tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23579541410529936602024-03-19T03:58:11.401-07:00The Backs of a Thousand Marching CamelsA Floridian on the PalouseTali Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16343106112243634842noreply@blogger.comBlogger131125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357954141052993660.post-4860249243885438752012-03-02T21:48:00.002-08:002012-03-02T21:48:14.403-08:00cigarette fish.<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">i like standing around </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> together outside</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> breath</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> like we’re smoking cigarettes</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> i used to hate cigarettes</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">now they are fog</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> and </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> mist</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> maybe that ember on the end</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">spitting ash</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> glowing nicotine</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">brings warmth.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> and</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">it is Now, februarygone, </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">that i begin to think of the ocean again.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> sand</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">salt</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> skin burned all copper like pennies.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> and watermelon and stained freckle cheeks.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> we are fish.then.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> we are colors </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> even the water is warm.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> then. too warm.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> like the sparks</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> fell</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">out of the cigarettes</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> and hit the blue.</span></div>Tali Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16343106112243634842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357954141052993660.post-42337639447058050922012-02-04T08:25:00.000-08:002012-02-04T08:31:40.526-08:00Orange Tree<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;"></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">More writings for my Persuasive Writing class. It's so much fun!</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Sun shoots through my window and shatters against my eyes—green, with orange circles—and the inside of my eyelids is an orange tree. I think of the orange tree that was the only fence between us and Maria Teresa, the only fence between our driveway and hers. It was the only fence between me and that old lady who grabbed my shoulders once and shook me and yelled Spanish at my ears. But sometimes—when the blossoms smelled so strong I could feel the smooth rind of an orange in my hand and taste the bitterness of opening it with my teeth and the sweetness of juice dribbling down my throat—I’d step off our driveway and into her grass. The tree is gone now and so is she. She died—she was dead on her tiled kitchen floor for two days before someone found her—and Greeks moved in with screaming kids and funny names. They cut it down. They cut down that old orange tree, but I can still see it when the sun shines green and orange on my eyes.</span></div>Tali Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16343106112243634842noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357954141052993660.post-19923408369149074972012-01-25T17:03:00.000-08:002012-01-25T17:03:42.808-08:00Salted Sea Grass<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">An exercise for my Persuasive Writing class. Winter makes me talk about the beach.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> Sand scratched my shoulders and the bottoms of my feet, itchy with salt water. I watched ichthyomorphic clouds sit blobularly in the sky. Intorted waves threw a dead fish next to my toes; its tessellated scales were peeling and it already smelled. I walked toward the jetty, stepping around crabs that were cutting anfractuous paths through the shells and the sea grass. There was an old man standing on the rocks; a fishing pole dangled from his hand. His skin hung from his bones like an oversized leather jacket; a scraggy white beard hung down to his belly button; dark hair tufted along his shoulder blades. My brother fishes. He takes a boat into the waves and comes home—sandy and salty and sunburned—with a cooler full of fish. We wrap them in foil and lemon and pepper and grill them until their tessellated scales peel off with the blackened tinfoil. </span></div>Tali Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16343106112243634842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357954141052993660.post-80263824863585680972011-09-11T18:20:00.000-07:002011-09-11T18:22:03.411-07:00Dinner Plate Moon<div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We walked hard through thorns and cow patties. A fence stretched along a ridge of the hill. We sat next to it, sweating with the dirt and yellow jackets.</span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglKeffApJxkQirMe2OWnnL1TPhMyGpSS-Zwn8GF2nDNLyhNBOy5K6mU5QUVcs6XIGilR6aRHq8lqOtBiKGPKpzybKQ90wWeJDLB0RgIltHyaMyqRJB6QH4fiPBQ73qAztqcqgW3intlJxn/s1600/toocoolforschool.