p.s. i leave for new zealand in almost 8 days. !!!!

   

i have a few books i need to SELL, and asap! i am leaving town on saturday early morning, so if you or anyone else you know would like to relieve me of these books, i'd love it!! most of them are moody books... i'll put what class i used them for. also, i'm selling each book for $5, unless otherwise specified. all are in good repair.

christian missions:
the changing face of world missions (pocock, rheenen, mcconnell)

either intro to counseling OR interpersonal minstry skills:
biblical concepts for christian counseling (kirwan)
soul talk (larry crabb)

public speaking:
how to speak to youth... and keep them awake (ken davis)
public speaking (duane liftin)

the church and its doctrines:
foundational faith (koessler)

educational foundations:
creative bible teaching (richards, bredfeldt)

college writing:
the college writer (vandermay, meyer, van rys, kemper, sebranek)

introduction to psychology:
exploring psychology, 6th edition (david g. meyers) - $10
study guide for exploring psychology

for funsies:
atlas of bible lands (hammond) - $3
harry potter and the goblet of fire (haha)


please contact me SOON and let me know if you want to buy them or not! if i don't know by friday morning, i am selling them to hastings. i have a final friday morning, so i'll be at school then, and all of these are stashed in my car. tell all your friends!

thanks,
sara

ok, so back in september when i got hit by the car on my bike, i had written a letter to editor of rocky mountain news in denver about sharing the road with bikers... partly for my sociology class, and partly because i was annoyed with cars being mean to bikers. i didn't ever hear back from them, so i figured i wasn't published (usually they have to get consent to edit anything).
ANYWAY, check this out: i was just online and googled my name... and it seems like rocky mountain news actually DID publish my article (about sharing the road with bikers) as one of their blogs online! pretty funny, huh? you have to have a look - some people commented and were really mean. but it's better than nothing...
it should entertain you... partly because of the way that i wrote (haha) and partly because of what people SAID.

go here:
http://blogs.rockymountainnews.com/speakout/2007/10/
then you'll have to scroll down a bit to find my article.

right now i am listening to sun kil moon, whom i love. they remind me of summertime when i was... maybe 17? and now they also remind me of being in the ceramics room after my classes at red rocks last semester. they are one of the calmest bands i know... listening to them kind of makes me go into a state of euphoria - it's like laying in the sun after a long winter. (ahem, it snowed again today!? IS SPRING EVER COMING!?!?!)

today was a thoroughly enjoyable day. i've found that since i've emptied myself lately of a lot of unneeded stress and worries, i've been feeling a lot more happy. this morning i went to church with my beloved roommate, tiff. it's so great to be reminded of what real community looks like - this place is one that does that. i got to relax a bit this afternoon and then gathered with some people for jo's birthday. morrocan food. yum. really overpriced, but yum.
i bought a bus ticket yesterday from auckland to wellington. i decided that when i fly into nz, i'm going to have a little short-lived, one day adventure in auckland. it will probably consist of mostly sleeping... but nonetheless, discovery in a new place. and you know, traveling is a lot easier when their mother tongue is your mother tongue. :)

ok, now i'm going to watch the royal tenenbaums... one of my favorite movies ever.
i guess i thought there might be more real ideas in this... but there isn't.
just a good day.... the semester is almost over and i am looking forward to...
nope, just looking forward.
at the end of this week i'll be packing, this time without looking for a place to store my stuff.
peace.


oh yeah:
happy birthday jonathan gonzalez and andrew nickerson.
it is both your birthdays now, and i haven't talked to either of you in literally years.

from "waking life"

"jars of springwater are not enough
anymore. take us down to the river!
the face of peace, the sun itself.
no more the slippery cloudlike moon.
give us one clear morning after another
and the one whose work remains unfinished,
who is our work as we diminish, idle
though occupied, empty, and open."


