Freedom Dragon

Today I awoke to the sounds of airplanes. A huge carrier airplane came diving low over our house making rumblings and growlings that should have belonged to the belly of a great beast. In fact, I don't think it was an airplane but a great dark green dragon.

Today is Memorial Day. 

I come from a family that has many veterans. My grandfather, his father, and my great uncle all served in the wars of their generations. We have their flags folded in triangles on our wall.  

I am so thankful that we were blessed with their service and the service of thousands other brave men and women. They gave all for their country and we are free because of them. 

"But the freedom that they fought for, 

and the country grand they wrought for,
Is their monument to-day, and for aye." 

-Thomas Dunn English

Thank you, Veterans. You are my heros. May God bless and keep you safe. 

All my respectful and thankful enthusiasm, The Bursty Blogger. 

Boil and Bubble

Such a happy feeling has come over me. I am no longer bound by the chains of the crowded degradation that is high school! 

WOOOOO! I am a Graduate! 

So long you, sorry freshmen. I need to abandon you to your four year sentence because I am going to college land. Granted when I get to college-land I will be in new four year commitment and I will probably be crying a lot from loneliness but it will be cool. I'll be fine. 

You wanna know why I'll be fine? 

Because of this amazing graduation gift!! 

Yes, folks, it is a beautiful magical electric kettle that will spill out it's healing waters to keep me in denial about how much sleep I actually need. This baby will give me tea, oatmeal, those instant cup'o'noodly things, and more tea. Yay! 

Also from Mariel Evens was this beautiful handmade bracelet. 

I love my friends!

All my grateful enthusiasm, The Bursty Blogger.

Amelie and The Darling French

There was once a girl named Amelie. She and her story lived inside a green cased DVD on the shelf in my living room. I had heard of her but never stopped and got to know her. 

Last month I did, and we hit it off right away!

J'adore le film Amelie! C'est tres belle!


The movie Amelie is absolutely wonderful! 

Set in Paris, it tells the story of Amelie. She is an odd little thing with huge brown eyes and a love for the unusual. Having grown up with no friends she is solitary and is scared of talking to people. So when she sets out to bring happiness to the people around her she does it secretly and effectively. 
Stealing garden gnomes, terrorizing a mean boss, and describing the world to a blind man are all things she does to help people. All the while falling in love with a man equally as cooky as she.


The movie is vibrant. The colors feed your eyes gloriously, all the while making you feel completely french just by watching it. 

I want to be adventurous like Amelie. 


All my parisian enthusiasm, the Bursty Blogger.

The Problem With Books

Books rock my world!

One of my favorite things ever is secondhand book stores. Having walls of books around me is so comforting. When books are near, you are never truly alone.  

Writing takes creativity and imagination. Both those things are as much a part of you as your nose or your left eyeball, so writing a book is like taking your left eyeball and putting it on a shelf.. to... sell... thats gross. 
Can I re-do that?

 Thanks.

What I mean is that you put a bit of yourself onto the pages when you write a book, so bookstores are like huge social events. You are in a crowd of silent people until you choose someone to talk to. Thats why books are so glorious, reading them is like talking to someone. But they don't interrupt. They simply tell and stop when you want to think. 


The problem with books is that what is inside them is the imagination part of the author. No matter how wonderful and adventurous the story is you have to assume that life is not really like what the words say. Reading now has 'rules'. 


Don't believe that love is like that.
Love at first sight doesn't exsist. 
 Things like that don't happen in real life.
Fairies are imaginary.


Here is what I think:
Screw the rules. 

Books are magic. They transport you to another world, another mind, another way of life. Who says in that world fairies are not truth? Or in that mind love at first sight can't be real? Or in that life journeys and heros are not normal?
You can go anywhere with a book.

"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become."

-C.S. Lewis

We just have to trust Mr. Lewis when it comes to books. 

All my literature obsessed enthusiasm, The Bursty Blogger

Wild Thing

"You were once wild here, don't let them tame you."

-Isadora Duncan

What a wonderful notion. Never being tamed.

I feel as though everyone tries to tame everyone else to how they think or feel or do things.  Maybe in making someone else like you your mistakes don't feel so bad because someone else is making them too. Maybe it is simply because nobody wants to be alone. Maybe everyone wants to be right. 

In my short seventeen year experience, I have found the greatest joy in being with people who are not tamed by me and who do not try to tame me. We just live around one another comparing our words and deeds like precious papers. 

Thats what my friendships look like. 

All my untamed enthusiasm, The Bursty Blogger 

So Pinnie!

So there is this wonderful little website called Pintrest. I have joined and found that it is like miniature blogging! How delightful!! 

Here is my page. 

Follow!

All my pining enthusiasm, The Bursty Blogger

Living Well

I have always struggled with fear. It is a vice of mine. 

I would very much like to live a creative life, how about I work on loosing that fear first. 

All My Enthusiasm, The Bursty Blogger

Children of an Idle Brain

Every year at the end of school I like to go through my notebooks and find all the doodles I did.  Turns out Government class is a very conducive doodling environment. Hee hee!

 He is a superhero!

 This is Burl. She is a recurring character in my doodles.

Anna Lee is friends with Burl. 

THis guy is a rail road tycoon! 

I ended up destroying public property by drawing this on my desk.  It stayed there for quite some time.

One of my favorites :)

I think the only thing pertaining to the government I was supposed to be writing about on this page is the word 'Government' at the top. The rest is arrows, berries, and handsome actors names. This page says much about my brain. 

This guy reminds me of The Martian Chronicles. 

Those were my favorite randoms found among my pages. 

All my daydreaming enthusiasm, The Bursty Blogger