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglKeffApJxkQirMe2OWnnL1TPhMyGpSS-Zwn8GF2nDNLyhNBOy5K6mU5QUVcs6XIGilR6aRHq8lqOtBiKGPKpzybKQ90wWeJDLB0RgIltHyaMyqRJB6QH4fiPBQ73qAztqcqgW3intlJxn/s320/toocoolforschool.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Grass hoppers chased us down, hopping on our shoulders and slapping wings against our faces until we crossed the road and climbed up onto the rocks. The setting sun turned the water pink and made my hair look red. I changed into my swimsuit; the water was dark when I splashed in. Fish jumped across the river--spooky sounds in the twilight, the full moon rising like a yellow dinner plate over the hills. I climbed back onto the rocks, my hair dripping cold against my stomach and my thorn-marks stinging in the night air. My fingers smelled like water. A friend and I discussed tattoos and life and death and beauty and sorrow, and the moon kept rising, shrinking, like a dinner plate flying into the stars.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Tali Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16343106112243634842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357954141052993660.post-14381824081401681962011-09-08T22:11:00.000-07:002011-09-08T22:11:22.537-07:00Lingua LatinaThis morning I sat in the library, my gray computer chair squatting low like a tweed mushroom. The dingy cord of my earphones hung from the computer box; 14th century church music played in my ears. The words were in Latin, but I could understand them. Suddenly this "dead" language came alive to me. Because I am learning this ancient language, I am becoming connected with the church of the past. Words penned by monks in candlelight and sung by monks in cathedrals are words that I can now understand. <i>Quia Linguam Latinam novi, veterem iungor.</i> Let <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%20%20%20http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpgaEFmdFcM%20">this Latin chant</a> touch your soul, even if you cannot understand the words.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Viderunt omnes fines terrae salutari Dei nostri:<br />
Jubilate Deo omnis terra.<br />
Notum fecit Dominus salutare suum:<br />
ante conspectum gentium revelavit justitiam suam.</div><br />
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</div>Tali Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16343106112243634842noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357954141052993660.post-43528144049909930012011-09-05T12:00:00.000-07:002011-09-05T12:00:49.072-07:00CampingHeadlights glint on the sleek fur of the moose. It throws its tall rack up as Bailey pounds the gas and her little green car bucks out of reach of danger. Blood shivering in veins, we continue the journey to the peak, slipping around three-foot ruts and barely avoiding potholes. The sky is stars as we start a fire and unload our camping gear by the light of the flames. When the tent is up and the sleeping bags unrolled, we bundle in jackets and move slowly through the dark, toward the rocks. I find my favorite crevice and curl up to stare at the moonlit Palouse, at the lights of man below and of God above. Stars fall across the blackness like acorns bouncing from oak trees; the Milky Way is bright and the Big Dipper hangs behind me. We whisper and laugh, but we don't tell ghost stories--we'll be able to hear coyotes as we fall asleep tonight.<br />
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Morning slips through the trees, the sunlight like a secret. And before us stretches an entire day on my mountain: to hike and climb and eat roadside berries, to study and dance with bees and find mushrooms and build fires and to breathe, to breathe that fresh, clean mountain air.Tali Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16343106112243634842noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357954141052993660.post-24308776799053589372011-08-31T07:56:00.000-07:002011-08-31T07:56:11.423-07:00Apis Me Petit<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arabic Typesetting"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Until this weekend, I had never been stung by a bee. On Sunday I was stung by a yellow jacket while hiking along the Snake River. Last night a bee dove inside my shirt and stung me three times while I was biking through town. Hives started to crawl along my forehead, around my back, up my arms and into my armpits. It felt like five hundred hornets and twice as many ants were having a family reunion on my skin and weren’t too happy I’d showed up.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arabic Typesetting"; font-size: 16pt;">My roommates told me to take a warm oatmeal bath and gave me Benadryl. While soaking in the mushy water, I called my mom. As we were talking, I started wheezing and coughing. Because I’ve had asthma for so long, I’m used to having a difficult time breathing. It doesn’t scare me anymore. But my eyes were swelling and my ears were hot and my whole body was red as a clown’s lips. Mom told me to go to the Emergency Room immediately.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arabic Typesetting"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Bobbi and Emma (two of my lovely roommates) and I piled in Bobbi’s ancient car, which smoked and shuddered us down the hill to the hospital. In Orlando, people are spilling out of the ER. You have to wait for hours as smashed skulls are sewn up and tree branches pulled out of stomachs and dangling bones set until it’s finally your turn to get fixed. At the Moscow hospital, however, there wasn’t a single person in the ER waiting room but the receptionist, who immediately led me into a room.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arabic Typesetting"; font-size: 16.0pt;">A nurse hooked me up to a pulse and blood pressure monitor, and handed me a nebulizer tube. After years with my dear Mr. Neb, this all felt very routine. Then she went for my elbow pit with a giant needle; I quickly told her that the veins in my arms are too small for needles. So, the thick needle went in my hand and I could feel the cold medicine shooting up my arm.</span></div><br />
