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Happy day-the-Ring-was-destroyed! Oh, and also happy feast of the Annunciation! :) It's a good day to recap my month, I guess. It's been quite busy and rather Lenten at moments, but it's starting to be spring here, which is beginning to do wonders for my mood, and school is going well and all that, so overall, I'm in pretty good shape. 1. The thing that really characterized my March (at least so far...at the beginning of next week, which is still officially March, I have a Landscape Architecture charrette , which might also be a characteristic event) was Spring Break! Home in the PNW for a whole glorious week and a day! It was lovely to see my family, wonderful to be back at my home parish for at least part of Lent (I got to go to Stations of the Cross there, which was a great joy), and also a joy to be back in my home city, where it had already been spring for several weeks (to be fair to Illinois, it's spring here now. But to...

In Which I Plot A Revolution, and Elrond's Face Comes Off//A Collab with Pippin

Before I knew exactly when Megan and I were going to do our collaboration, I asked my cousin Pippin if he wanted to do a collab with me, similar to the ones Faith and Brooke have been doing, where we would just chat about books and movies. He did want to, and so, since he has to go back to school this week and won't have time later, you're being gifted with two collabs in one month! Although, to be fair, they are very different collabs. :) Pippin is talking in purple , and I'm talking in my normal black Anyhow, without further ado... Welcome to the blog, Pippin! Glad I could be here, thanks so much for having me! You’re very welcome! Thank you for coming. So, do you want to introduce yourself a little to everyone? Yeah, sure! I’m Sam’s cousin, I just started at Uni last fall and I’m psyching myself up to go back, I’m an aspiring writer, and a fan of (some) classic literature. Fair enough. :) Favorite book? (I know, this is a mean question.) This is actually one of ...

Thoughts on Vocation in Popular Culture

Credit to owner. So, I was thinking about Frozen II the other day (possibly because one of my siblings was singing it? or maybe I was?) (this was before I left home, so more like the other month than the other day tbh) and it occurred to me...that two of the most recent Disney movies, Frozen II and Moana, explore primarily the theme of vocation. But, interestingly, from two different perspectives. Frozen II is more about the internal journey of vocation, what the person who is called goes through, while Moana is more about the external, if that makes sense...the resistance one gets from one's family in doing the thing that God wants you to do. If I'm being honest, I do more relate to Frozen II on this one. But semantics aside, what I find most interesting is that these are mainstream movies dealing with vocation, even if they don't realize it. And when the MCs of these movies follow their calling, they become happier. Just look at Elsa at the end of Frozen 2. Nex...

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