and i could see for miles and miles and miles.

i love:
music.
the office. playing guitar until i can't move my hands. learning new songs. reading. comfortable places. libraries. books. food. writing. people. being happy. traveling. being myself. clothing. the lord of the rings. narnia. the hobbit. going places. exploring. woods. trees. nature. animals. coffee. tea. toms. converse. children. pillows. the us. the world. maps. old things. new things.
god.
the bible.
faith. hope. love.

about

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Coon creek beach cave, California on Flickr.

england.

England is not America. This is an obvious statement, but it bears repeating sometimes. However, we speak the same language, and I have been told repeatedly by separate individuals that I fit in here superbly. Although I have only been here for three weeks, I concur with their observation. This feels like the country of my soul’s origins (however, I have not been to Ireland yet, and I may have to change that statement after I visit there).

Everyone keeps asking me if I’m homesick, and I reply honestly that I’m not. There is nowhere I’d rather be than here. But I am friendsick—I wish I could pay for tickets for certain people to hop on planes and join me over here. I have made (and am making) wonderful relationships with fantastic people from far-away lands, and I am certainly not lacking in good, fulfilling companionship. But I will never take for granted the company of those with whom I share inside jokes and deep connections. There is so much here that I wish I could wonder at and explore with the people who are my companions for most of the year. Summer is both a beautiful and a cruel time, because, while I am free (typically) from the constraints of school and schedule, I am separated from the friends who I enjoy spending time with the most. But I suppose long separations make for the best reunions. August will be a marvelous month.

❝

A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered.

━ C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet

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Little Skellig, County Kerry, Ireland (by Vincent Besanceney)

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The Golden Horn at Galatea in Constantinople, now modern-day Istanbul.
Photograph by Jules Gervais Courtellemont, National Geographic

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Friends gather around a summer campfire at Great Point Lighthouse on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, June 1970.
Photograph by James L. Stanfield, National Geographic