Words

Y'all ever think about words?

Are there words you know the exact moment you learned what they meant and how to use them?

For example, I remember the exact moment I heard the word "fail" and what it meant in the context of a class. I was in the kitchen with my mom and maybe another sibling or two when my oldest brother came in and told my mom about a class he just got the grades for. He said he "failed" it. I had never heard that before and didn't know what it meant until then.

Another word I remember learning: finale. I learned the meaning of that word in the context of the 4th of July. The last set of fireworks was always the "grand finale" and I didn't know what that meant except in that context.

Or have you ever thought about how many words we have for certain things?

For example, how many words are there that mean hate?
hate, detest, abominate, abhor, loathe, etc. Now those all mean the same and you basically can use them interchangeably no matter what or who you are talking about.

What about love? How many words mean love?
admire, adulate, delight in, dote on, esteem, exalt, etc. BUT....you wouldn't interchange those depending on the person or thing you were talking about. They don't all really mean love to us. Think about it.

You don't love your dog the same way you love your ham and cheese sandwich. You don't love your child the same way you love your favorite book...and yet we use the word love for those things. You might say "I delight in this sunshine" (you would sound weird but it would make sense to people) but you wouldn't say "I delight in you"...it just isn't the same as "I love you".

So fascinating to me....and to think I hated Linguistic Anthropology...

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Hours of entertainment for basically free

but i promise it is inside of me forever

Have you ever wanted to create something. You just feel this thing in your head, in your mind, in your soul, in your heart, in your consciousness? You feel it growing and becoming something that you want to create and put out there.

You want to give life to this thing through your words maybe? Or your paints and canvas, or your violin. You just feel it. It needs to be created. It needs life.

I feel that. I feel it lately. I want this thing to be the first if it's kind. I want people to be stunned and touched by this thing. I want it to be unlike anything anyone has ever come in contact with.

I want this thing to make people feel like they've known it their entire existence, premortal life and all. It's so comfortable and familiar to them like that person's hug you will never forget or refuse.

Like when you say:
"Thursday? Thursday is neutral. Its broccoli, 8, 9, traffic lights, and grey that are boys"
And the person either goes:
"I KNOW! That is what I'm saying!
or:
"Um....you realize those are all inanimate or intangible things right?"

When this thing gets out I want it to bring mortals to their lives as angels and I want it to bring angels to their lives as mortals. I want it to testify of all things true.
I want it to bring tears. Whatever kind of tears come. I want happiness and sadness and all the heartfelt emotions that look like a rainbow. 

I want it to remind them of their dog growing up. And I want them to think of all the times they've traveled down that road. I want them to feel every ounce of love that has ever been given or received. 
I want this thing to consume all

I'm not sure if this thing will ever gain life outside of me.


but i promise it is inside of me forever

Monday January 21, 2013

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day! Its incredible what that man did and also what many others did. I find it astounding and admirable and impressive. He fought for right over his own safety and comfort. Good stuff.


This is also good stuff. Enjoy!

Every time I hear his voice I get goosebumps...

Who do you think I'm talking about?

I'll start from the beginning.
Back problems. They're the junk. SUPER AWESOME. Yeah! *notreallythatwascompletebullshit* Sorry for the profanity...today just wasn't too good. So my back hurt yesterday (from past injury I won't get into here) but by the time I went to lacrosse it was feeling alright. (My stomach on the other hand is a whole 'nother story) I thought I was good, working out the issues in my back and I'd be fine.

WRONG-O. I got back from practice and my back was feeling none too agreeable.

So I stretched and heated and iced and all that jazz (Stupid me forgot that a thing called advil exists...cool) But I still was woken up by the pain in my lower back. AWESOME. No change this morning when I got up. So I got out of bed for like 45 minutes to eat breakfast read some Alma, ice and heat some more. Yeah...the whole out of bed thing wasn't working for me.

SO back to bed I went. I was bed ridden today. I got up to go to the bathroom, eat, get ice/heat, and that's pretty much it. I literally have been out of bed for maybe 2 hours today. Because it just hurt too badly to stand..........and be all vertical and stuff....gravity is pretty freaking mean to me.

SO ANYWAY...back to the voice thing. Naturally I spent a junk ton of time on my computer on the Internet...lots of Pinterest and Youtube and Netflix. So I meandered from show to show on Netflix until I came upon Bloomberg Game Changers J.K. Rowling Revealed. Since I love me some HP I hooked that shiz up. (haha being bed ridden has muddled my brain)

I watched it and it featured Jim Dale who reads the HP series. GOSH I LOVE THAT MAN. I seriously just die every time I hear him. It takes me back to the car rides where we would put in the tape and listen to HP. He is sOOOOoooOoOoooOOooO good. Goosebumps I say!


Check this out:

In case you actually looked at that, I'll tell you why I love Stephen Fry as well.

Reasons Kylee Loves Stephen Fry:

1. This
2. Jeeves and Wooster
3. Sherlock Holmes

I could go on...but I think that will do. 

Wow this post is all over the place. Eh...whatcha gunna do? I'll try and not post next time I'm bed ridden and unable to stand up for fear of being consumed by blindingly awful pain.


And on that note, I bid you adieu! 

How on earth did I get here?

Sheesh....I have never taken an acting class or done anything really that requires me to get up in front of people and do stuff as they watch...unless you count sports...which I don't.

Anyway. I FREAKING LOVE IT. IT IS SO MUCH FUN. Every class I get scared out of my mind and wonder what I am doing there. I LOVE IT. I just seriously don't even know.

Today we did our first improv thing. WOWOWOWOW. HAHA so great.

