This Is Kristin

Todd is talking about Darfur, and what we can do to help.

I get this weekly e mail from a organizing web site, and the reason I signed up for it was because the title was, “Don’t have time to organize? Subscribe to this newsletter to get quick and easy organizing tips!” So I did. I get the e mails every week, and I have yet to read through an entire e mail, due to their massive length (they give about 20 steps to declutter your whatever), and now those e mails are all jumbled in my e mail folder, saved to be read and organized later.

~He’s 7 months old. He can sit up, he smiles, he can roll, he’s trying to wave, he hugs, he can’t say “no” yet, he likes to eat any squished veggie or fruit, he’s ticklish, he melts my heart.

Today’s blogger is William Guice talking about an organization called Kiva.

“Weakness can take the form of strength
Like insecurity takes the form of pride
The setting sun can take the form
Of a full moon on the rise
Sand can carry out to sea
Evidence of transgressions like sandal tracks
But never has there been a wave
That could carry away the past
A tongue can take the form of a knife
Like manipulation masquerades as care
A pointed phrase can bleed the heart dry
Faster than truth becomes a dare
Sand can coat the wound
And dry the blood of severed things
But never has there been a grain
That could sugarcoat the sting”

Corrigan

Valerie blogging about global warming today, and sharing her experiences during the hurricane Katrina.

It’s taken me forever to update my link list, and I have more to add, but here are a few new ones to start with…

~Kevin D. is a friend of ours from high school. He’s incredibly talented artistically, and his blog shows his creativeness. Hopefully he’ll publish some of his beautiful ambient music soon, because it’s good.

~Amy (Kevin D’s girl) has a blog of unique pictures. It’s short and sweet, simple and enjoyable.

~Brian is a neighbor, friend, and going through the process of adoption. Read along their journey.

Fancypants is starting a series of posts about learning more about Catholicism, which should be very interesting.

(This is the random part.) I realized that my view of the Catholic religion, is very mysterious (and un- educated), and I feel it’s due to my only experiences with Catholic churches, and catholic people. Here they are:

~As a kid, at the catholic church down town, there was a vision of the Virgin Mary holding baby Jesus. My mom took me out of school, and we stood in line all day to see this eery blue outline of a woman on the wall.

~My mom made my friend and I go to a Catholic “manners” school one summer.

~While in Spain for 9 months, I attended Mass, which was in Latin and Spanish. Upon the first visit I passed out in the pew, and woke up upside down with three people standing over me speaking spanish rapidly.

~Also, while in Spain I visited a convent in Segovia. The young nuns took me on a tour, and showed me a tree with three separate trunks, which were all growing intertwined. They said this symbolized the trinity to them. I bought some marzipan from them.

~My friends sister moved to Portugal to become a nun.

~I worked at a dry cleaners and cleaned the local priests robes.

~I saw the “Da vinci code.”

~In London, I visited the Westminster Cathedral and experienced a beautiful moment that is stained in my memory. I had gone in there to get out of the cold of the evening, and was walking down the corridors alone. A choir was practicing in a back room, and the sound echoed down the halls. Candles were lit along the way, and I walked through, hearing each of my footsteps, and tracing my hand upon the walls. It truly felt like a sanctuary……sigh……good times….

….See I told you it was random and un educated. I look forward to learning along with Fancypants

~Susanne is today’s blogger, who is talking about an organization called Bulgaria child.

Here is a fun, easy, and cheap craft to do to your kids, (or yours) bike today.

~We are going to play today, have a “bar b que” (as we would say) or “grill out” (as others would say), and shoot off some fireworks. Aiden has already informed me, that he “can’t like fireworks,” so I hope he doesn’t get too scared.

~What are you doing today to celebrate the 4th of July?