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After three years of begging my parents to let me pierce my nose, I finally got it done! Even though my mom gave her permission, she is not happy about it. She thinks I look like a bull. But that was actually why I wanted a hoop: it’s symbolic. A bull’s nose is pierced so that it can be controlled by its master. I pierced my own nose as a sign that I want to be controlled by my master, the Lord Jesus Christ. <br />
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One of the first things that made me want a nose ring were these Bible verses: <br />
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"And I put a ring on your nose and earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head. Thus you were adorned with gold and silver…And your renown went forth among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through the splendor that I had bestowed on you, declares the Lord GOD." (Ezekiel 16:12, 14)<br />
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"Then I asked her, 'Whose daughter are you?' She said, 'The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bore to him.' So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her arms. Then I bowed my head and worshiped the LORD and blessed the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me by the right way to take the daughter of my master’s kinsman for his son." (Genesis 24:47-48)<br />
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The first verses are from a passage in Ezekiel that is an analogy of God’s unwavering love and faithfulness to Israel, even when they are whoring after other gods. The second passage is from the story of Isaac and Rebekah, when Abraham sends his servant to find a wife for Isaac. In both of these passages, the nose ring seems to signify a sense of ownership, but loving ownership.<br />
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My Savior shed his blood to make me his own. I am his, just like Israel was God’s, just like Rebekah was Isaac’s, just like a bull is his master’s. I am Christ’s slave, and the silver ring in my nose is a symbol that I serve him willingly, with all the love I have.Tali Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16343106112243634842noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357954141052993660.post-15361681864208072362011-05-07T22:44:00.000-07:002011-05-07T22:44:54.435-07:00Dirt NapWhen I was a little kid, I used to get freaked out about going to Heaven. Forever? What would I do for forever? The incomprehensibleness of it was terrifying, and shadowy images of harps and clouds made me feel sick. But what if Heaven isn't some Platonic state where we float around in infinite it-ness? What if we have these same bodies, transformed and glorified? What if we still have toenails and we still have to clip them? What if we can still get muddy and there are still trees to climb?<br />
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That's the Heaven my hope is in.<br />
That Heaven doesn't make me cry.<br />
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Stephen Sampson, one of the seniors at NSA, shared this sketch at Senior Disputatio on Friday. It captures many of the lessons I have been learning and thoughts I've been thinking since moving out to this place of yellow wheat and furrowed hills. <br />
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Dirt Nap:<br />
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Waking up in this box is the first thing I remember.<br />
As far as I can tell I've been lying here for a long time, my clothes show the signs of worm and decay and the cushions are no where near as comfortable as they used to be.<br />
Where I came from, people asked a lot of questions about what this day was going to be like.<br />
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Will we be recreated from our former matter?<br />
What happens if I was burned to ashes?<br />
Will it be like waking up? How will we know it's not just another dream?<br />
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I'm still not sure why He didn't tell us.<br />
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Anyway, I'm here in this box now and I'm beginning to realize nobody's going to get me out.<br />
Panic sets in. But it's not the kind of panic that comes before an unavoidable tragedy, but rather the kind that inspires you to do the barely possible. Think midnight the night before an 8:00 AM deadline. Not impossible. Just crazy.<br />
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I rip the upholstrey off the roof of my box, piling it at my feet. My family realy went all out, this silk is pretty nice.<br />
There is now nothing but bare cherry planks in front of me.<br />
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I do a couple of those short sharp in and out breaths that kids do right before diving off a rock into a freezing river, propping my self on elbows.<br />
Letting my body drop I throw both fists directly into the wood. I expect to bleed. I expect it to be like Kill Bill.<br />
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Shocked, I watch as my hands bust through planks like rocks falling onto rotten logs. My fists are full of dirt now, and I'm beginning to see why He never told us.<br />
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My vengeful pistons now drive forward in 2 stroke beauty -- crushing and smashing my box till there is nothing but splinters. I have dug out a little space and I can finally kneel.<br />
