Random thoughts – Page 3 – A Midsummer’s Blog

Our Laws Affect Our Culture

In a talk he gave at Wyoming Catholic College (WCC), Joshua Craddock posed the idea that law affects culture. His talk inspired me to write this short paper.

According to Rick Warren, “Law is downstream of culture. By the time you make a law about something, you’re reacting, not acting.” Rick Warren is saying that our culture directly affects our laws, and to believe otherwise would be foolish. However, what Warren misses in saying culture affects law, is that law also affects culture. While it is true that culture affects law, it is also true that law affects culture, changing how people view certain activities to the point that one could say culture is, as Warren says, ‘downstream’ of law.

why don’t you feel anything anymore?

Numb fills your heart, drowns your thoughts, seeps at your soul. Your homework lays upon your desk, unfinished. Your art scatters across the floor, abandoned. Your dinner sits, untouched.

Why don’t you feel anything anymore?

hold on

Sometimes, you think the fear will drive you mad. Then you remember, it already has. The voices in your head. They are part of you, down to the bone. They have been with you since your childhood, helping you know what to say, telling you stories.

the beginning of Astéri, light incarnate, goddess of the sun

Time fell in love with Chaos’s creation, Gi, and by and by she bore him twins —male and female. The girl shone bright as all the stars above in the Darkness, and was called Astéri. The boy was pale as the ghost of long forgotten gods, and was called Chlomós. The two grew together, inseparable from the womb. Closest to Gi, over her the two watched, jealously guarding the mother they loved so dearly.

unfinished ballad

In a land …
To close by for comforts hand
A soldier in a crown
Set forth across the foreign ground.

portal to pirates ocean

My fingers danced over the controller, fiddling with the stick and pressing buttons ferociously. “Ugh!” I sat back and ran my hand through my hair, knocking my cat-eared headphones onto my shoulders. The screen in front of me bore the ominous screen of death:

Game over: GameZero died. Restart? Or …Pay five-thousand silver to continue.

Groaning I checked the amount of silver I had. 7,000.

“One more try, then I’ll play somethin’ else.” I clicked the ‘pay five thousand to continue’ and grabbed my headphones to slide them back on.

Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness – a short note on the day

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”

With each passing Independence day, I see more and more signs simply saying ‘happy July 4th’ and wonder with each one … are we, as the people of this nation, forgetting the meaning behind why we celebrate July 4^th, or rather, why we celebrate Independence day?

Back to School

With school beginning in five days, it is time to insure you are fully ready to embrace the school year. The motto for notebooks, calculators, desks, and anything else school related is ‘when in doubt, decorate.’
Here are a handful of the notebooks I will be using during the coming semester:

Farewell, Adios, Goodbye

What is one of the hardest words in any language?

Goodbye.

Whether it is a goodbye for a short time or a long time, it is always hard. A friend says goodbye till tomorrow, and yet hesitates to go out the door. A husband leaves on a buisness trip for two weeks, but calls every night and hates the need for this goodbye. Again: a sibling leaves on a trip with some friends, but writes letters home and cries over the phone; the goodbye paining her heart and leaving her chest aching.

The Traveling Book

I have finally reached the stage of preparing for my trip where I pack the backpack.
I gather together the various assortments of things I must bring with me: sketch book, reading books, origami paper, etc.

When I begin to pack I find, in middle of the stack, a book with which I am well acquainted. Despite never having meant to put it in the stack it has ended up there, almost as if it had a mind of its own.