Sunlight

Today was an absolutely glorious day. It was truly beautiful.

Today the sun traveled through the sky. As it did so, its beams illuminated bits of nature.

Leaves were glowing and beaming their color as the sun radiated behind them. Spiderweb silk twinkled as the light gleamed over it. Trees seemed a thousand times more majestic because of the absolutely lovely sunlight. I can hardly even find all the words, but it was amazing. Throughout the day new things kept showing themselves in ways they rarely seem to; the big tree across the street, the changing leaves, and the especially blue sky were so full of color and wonder. A picture's worth a thousand words; I just really need to show you :). I don't think the colors don't come out as bright on my blog as they are in actuality, but ah well!

Today reminded me of a quote by C.S. Lewis. I'd seen it at least twice before. When I recalled the general idea of the quote, it helped me to realize more how amazing God is.

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it."

Senior Thesis

Hello again!

Clarification of my last post - I realized sometime after writing that I might've sounded like I was bashing my Omnibus class or something. However, though I struggle with the reading sometimes, I do enjoy a lot of things about that class; I like discussions we have. I also enjoy writing (as you may have guessed!). And in that class, I get to write!

Speaking of which, I'm excited for my senior thesis paper. The dreaded thesis paper that Granite seniors have to write. Wow, those last two sentences were basically equivalent. Anyways, that mass assignment always seems to loom over everyone as thy approach their senior year. But we actually have a lot of freedom in it, and I'm looking forward to it!

We must to pick a controversial topic of our age and write an approximately 15-25 page paper, in which we decide a stance on some aspect of that topic and argue it. That instruction alone gives us lots of choices. It's not too hard to find an issue that means something to you. AN issue meaning enough that you might... actually... make it PAST the required page number? Perhaps! Besides that freedom, we can also do this paper in nearly limitless ways.

Personally, I am (right now, at least) planning to write a story about the foster care system. I'm hoping to incorporate photography into my story.

But that wasn't what I was actually planning to write about. I was going to write about the little kids that I love. But you know what? There are just too many of them for one post. So perhaps I'll begin that tomorrow!

Time

Lately my mind has been swirling with thoughts. They often tend to come at very bad times, such as when I'm trying to read my Omnibus material. As soon as I try to focus on those readings that I'd honestly rather not be focusing on, a million things seem to pop up in my head.

Memories from random times throughout my life come to mind, experiences I wish to experience again (not because I want to change them, but because I miss them), and sometimes ideas that I wish had happened during the time I've had. I've had SO many amazing experiences, though, in my life. I've had hundreds of opportunities to go places, experience events, be in plays, go to Mexico, camp, and many other smaller places. The zoo, the aquarium, visiting a college, being in a ballet class, seeing a movie in 3D. I'm blessed to live where I do; we sure get to do a lot of things around here. There are tons of opportunities for homeschoolers, along with nearly any subject you can imagine.

Anyways, sometimes I think about how I don't want this year to end. I suppose it did just start, but since it's my last year of high school, the end seems all too near. I felt that way when we were at the beach for a week; I waited so long to get there, but when we got there, the days started slipping away. They were full of amazing friends and everything that comes with them, but a week can only last so long. Time flies when you're having fun. And so, by the second or third day, I was fearing the end.

One of my teachers told us multiple times in the beginning of school that the end of the year is tomorrow. And hey... it's already been more than a month of school. Didn't we just start? At the same time, a good bit has happened and changed since then, and I'm glad of that. But now there's just November, December, January... February, March. April. Our last day is May 5. Wait a second, isn't that only six months???

The point of this post wasn't to get all sad about the end! Not yet.

So. This is... the beginning of the end, I guess :). Okay.

There are so many things I'm excited for in these next six months. Maybe I'll tell you all about them sometime...

In the meantime, I should get off the computer. I reeeeeally don't want to waste the time I have this year on Facebook. Ha. So that's something to work on. I do think that blogging and my photography are worthy uses of computer time. though! Hopefully they shall continue boldly on. Especially photography - I love it. I don't have to remind myself to do it, I just really really enjoy taking and editing pictures.

:) Lindsay Anne

P.S. The title of this post is called "Time" because of a song titled as such. It's by Chantal Kreviazuk, and it makes me especially wishy-washy about all this growing up stuff.

P.P.S. I am sooooo gonna sob at my graduation...