“Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.”

Kahlil Gibran

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God

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what if rosa parks had a car?

And here ____________ i will attempt to be Ç®¥p†ˆç

so that not even confusion will know

all i have dealt with

by opening these gifts

before hanukkah

(i mean christmas)

because sometimes all this insight

is a blessing

but sometimes it is the future's present

i wish had just stayed wrapped

ich eine berliner

Its just... uncomfortably hot right now. I have a heat rash from a wave of boredom and drowsiness which makes friday glaze by like an overfilled jelly donut. Squish squash sploosh.

life is copycatted.

like an over-checked watch

he strived to make what they created

in a video of understated

re-used innovated

patches of former meaning.

And it sold.

Even I could make two squares

stencil shapes

but Picasso spent 5 years

rendering Rembrant

and a lifetime to re-remember

the reality

of basic blobs.

we yearn

we wait

we watch

for the proof of time-tried innovation

and sometimes we are fooled.

No crib for a bed.

There was never room for Jesus.
He came into the world in leftover hay
and who would have thought that just a baby

could break into the (un)stables of our hearts?

There was never room for Jesus.
But thank God He made room for us.

thank God for finals!

At the end of the day, I truly have to thank God that I have somehow been given the privilege of taking my 4th set of university level final exams.

Yes, fellow college students, it is a privilege.

While we are anxiously typing away on our Macbook Pros, sitting in well-heated, well-lit rooms with an endless supply of tea, the latest hipster music, fighting the impulse to check facebook and praying to make a passable grade in a 5 credit class, there are millions of people in the world whose prayer this evening is that they can live one more day just to support their child. That they can find food in the next dumpster. That they won't get raped tonight. That the rebel forces wont attack their village. Hoping against hope they don't lose their job. Wishing upon a star for a loving family. Crying to the Father for protection against an addiction. Screaming the pain of endless depression.

Yes, our brains have been stretched. But we need to stretch our paradigms too, and realize that

We are the lucky few.

Never stop celebrating the gift of higher education. It is a blessing that many cannot even fathom.