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We had been missing the point entirely, we had no clue. We were still so small, arguing over the Thomistic particulars of the glimpse of the truth we were given, like children arguing over the rules of a game their Dad made up. I want to laugh but there is not enough air here yet, and the worms are watching me, waiting to see what comes next.<br />
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I oblige them and become like a boy again. I become the boy I used to be, digging holes in the mud with bare hands. I dug then because the dirt had a gritty reality to it that I craved. I had no idea back then that I was being prepared for this day. Digging a hole was easier back when you could put the dirt somewhere other than on top of you, but I am finding that my hands speak to the dirt better now, and it is molding itself to my whim.<br />
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Digging further up now, I am able to stand and work windmill swipes at the earthy ceiling with the worms cheering me on.<br />
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I am sweating now. This new body is actually sweating. Aquinas couldn't have guessed this one.<br />
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Hanging with my right hand from a root I get a swing going and throw an arm through the dirt, grabbing another root with my left. I get a rhythm going, one after the other, swimming upwards through the dirt.<br />
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I grab for the next root and find it is thicker and I can see now that it feeds up into a trunk. I am close now. My limbs are tired, tired like they used to be when I was young. Tired like it's sundown in summer and I want to keep sun up with my 8 year old activity. Tired like I've been up all night preparing for a trip to the Lake. Tired like swimming for the raft under the blanket of midnight. Tired like I'm taking the boat out for one more sail before we leave for home in the morning. Tired like it's the second to last dance and I still haven't danced with my girl.<br />
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One final upwards heave.<br />
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I don't know what feels better, the dirt under my fingernails or the brand new breeze through my open hand, but I'm glad He never told me.Tali Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16343106112243634842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357954141052993660.post-43834377478567197052011-04-21T07:43:00.000-07:002011-04-21T07:43:10.620-07:00Yellow Ocean<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I was born with the ocean </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">tossing spit balls over the rocky California beaches </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">into my windows.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I was just a baby </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">when Mom and Daddy loaded everything in the car and we drove </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">over mountains and through wheat fields</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and past the sunflowers dancing along Kansas highways.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I was crying </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">when the air got heavy and the wind drooped with salt and</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Mom and Daddy parked the car in Florida.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I was a stranger there.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Palm trees and swamps and millions of people crowded me in for eighteen years.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">But I was a stranger there.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I was all grown up </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">when Mom and Daddy loaded me onto an airplane</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and I flew over mountains and past the Kansas sunflowers.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I was laughing </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">when the air turned fresh </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and the wind teased the mountains</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and the hills that rocked like a thousand marching camel humps.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Yellow wheat rolled and swayed like ocean waves:</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I was in a new sea.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">But</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I was home.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div>Tali Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16343106112243634842noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357954141052993660.post-39648273225718247962011-04-07T19:53:00.000-07:002011-04-07T19:55:08.814-07:00The Fish<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A prose adaptation of Elizabeth Bishop's poem.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I wriggled my toes in the water sloshing in the bottom of my canoe and a beetle bumped against my foot. A green spider scuttled along the hot aluminum, wobbling like it was dancing with the burning metal. When it hid in the shade under my seat, I baited my fishing hook and tossed it into the green water. Then I closed my eyes and let the sun flicker orange over my eyelids and freckle brown across my shoulders. Dangling my hand out of the boat, I ran my fingers through the lake water and felt the weeds slither through my grasp like water moccasins. </span></div> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Suddenly my fishing pole moved and I snatched it and reeled in fast. A tremendous fish jumped out of the water and landed on my foot. He didn’t wriggle or flop. He just stared up at me with eyes that were bigger than mine and tarnished, like dirty tinfoil. I reached to pull the hook out of his lip and found that it was tangled in four or five pieces of old fish-line. They looked like medals hanging from his bloodied lip, and I stared and I stared at them floating in the water and the victory in the bottom of my canoe. Then the sun caught the edge of the hook—stuck in that old fish’s lip—and light glittered over his tinfoil eyeballs and sparkled on the hot aluminum canoe until everything was “rainbow, rainbow, rainbow. And I let the fish go.”