bed

For you go to bed.

And you pull those sheets over your head.

Are you satisfied?

Has your soul died?

Are you feeling empty?

It’s easy to live a day and not embrace grace.

The day is done.

The night is spent.

And where has your time went?

Did you spend money for your own favor?

Or did you bless with your labor?

Are you living for yourself?

It’s easy to not cherish what will perish.

You stretch yourself out to get your needs met.

Your needs are met in one.

What have you become?

You’ll see you were wrong.

You’ll cease singing your song.

And maybe you’ll change.

Obligation to Humanity

I have an obligation to the earth.

To humanity.

To you.

And I must share what is put on my heart.

My tongue.

My lips.

My pen.

For it is a poison to keep something to be shared within.

It is an indoor air quality hazard.

“There is a pertinent reason I am on this earth.”

I must share.

I must share.

I will share.

Crusade and Consciousness

First we must understand the big elephant in the room before we try to move it out of the room.

Recognize.

Understand.

Contemplate.

Have a consciouness.

Be awake.

Observe.

Absorb all that is around you.

Then gird up your lions.

Attack.

And change it.

But first notice what needs to be changed within.

Then crusade.

Charity and Hope visit my place!

So Charity and Hope are at my apartment in Warren College right now.

Charity is to my left. She is typing on her laptop. She is currently surrounded by a mixture of watermelon in a bowl, plates from various food entrees, cookie crumbs and leftovers on a plate, vegan cookie wrappers, a calculus book, Subway leftovers, two water bottles, an unopened herbal popcorn bag, and some notebooks and other things academia (mmmmm!)

Hope is to my right, all laid out and ready for a nap. She likes to sing with the music I'm playing every now and then. We are listening to Karen O and the Kids (Where the Wild Things Are soundtrack). She looks really cute when she sleeps :)

Tonight I made a run to Earl's Place and bought 6 different kinds of vegan cookies and organic Himalayan Green Tea (yum!) Tonight our chosen prey was Phenomenal Pumpkin Spice, Coconut Macaroon, and Double Chocolate Decadence. The girls ate it with some good ol OJ while I had some tea. Talk about delicious!

I love you girls!

Til next time,

Jessica

New Job

So I have recently become a member of Housing, Dining, and Hospitality at UCSD working as an EcoNaut. We will be posting blogs weekly and would love for you to check them out and become a follower. Thanks! and here's the link:

http://ucsdlivingoncampus.blogspot.com/

-JessB.

My sister is leaving today.

She visited us from Petaluma for eight days! It has been such a pleasure since I haven't seen her in months. She has really blessed me while she has been here.. she came to my graduation.. organized a graduation party.. invited people to my party.. cooked food for my party.. found a dress and did my hair for my graduation.. cooked me vegan lemon bars.. so much more! I feel she came at just a perfect time, I don't know what I would have done without her.

Love you Steph!

-Jessica

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Yann Martel

Yann Martel is a fabulous author. I have been reading his book Life of Pi for some time now, I am yet to finish, but I still feel so connected to it. I am fascinated by his need for accuracy in word-usage, in order to clearly portray meaning. Read what he says in an interview:

AVC: Life Of Pi begins with a fictional account of how somebody in India told you this story, claiming it would make you believe in God. Did the decision to begin the book that way come out of this desire to raise the question of truth vs. fiction?

YM: Well, only part of it is fiction. It's mostly, factually true. I was in India, I was working on a novel set in Portugal, I did meet a man named Mr. Adirubasamy, I am thankful to the Canada Council for the Arts. You're asking me the question everybody asks me, under the guise of asking about the introduction: You're asking me whether the book is true. You know, truth is a nebulous thing. There are certain, definite truths, but the truth of our lives goes far beyond facts. Life is an interpretation of a series of facts, and that interpretation is really what life is about. So the division between non-fiction and fiction has a certain logic, but it's a very limited one. And by and large, it isn't helpful.

I meet a number of people as a writer of fiction who say "Oh, I don't read much fiction," as if the history of the United States, just as an example, isn't an exercise in storytelling and myth-making. You know, the history of the United States is not just a series of flat facts: "George Washington was the first president. John Adams was the second." That's not it. The history of the United States fleshes those out in ways that are necessarily ways of storytelling. And any good novel is true in the sense that it's emotionally true, psychologically true, aesthetically true, and factually true, and when they aren't, it's because they are spiritually true. Take George Orwell's Animal Farm. It was totally true to Soviet Russia under Stalin, it captures the essence of what happened there. But it's not only not true as it relates to Russian history, it isn't even true to the way farms operate in England. But it's absolutely true to that human event called Stalinism in Russia. So this thing of "Is it true? Is it not?", I think people are basically asking if it's factually true, which has its validity if you are some scientist, if you're a logician, if you're a technician. But existentially, it is quite limited. And I'm not saying that just to obfuscate. I can tell you right now what was factually true or not throughout the book. But I think once you have those answers, it tends to reduce the story instead of making it something greater. And that attitude, expressed constantly, reduces life. And we get a whole series of people, the alienated people of the West, who having reduced and scoured anything marvelous about it, are finally left with nothing.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/yann-martel,14166/

He later goes on to say that Christians are one of the main groups of faith that have not been as accepting of the book because, he writes, they don't read fiction. He says the Bible is enough for them. Let us not be close-minded. Let us not be intolerant. Let us not be ignorant. Those are not pleasing characteristics. There are amazing things authors have to share with the world. They may not come from our way of thinking or even the same faith, but they have something beautiful to share with the world. G-d is not exclusive in His love.

Gloria Dolis

Today I got an email confirmation of sponsoring Gloria in Mozambique. Excited for years of love to come.

-Jessica

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