the kid across the street is learning how to ride a dirtbike right now. that’s so cute. i can see him from my bedroom window.
SO it’s the last month of my last semester in spokane. i feel like i just want it to be may 3rd already - i am pretty much aching to go. my heart actually hurts right now, because i miss so many beautiful people and places in denver. whoa dang. it’s funny, because for a while now, i kind of feel like i’ve been sleeping, but then i just started to feel like i was waking up last week. i hope this progression keeps moving forward.
ok... but i need to go for a walk before it gets too dark outside.
tonight i’m watching meg ryan movies with friends. that’s comforting.

peace.

can i just say that i don’t really want to stop moving?
i don’t know if i will ever stay in one place for more than a year... really.
i feel really restless most of the time, and i bother myself when i’m not involved in my community.
yesterday i went hiking with a couple friends, and on the way back, we stopped at the ywam base in the springs. it is so great to have been involved with an organization that is such an enormous family. they immediately started talking with us and sharing stories and invited us for dinner (which we declined). but i love that so much - it is good to be reminded that you are a part of a bigger.. something.
i’ve also been thinking a lot about what i will do after i graduate next year, and my ideas are all over the place, i feel. my latest thoughts have been juggling maybe moving to portland and getting my masters in sociology at psu, staffing with ywam for a while, or joining the peace corps.... hmmmm.
there are just too many options.

other thoughts:
1 - it is so weird to come into my old coffeehouse and NOT be making my own coffee
3 - i REALLY miss living in the castle right now. and my morgenstern
2 - did you know i’m going to new zealand this summer? i am buying my ticket in a couple days, i think...
and i will live here, in wellington:





i can’t wait. travel travel travel!
ok. i want to fix my bike now. goodbye.

happy spring break! (to those of you who already get to have that break.)

i am in denver and having a really wonderful time. on saturday, i drove 17 hours from spokane, washington, and got in at night... and i am staying for two weeks.
so far... i’ve gone on a little hike, seen a lot of good friends, and also met some really enjoyable new friends. it is also a relief to be blessed with awesome weather, no homework, the best coffee around, and excellent friends. i also really really missed scum of the earth church, and it was great to be back in that community again... if only for a little while.
oh, and i said i would say this: ryan horwath beat me at the rhyming game. i doubled and said "rain" twice. oops.
right now i am at common grounds, which is a coffeehouse where i used to work. i really love this place, and all of the people associated with it. i ran into a guy who i worked with for about a month after i started (then he left), and i talked to him for a bit about a couple different ideas in philosphy. he gave me a book to read on runes, and gave me a cd to listen to while i sleep. i think it was made at the brooks center arts - a place i really appreciate. he also told me how to make candles and gave me a clover and star. what fun little gifts. it was nice to run into him.
i feel like i am being really refreshed lately. maybe it’s just because spring is finally here, and the earth is going through a little transformation, but i feel like i am, too. i am starting to sense a connectedness to God that i’ve never experienced before, because it’s really different from all that i have seen and felt. i feel like i’m being woven into something that’s much bigger than everything i’m experiencing physically, and i cannot deny it at all. sometimes God’s sovereignty is something that i doubt a lot, but i figuring it out that i’m only doubting becaused it’s misunderstood by me. i feel like i’m making more of an effort to have peace in my heart and get a correct perspective of things happening around me.

here’s a little reminder for you: God is not going to leave us as orphans.
"If you love me, show it by doing what I’ve told you. I will talk to the Father, and he’ll provide you another Friend so that you will always have someone with you. This Friend is the Spirit of Truth. The godless world can’t take him in because it doesn’t have eyes to see him, doesn’t know what to look for. But you know him already because he has been staying with you, and will even be in you!

 "I will not leave you orphaned. I’m coming back. In just a little while the world will no longer see me, but you’re going to see me because I am alive and you’re about to come alive. At that moment you will know absolutely that I’m in my Father, and you’re in me, and I’m in you.

"The person who knows my commandments and keeps them, that’s who loves me. And the person who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and make myself plain to him." (john 14, the message)

that’s all i got for now. my heart is definitely happy in this beautiful place.
now, i’m going to go home and sew and read the fellowship of the ring.
-sara

ps. this cd i am listening to is absolutely incredible. i suggest you listen to it or buy it. oh! go to www.ruckus.com and download this music player. it’s all legal and i am really all about it right now.