check out their site, Bowtie Tour they have some absolutely amazing photos.

9/05/06

I just finished the book “Things Fall Apart” by Acheb who was raised in Nigeria in one of the first Anglican missionary fronts. He now is a professor in the States.

Achebe does a wonderful job of explaining how tribal life was before colonialism and Christianity and how things changed with the coming of the white man, without having a biased opinion. He talks about the good and bad of tribal life before and after Christianity.

It did take me a while to get into and appreciate the book since the first half is setting the plot so you can better understand the changes that take place. It is a pretty quick and easy read and I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in learning more about the affect of colonialism.

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Its official my time in the cellular world is no more.

9/02/06

I am heading to a cabin in the woods for the extended weekend with brother-in-law, sis, baby, some friends, and the dogs. There is no electricity so we will have fun playing games to lantern or candle light.

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8/31/06

Hatred never ceases by hatred, but by love alone is healed, this is the ancient and eternal law.

~Buddha

8/30/06

Great News from BBC, Uganda begins ceasefire with LRA. I would encourage you to check out link and read article and articles on side margin. There are some real life terrible things that should not be ignored. And some very hard decisions about granting amnesty to leaders of LRA in hopes to have peace. The question is brought up about whether it is more important to have peace or to have justice.

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8/29/06

Well my amazing freespirited whimsical cousin flew away and now I will return to life with responsibilities of bedtime and showering.

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08/28/06

The other night my wonderful cousin Jessie and I made a tent in the living room and watched "Brother Sun, Sister Moon". Such a great movie with lots of inspiration to strip myself naked off all that I have and live as a homeless monk. The movie is about St. Francis, and I would recommend all to watch and feel free to smile.

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Whenever I associate with someone, may I think myself the lowest among all and hold the other supreme in the depth of my heart!...

When I see beings of wicked nature, pressed by violent sin and affliction, may I hold these rare ones dear as if I had found a precious treasure!...

When others, out of envy, treat me badly with abuse, slander and the like, may I suffer the defeat and offer the victory to others!...

When the one, whom I have benefited with great hope, hurts me very badly, may I behold him as my supreme Guru!

In short may I, directly and indirectly, offer benefit and happiness to all beings; may I secretly take upon myself the harm and suffering of all beings!...

Langre Thangpa ~ 11th century Tibetan saint

IT'S A BEAUTIFUL BABY GIRL!!!!!!!!!

My sister is no longer Prego she had a C-section and at 2:46 pm on July 9th Lillian Zoe Kuffel took her first breath of hospital air. She weighted 8.43 lbs and was 20.5 inches long. Both my sister and my niece are doing well. Thanks be to God

So I just decided to mix a can of black beans with cottage cheese, I was delighted with the outcome.