The Non-Essentials of Life
Advice from a long term missionary on what is important. As I spend serious head space trying to figure out how I'm going to get all.my.stuff home this summer (oh so much stuff) I really needed to hear those words. This summer I'm going to go through everything I own and be a touch ruthless. I have almost all my notes from my entire academic career. I am never ever again going to want to look at my GCSE math workbooks. Ever.

Fatface Dress
And, in complete contrast to the above link, if someone wants to buy me this dress that would be ok with me! Absolute brownie points if you can get it in red or purple and then I can wear it to graduation. Ok?

Stuff Christians Like
The "serious Wednesday" posts reguarly feel like they were written by someone who could see my own thought processes. This one was no exception.

Veggie Tales tell the story of St Patrick
Hi-larious. Especially the accents. And the fact it's not divided into Wales, Scotland and England but just "England". (Let me also take this opportunity to say I hope you had a fantastic St Patrick's Day and a huge whoop whoop to Ireland in the whole stopping-England-winning-a-grandslam and actually playing well in a match this Six Nations).

Bob Geldof's Speech at SXSW
Some really cool things can be pulled out of this: "Everybody has got the means to say anything they want, but nobody has anything to say." and "For whatever reason she found something lovable in this detestable person ... and so once that love persists, the shriven soul can only and inevitably respond by reciprocating... So a song got stitched back together again, and a human being got reconstructed in the process. Love really is all you need."

Something else I read this week, can't remember where: "I feel like my entire generation can be summed up in six words from a Nirvana song: Here we are now, entertain us." Thinking about that in the context of my life and the church etc... Interesting.