It is called family portraits. We were split into three groups of 6 or 7 and she would call a group on stage where she would then name a family of _____ (fill in blank).
She did:

• Cowboys (how apropo)
• Kardashians
• Tigers
• Gods/Goddesses
• T-rexes
• Clowns
• Hippies
• Ninjas

Etc....SO she called out a family of...and you/your group had to strike a pose representing said family and then someone would yell freeze and they would "take" the family portrait.

She gave this whole schpeel at the beginning telling us that acting is not thinking and that you should just go on instincts. Just let it out and do it.

That is what I did. And golly its great. Since I don't really care what people think of me I think I have the potential to kick trash at this. I just need to start talking I guess.

Spring Semester

Oh Spring Semester. How much better than fall can you get??

In the fall everything is getting darker, dying, getting colder. In the spring everything is getting lighter, coming back to life, getting warmer. And maybe its just coincidence but the classes I take in the spring have been better than those in the fall.


Here is what I am taking and the books:

Seminar: Food, Culture, Nutrition

Dancing Skeletons

Fat
Origins of State (*snore*)

Myths of the Archaic State

Comparative Archaeology of Complex Society

Intro to Research Methods

Beginning Acting

Language and Racism

Loaded Words

Everyday Language of White Racism

English with an Accent

Nigger


I think it'll be a splendid semester.

Here is a little something something

Scroll down to see the girl doing the...
 pants dance


no it isn't me....but I will do this one day.

Breakfast shake: an update

For part one see here
After taking it to friends houses, hot water, cold water, banging it on the counter, etc.... I had no luck with the blender top....sooooooo


I took it to the police station right across the street from my apartment and told the nice lady behind the glass "Honestly, I just need someone to help me open my blender" after she asked what she could do for me.

So I waited in the lobby of the police station while she got a strong po po to help me. He came out and opened my blender for me!!

In all of the people who tried to open it's defense - he struggled a little bit....just a little, but at least he didn't just look at it and it opened of its own accord...


Anyway....police are friends in times of need. (Like when you can't have your wonderful breakfast cause you can't open it)

GRRRRRRRR

So, here I am. I made myself a wonderful breakfast shake with my new blender I got from christmas.

I made it a little before 10:00 this morning. I still haven't enjoyed it.........


CAUSE I CAN'T OPEN THE FREAKING LID. UGHHHHHH


What do women do who live alone and are not strong enough to open junk by themselves?? My gosh.




WHAT DO I DOO??? ALL I WANT IS BREAKFAST!!!!

General Conference - Intermission

So maybe some of y'all have noticed I haven't done a conference talk in a while.

Well that is because I am reading the Collected Works of Hugh Nibley.

So I am only on the first book, but I only have 5 of them so far...but it still  might be a few months before I start the conference talks again.

I want to focus on the things I am reading and get the most out of them that I can so I chose not to keep doing conference talks as well as Hugh Nibleys books.

I still think y'all should keep checking out those conference talks!!

They are marvelous.


Happy Thursday!

Tombstone

Have y'all ever thought about what you want on your tombstones?

Like

"Wonderful mother, sister, aunt, daughter, grandma"....blah blah

Or

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time"
Mark Twain

Or

"Loving father, son, uncle, brother, cowboy"...etc etc

 Or

"Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid"
-Langston Hughes


My brother and I always joke that we will be buried next to each other and his would say:
"I'm with stupid ----->"

and mine would be next to his and say:
"I'm stupid"
or maybe
"<----- this guy died of stupid"

or something like that...anyway. You get the point.


What do you imagine on your tombstone?

Dear 2013 - A Letter

Dear year 2013,

You are brand new. You have just been born. Hardly even 24 hours old. And this time is precious. You don't know much about anyone yet but I think you'll learn a lot over the next 12 months.

My plans for you are tremendous, requiring a lot of work on both our parts. I plan to make you the best year yet. That won't be easy since my senior year of high school was brilliant and I think 2012 may have even beat that with its adventures and schools and friends and food and jobs.

This year you, 2013, have my favorite number, 13. This is a good omen for me. This is my year. My number. I will do new things. Things I have never done before. I will meet new people. I will dance new dances and sing new songs. I will wear new clothes and maybe cut my hair. I will read new books and maybe see a new movie or two. I will have new experiences and make new memories to create something new out of the old, 2012, me.

2013, you will only be around for 365 days so you must be all you can be in that very short time. As your name suggests, you have many fore-bearers and each one gave something to every person who lived through them. Likewise, you will have many follow in your footsteps. You have endless opportunities before you. You can contribute in so many ways.

You represent newness and a bright open sky. A sky of my favorite pink, purple, and blue that suggests to people that they can throw off the old, the outdated, the heaviness, and the things that drag them down. You are a time for people to lose that weight, to make that commitment, to get that 4.0, adopt that child, make that leap of faith that will change their 2014 and 2015 and 2016. 2013, stay unbarred and unblocked for all those people for as long as you can.

2013 I know it is a lot to ask of you, but I believe it can happen. If you can, bring more peace than conflict. If you can bring more joy than grief. If you can, bring more love than hate. If you can, bring more pleasure than pain. If you can, bring more smiles than frowns.  If you can, bring more selflessness than selfishness. If you can, bring more light than dark. If you can, bring more hope than despair. If you can, bring more marriage than divorce. If you can, bring more prosperity than poverty. I believe in you 2013. I really, really do.

Now, I know there will be disappointment in the next 52 weeks, but why bother with that now when the sky is my favorite pink, purple, and blue? I know there will be some tears of sadness but why worry about that when the door is wide open?

I pray for you 2013. I give you my blessing and look forward to the next year you will be with us.
Sincerely,

Kylee Ann Snuffer