</span>Tali Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16343106112243634842noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357954141052993660.post-49164993294226570302011-02-22T18:10:00.000-08:002011-02-22T18:10:21.966-08:00Florida in the Summertime<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">This is a trochaic poem (at least, I hope it's trochaic...) I wrote for Rhetoric class. As much as I love all this snow, a warm, Florida thunderstorm would be pretty nice, too. </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Black across the sky appear </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Clouds as dark as growing fear</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Crashing thunder, lightning bright</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Shapes revealed in shining light</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Pounding rain is harsh and yet</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Children dance with rivulet</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I am driven out to play</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Hands and fingers meet halfway</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Sticks and stones in water race</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In the gutter they embrace</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Splashes, screams and shouts we make</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In the road we find a snake</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Actually, it is a worm</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Poke—and watch it twist and squirm</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Covered in a gooey slime</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Florida in the summertime</span></div>Tali Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16343106112243634842noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357954141052993660.post-16095579526535484662011-02-17T19:03:00.000-08:002011-02-18T08:59:31.040-08:00Calvin and Hobbes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3551512/tape%20teeth.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="126" src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3551512/tape%20teeth.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I wrote this for Rhetoric Declamations yesterday. It was nice to think of a warm summer's night as cold crept through my doors and windows and plopped itself in my lap.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">If you turn a flashlight on at the beach at night, you can watch the light bob along on the backs of all the crabs swarming around you. There are these places at the beach called jetties, where all these big rocks are piled up like someone tried to build a road out to sea. One night I climbed out on a jetty with my friends. Barnacles nipped at our toes like snapping turtles as we tip-toed along the boulders slimy with algae and fish guts. When we got to the end of the jetty, we nestled in with the barnacles and sea shells and watched the waves come in. At first they were pretty small, just splashes on our legs as they rolled to shore. But as the tide rose, the waves grew until we could see the water start to swell up hundreds of yards out, as if a monster was going to burst from the depths. Then the swell moved toward us, growing bigger and bigger until the top of it turned white and it looked like hundreds of miniature sheep were getting sucked into the sea. And then it was all over us, slamming our faces, our stomachs, shoving us into the barnacles. As it went back out, it tried to take me with it. My friend grabbed my arm as I was yanked off the jetty and threw both of us against the rocks, back with the sea shells and the barnacles. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div>Tali Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16343106112243634842noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357954141052993660.post-83040040121448560602010-12-18T09:09:00.000-08:002010-12-18T09:09:13.476-08:00Spirits of the EarthThe weather here is as indecisive as a fat kid in a candy shop.<br />
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Yesterday I walked a farmer's field, the muddy stubble rising in hills beneath my feet, the green grass poking its sweet head in between the furrows. In caelo supra valles, sol lucet clarussior quam feminae ornamenta. (<i>In the sky above the hills, the sun shone brighter than a woman's jewels.)</i> The sky was bluer than the ocean on a still day and in the distance, I could see Moscow Mountain, its peak white with snow. It was cold, but as the sun set it hung close to me, warming the world in a dusting of golden light. <br />
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This morning I sit cross-legged on our gold velvet couch; across from me stands my Charlie Brown tree: slightly bent but cheerful strung with popcorn and cranberries. The world is white now, swirling in furies of snow falling hard, fast, crooked. It began less than an hour ago, but the red car in the neighbor's drive is now topped with white and the road is thickly dusted. <br />
