Reading

Since my life is being swarmed with papers and reading assignments right now, I just thought I'd post on everything that I'm reading.





I'm also reading other various pieces from Christina Rosetti, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frederick Douglas, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lord Alfred Tennyson, and Robert Browning.

Pure Love

To be perfectly honest I haven't thought a lot about Valentines Day this year. I guess it has a lot to do with the fact that I don't have a Valentine and the fact that I've never had a Valentine. The day just doesn't hold any meaning. But I was in my yoga class today and we were talking about love and how really Valentines Day was just a day to celebrate charity--the pure love of Christ. As we went through our yoga practice my instructor kept on telling us that we need to open up more and love ourselves because only then we can love others as much as Christ loved them.

We need to give ourself permission to accept our faults and our weaknesses and to realize that we have them and love ourselves enough to work through them. We also need to recognize our strengths. And not just solely what strengths and weaknesses my body has as I know i can't quite move or stretch as other people can. It's also how balanced we are in our emotional, spiritual, and social lives. I need to give myself permission to love more freely and accept my weaknesses.

This is why I love yoga. I get to focus on what's good and bad about me, reflect on what I need to work on. I love that I feel so free afterwards--my body is limber and flexible and I can conquer the world. I get to focus on my relationship with others and my relationship with myself and my relationship with my Savior.

After class a girl then said that for this Valentines Day she was going to have Christ as her Valentine.

I think I'd like that too.

Swoon-Worthy

So I decided that I am very bad. In my British Literature class last week a girl gave a presentation on Emma (since it was the book we just finished) and showed a clip from the new 2009 Emma. Since she pulled it up on youtube, I saw that the entire four hour long movie was online. I wanted to go the library that very night and plug my headphones in and watch it, but I finished my George Herbert paper instead. Then I edited, studied for a test, did everything I was supposed to. But I watched it today. And I should have been working on my paper on Keats and Coleridge and the nature of a poet. No regrets though.
It was beautiful.



I do have to say that the men in this movie were especially swoon-worthy.
Mr. Knightly:




And Mr. Churchill


Did you notice that Frank Churchill was also Frederick Hale off of North and South?

I'll Follow You

I love this song. For some reason it reminds me of Tangled. Don't ask me why. I don't know. It just does.