everlasting light

I'm getting married!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And just in case you might be wondering why i am marrying this young gentlemen,

or if you just don't know him that well, then i offer you...
and introduction to mr. champlin- the boy i'm going to marry and/or-
a brief explanation of some of the reasons i want to be with him everywhere:
::ahem::

#1 Crazy Smart: I have yet to ever bring up a topic that he doesn't know something interesting about.
(early in our courtship i thought i would stump him with
poets or books or theatre references- but not this kid. And when I called him excited from El Salvador after going to a zoo (for the first time in my life), i exclaimed, "elephants have eye lashes!" but he already knew, and told me a lot more about elephants. This is how lots of conversations roll.

He is so smart it's impossible for him to be boring. ever.

#2 Art: One time he made these sticker that really cracked me up.

#3. He is consistently doing things that crack me up.
And let's be real- funny does for me what Angelina Jolie does for most guys.

#4 When he cracks up he gets these really adorable lines in his cheeks (which have a beard on them-which i love) and around his eyes (which are blue-which i love), and his head bobs. its seriously awesome.

#5 He's into lots things which are awesome

# 6 He read the complete works of Shakespeare when he was a little kid (who does that?)

#7 He is skilled at the art of nightmare jokes
(nightmare jokes, incaseyoudon'tknow, are what he tells me when i wake up/call him in the middle of the night from a bad nightmare.. my favorite 3:00am nightmare joke involved Tom Cruise-you'll have to get him to tell it).

#8 He has a heart of gold. I cant really explain this one.. its incredible.

THE most selfless person i have ever, ever met.
he cares about the world. he wants to make it better.

even at his brokest he finds ways to send money to Sendai or buy a crochet hat from a woman in Africa.
he delivers flowers.

#Lastly (and this is by no means a comprehensive list) he is patient.
after two and a half years of on again-off again- up and down/all over the place dating, i nearly smashed both of our hearts to bits
(and i am positive i smashed some feelings of other innocent kind people as well, and to you people-- i don't know how to say i am sorry. you are not required to ever forgive me although i would really like that)

BUT he was patient, and kind and has always assured me that he would never give up on me.

I realize to some- this engagement may have seem to have come on fast and to those

I close with the immortal words of Harry

(of the classic cinematic treat When Harry met Sally-duh)
"when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with someone,

you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible"

eyes on the prize. mind on you.

everything i've learned- i have forgotten
everything i've forgotten is just like new

to be with you.

The Honey Trees - To Be With You (Official Video) from Simon Filip on Vimeo.

electrick children

Really, Seriously... This feature film (by becca thomas) is going to be so good!

I couldn't possibly be more excited that Becca asked me to be involved!

Please, loves-- donate some money.. a-lot-a-bit or a little bit. It will be worth it!

Donate & Find Out More Info. about the feature film here

salinger

he writes stuff like that.. the simplest things in the world..

and yet, no one else has ever said them like that.

i will always love him.

(quote from a short story called A Girl I Knew)

books are the new college

"He didn't tell them what he now privately believed: that Josef was one of those unfortunate boys who become escape artists not to prove the superior machinery of their bodies against outlandish contrivances and the laws of physics, but for dangerously metaphorical reasons. Such men feel imprisoned by invisible chains- walled in, sewn up in layers of batting. For them, the final auto liberation was all to foreseeable. Kornblum was, nevertheless, unable to resist offering up that final criticism to his erstwhile pupil on his performance that night. "Never worry about what you are escaping from," he said. "Reserve your anxieties for what you are escaping to."
-The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon

"We have waged war, or rather let a war be waged, against all of the animals we eat. The war is new and has a name: factory farming. Like pornography, factory farming is hard to define but easy to identify."
-Eating Animals, Jonathan Safran Foer

"There are times we demand an explanation when an explanation really isn't possible"
-Blink, Malcom Gladwell

"Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor."
-City of Thieves, David Benioff

the morning after the rapture