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As I walked those hills yesterday, my shadow bobbed along on the next hill over, waving back when I lifted a hand in greeting. I could feel fairies and dryads all around me. The world is surely magic, full of spirits and the spiritual.Tali Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16343106112243634842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357954141052993660.post-8060787972008751902010-12-05T18:42:00.000-08:002010-12-05T18:42:51.421-08:00SnowfieldsSnow has turned the fields outside Moscow into wilderness. It makes this place treacherously beautiful. When I was sledding, snow streaked across the old farmer's hill we were on; everything glowed orange in the falling white. Trees in the distance stood fuzzy, like an old photograph--and just as quiet. It felt as if we had been displaced: like we, laughing in our wool hats and wet gloves and ears full of snow, were the only creatures alive in a land of whiteness. <br />
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It was magic, being alive just then. Tali Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16343106112243634842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357954141052993660.post-78712431189973897192010-11-28T22:56:00.000-08:002010-11-28T22:56:10.906-08:00Pachabell RantMy roommate, Kait, showed <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM">this </a>to me today and it was so fantastic I had to share it with the world! (Or the three people who actually look at this. Ha.)<br />
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[Jessie, this is especially for you. Make sure you listen.]Tali Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16343106112243634842noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357954141052993660.post-43973875530119643012010-11-27T10:17:00.000-08:002010-11-27T10:17:43.161-08:00Leavenworth, WAI'm giddy with the falling of the snow.<br />
I laugh as it catches in my eyelashes and the fur of my coat.<br />
It's such a white world of firsts!<br />
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First snowball fight. <br />
First snow bunny.<br />
First snow angel.<br />
First below zero experience.<br />
First time to wake to ice <i>inside</i> the windows.<br />
First time sledding.<br />
First time to eat snow.<br />
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Over Thanksgiving break, I went to stay with the Turnbulls, and experienced many of my firsts with them. It was a splendid visit, and all of us were very sad when it came to an end. While I was there, we played in the snow, played duets for hours, read books, watched Wives and Daughters, cooked, baked, ate, played in the snow some more, etc, etc. It was such fun!<br />
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<span id="goog_957022390"></span><span id="goog_957022391"></span>Tali Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16343106112243634842noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357954141052993660.post-87653125500848252012010-11-16T08:45:00.000-08:002010-11-16T08:45:50.804-08:00Wind."Is that rain?" I threw open the front door. Rainless wind tore across the yard, ripping leaves from trees and strewing them along the street. Like soldiers attacking a bastion, the wind battered against the house all night long. When it would wake me, I lay in bed with my head under a barricade of blankets, listening to the sounds like sirens, like wolfs howling in derision.<br />
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The wind is gone this morning, but its story is not. On my way to school this morning, I passed a little brick house. Four children and their mother were crowded in the front window, staring out at the tree smashed against their house. Trees are lying--like corpses of soldiers--in the streets. The last vestige of orange leaves has been torn from the trees that still stand.<br />
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Downtown all the power is out. The dark shops are like the first breath of a ghost town. When I got to school, it too was dark. Students milled around the commons room, unsure if there would be classes. I decided there wouldn't be and skipped back home through the blue-skyed aftermath of the storm. <br />
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A stack of books sits in front of me. Latin needs to be read. But I just might bundle up again and return to the story of the wind.Tali Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16343106112243634842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357954141052993660.post-64215827548396064422010-11-13T12:01:00.000-08:002010-11-13T12:01:01.705-08:00Boots!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_FeA0RcWBY9P3nmrZSni4TmhrtfcwP5EJ4Y_PGCutx40h6k00TIDkJ30OKZNGEHPTHgjg-5ryvfWaLampMnm-iecQ5tpzqRsKb23m93V8AEJhpitWJ1Tq9Y_ssZTAnkqrZ2u86xn6XQFk/s1600/DSCN0660.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_FeA0RcWBY9P3nmrZSni4TmhrtfcwP5EJ4Y_PGCutx40h6k00TIDkJ30OKZNGEHPTHgjg-5ryvfWaLampMnm-iecQ5tpzqRsKb23m93V8AEJhpitWJ1Tq9Y_ssZTAnkqrZ2u86xn6XQFk/s320/DSCN0660.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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A small caravan of cars snaked through the winding hills outside Pullman, windows down and hair blowing in the warm breeze. After a (relatively) short drive, we arrived at Granite Point, which is an outcropping of rocks along the Snake River. I jumped out of the car and ran up to the top of the boulders. As I stood on top of those rocks, wind whipping against me, I watched the white heads of choppy water march down the river. <br />
