Keep the blue side up

8
May
4
Mar

What you are doing today is important, because you are exchanging a day of your life for it.

21
Feb

In order to be guided in life’s journey, we must have a “hearing ear” and a “seeing eye,” both directed upward. We must act on the direction we receive. We must look up and step up. And as we do, I know we will cheer up, for God wants us to be happy.

Carl B. Cook
7
Feb

Have you ever been sitting somewhere, life moving all around you, and in that moment you are completely aware? You can see the pieces of who you were yesterday falling to the ground as today begins to fill in the holes and all you can manage to do is sit there and watch it dissolve. And as much as you know you need to get up, to start assimilating, you find yourself repeating under your breath, ‘How did I get here? How is this my life?’

The Descendants
31
Jan
“Life’s too short to spend time thinking about life. Let’s just live it.”

“Life’s too short to spend time thinking about life. Let’s just live it.”

29
Jan
“I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it.” “Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bull-fighters.”~Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises Only a handful of very extraordinary people will be bullfighters. The rest of us have to accept that we never will. The trick is learning to live with that knowledge.

“I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it.”

“Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bull-fighters.”
~Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

Only a handful of very extraordinary people will be bullfighters. The rest of us have to accept that we never will. The trick is learning to live with that knowledge.

23
Dec
Advice from the Cupcake I visited my little mom in the nursing home and asked her if she had advice for my daughter Hannah, who will be a missionary in Korea, my daughter Skyler, who just graduated from college, and my son Dane, who is studying screenwriting in NYC. “Let me think,” she said, as she lifted her chin and narrowed her eyes, Yoda-style. “Yes. Tell them: jump in with all four, and then figure it out as you figure it out.” Then she added, “And don’t miss the first jump. Some people wait and wait and wait, and then it’s over.” BAM. She may weigh 90 pounds and be a prisoner in her own body, but she’s still got it. Great advice.

Advice from the Cupcake

I visited my little mom in the nursing home and asked her if she had advice for my daughter Hannah, who will be a missionary in Korea, my daughter Skyler, who just graduated from college, and my son Dane, who is studying screenwriting in NYC.

“Let me think,” she said, as she lifted her chin and narrowed her eyes, Yoda-style. “Yes. Tell them: jump in with all four, and then figure it out as you figure it out.” Then she added, “And don’t miss the first jump. Some people wait and wait and wait, and then it’s over.”

BAM. She may weigh 90 pounds and be a prisoner in her own body, but she’s still got it. Great advice.

13
Aug

In sixty short years, South Korea went from being one of the poorest countries in Asia to having the world’s 13th largest economy. Korean students have some of the highest test scores in the world, and a higher rate of acceptance into American Ivy Leagues than any other foreign country.

So. What’s life like for a Korean student? Our documentary will take a look at the lives of five Korean teenagers on the verge of either reaching- or losing- their dreams. The film will follow the students during the most stressful time of their lives- their last year of high school. After studying for roughly sixteen hours each day, their futures boil down to one last exam. On November 10th, 2011, thousands of high school seniors will take a nine-hour test that for many, will determine their economic and social status for the rest of their lives.

(Source: koreanhighschool.com)