if wishes were fishes...

i wish that . . .

breasts were detachable.

life would be so much more comfortable...

hearts.

"love anything 

and your heart will be wrung and possibly 

broken.

if you want to make sure of keeping it intact 

you must give it to no one, 

not even an animal.

wrap it carefully round 


with hobbies and little luxuries; 

avoid all entanglements. 

lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness.

but in that casket--


safe, 
dark, 
motionless, 
airless--

it will change. 

it will not be broken; 






it will become 




unbreakable,
impenetrable, 










irredeemable. 

to love is to be vulnerable."

-- clive staples lewis

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日本への愛.

i spent three months of my life living and teaching in japan.

they were the shortest three months of my life.

but they were also the best three months of my life.

please...

do whatever you possibly can to help that beautiful country in their tremendous time of need.

donate... 

volunteer...

pray...

ANYTHING.

help the sun rise again

upon the land of the rising sun.

日本さん,


my prayers are with you.

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now paging . . .

if my last name was 
LOVE . . .

i would become a doctor.

. . .

because then, people could call me 

DR. LOVE

and it wouldn't even be a joke. 

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self-expression.

i've never been very good at expressing myself.

especially with words.

which is why the name of my blog is 

a little misleading.  

it should be named

the inarticulate babbler.

but as you can see, 

i didn't name it that.

. . .

it is my hope to become a little more artistic and expressive.

to be an eloquent orator is a goal of mine.  

this blog's purpose is to fulfill that goal.

plus it sounds really cool...

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