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Some people rock climbed. Almost everyone jumped off a thirty foot rock into the river. I waded in and lost my breath as the freezing water snatched at my ribs. Despite the cold, it felt so wonderful to be in the water! One of the things I really miss out here are lakes and the ocean, so it was exhilarating to be submerged in water! Eventually I climbed dripping and numb from the river, shared a port-a-potty with a wasp, and arrived home in damp clothes and wild hair. All in all, it was a fantastic afternoon.Tali Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16343106112243634842noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357954141052993660.post-87035062602975230942010-09-17T18:38:00.000-07:002010-09-17T18:38:17.639-07:00Bicycle BabeThat would be me. <br />
I am now rockin' a rock awesome bike.<br />
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I got a helmet too, Mommy. :)Tali Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16343106112243634842noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357954141052993660.post-58850535434888439412010-09-12T17:49:00.000-07:002010-09-12T17:49:57.892-07:00Sunrise on the Mountain<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
On Saturday morning I drove up Moscow Mountain with a group of friends to watch the sunrise.<br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;"> As we sat watching the sun rise below us, breath spilled from our mouths like smoke. </span>It was icily cold on the rocks, and we huddle together, wrapped in our coats and blankets. Finally the sun broke over the treetops, and the rays reached up to us.<br />
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;">After our walk, we sung a few hymns and then I went off exploring by myself. Making my way a little down the mountain, I climbed up on a simply reveled in being outdoors. The sun had warmed the day so much that I shed my coat and jacket and rolled up my jeans. As I was coming back from my expedition, I encountered a boulder and decided to climb it.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Sucking in a deep breath, I stuck my foot in the first foot hole and started climbing up. Before long, I ran out of foot holes and hung there trying to decide if I want to lunge for the rock jutting out about a foot above me, or if should let the whole thing go and get down. Since I was by myself (but not far from the others, Mommy, I promise), I decided to go with the latter plan.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">But I really wanted to climb it. So I got Parker and Wilson to come back with me. Wilson chose a different route up the boulder, and made it with only a little (ok...maybe a lot) of difficulty. I decided to try my way again. With little effort I made it back to the spot I'd stopped at before. Once again, I couldn't get up any farther. My Converse-clad feet kept slipping on the rock. But I was determined to make it up. So, leaning hard against the rock, I maneuvered in some crazy ways and stripped my socks and shoes. I made it to the top! Hopefully next Saturday I'll get to hike the whole mountain. :)</div>Tali Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16343106112243634842noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357954141052993660.post-54246562657603344682010-09-10T13:33:00.000-07:002010-09-10T13:33:48.811-07:00ClassesInstead of attacking my reading and papers, I'm going to tell you about them. ;)<br />
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<u>Rhetoric:</u> On Monday mornings I have Rhetoric lectures with Nate Wilson. His teaching is phenomenal, and I am often completely blown away when I walk out of his classroom. Somehow he takes everything from firefly wings to eavesdropping to building a mosque near Ground Zero and turns it into a brilliant lecture on classic rhetoric. On Thursday we have Declamation, where we have to step onto a stage and apply what we're learning.<br />
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<u>Music</u>: This class includes written theory, aural skills, and choir. Since I played the piano, the theory is pretty easy. But the aural skills and singing are a huge challenge! Dr. Erb (my professor) has been kind enough to spend about half an hour each week working with me on my singing. As a little kid I resisted my mother's attempts to improve my singing, and I've always been mortified to let anyone hear me croak out a "tune." It's still embarrassing, but I've finally set my mind to at least attempt to improve. Dr. Erb told me last week that learning to sing is like learning to run faster: it takes great will-power and hard work. Since I spent much of the summer focusing on running faster, this analogy really hit home with me.<br />
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<u>Latin:</u> Although I took Latin in high school, it's all Greek to me now; my magister has an entirely different approach to learning this ancient language. Instead of teaching us the Latin words for the English words for actual concepts, he is teaching us the Latin words for the concepts themselves. It's definitely a challenge, but I'm really excited about it! Before recitation this morning, I very nerdily wrote out all the cases and declensions we've learned thus far and taped them on the wall next to my bed. Before long I'll be dreaming in Latin!<br />
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<u>Lordship</u>: This is basically a theology class, in which we focus heavily on reading. Thus far we've completed Augustine's <i>Confessions </i>and<i> City of God</i>, and have just begun Athanasius' <i>On the Incarnation</i>. It's incredible to be able to learn from these great men of the faith, and to have my mind stretched and strengthened as I consider Christianity from many different aspects.<br />
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Well, speaking of all this schoolwork, I'd best get back at it. Miss you, Florida.Tali Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16343106112243634842noreply@blogger.com2