With a voice like a song bird.

Let's pretend for a minute that we don't live thousands of miles away from each other, and that sunday evening we had dinner and took pictures, and it wasn't a big deal.
But it kind of is, and I can't wait til the time when we can all casually hang out and it doesn't require a plane ticket.

If you're a bird, then I'm a bird.

p.s. go listen.

Mixed and Mingled

"it seems to me that our three basic needs for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined, that we cannot straightly think of one without the others."


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Mondays are for Music

listening here. 

Falafelafalel

Some delicious pita bread.  Homemade falafel that honestly was not very delicious.  Homemade fries that were delicious.

oh, and music.  

l.

Now we hear the stars

I've learned that I simply cannot make a small playlist of music.  I don't like to listen to something over and over after a certain point because that can and will ruin it for me.  so I make big playlists of happiness.  songs gathered from friends, from strangers, songs i know, songs i don't know, music that will inspire me to live, to dance, to laugh.
and so i frequently end of with hours of music before me, and my ipod on shuffle.  I like to be surprised, i like to hear the first notes of a song i'm not expecting, it's almost as if hearing it for the first time.  there's not a lot of contemplated listening when i'm happiest, just the music playing and me going about whatever it is.  I'll be doing schoolwork, blogging, cooking, reading, or sometimes I'll just be sitting still listening.
mainly, I just love sounds, and here is a (long, of course) playlist of the most pleasant sounds to my ears right now.  I hope you enjoy it.

now we hear the stars

lillian.

Look at the stars

Chasing Rubies

The Ballad of Love and Hate

the wind + my hair in the second picture = supes attractive ;)

Home

Little Talks

Some songs I've been listening to lately.  And an outfit I wore. 
♥

Well I won't be found

 The other day my wonderful friend Abigail and I decided to dress up and take pictures.  We nearly froze, and Abigail was tired but we persevered and had lots of fun.  Here are some of the results.  :)

we called this one "romance with a tree" ;)

Well if I ever see the morning
Just like a lizard in the spring
I’m gonna run out in the meadow
To catch the silence when it sings

I’m gonna force the Serengeti
To disappear into my eyes
Then when I hear your voices callin’
I’m gonna turn just inside out
Well if I ever get to slumber
Just like a mole deep in the ground
Well, I won’t be found

Deep in the dust forgotten gathered
I grow a diamond in my chest
I make reflections as the moon shines on
Turn to a villain as I rest
Well if I ever get to slumber
Just like a mole deep in the ground
Well, I won’t be found

 I know there is a hollow
I need to fill it with a draft
Of all the words that I wont way
And with a quiet whisper
I send a curse upon the day
That never used the sun to see
The light

I’m gonna float up in the ceiling
I built a levee of the stars
And in my field of tired horses
I built a freeway through this farce

Well if I ever get that slumber
Ill be that mole deep in the ground
And I won’t be found

 My camera was acting up and our light was almost gone at this point though. 

Happy Monday :)


Lillian ♥

p.s. this

Food and Dreams

I really like food.  I say it all the time and my dad laughs at me ;) but it's true.  I like cooking and baking as well.  I like the colors and the smells and the different flavor combinations.  I like simple foods and complicated ones, and I like changing recipes to be my own.

It's a little adventure for me to take a recipe and find something that makes it even better.
I like planning the meals out and going grocery shopping for the ingredients.  I often cook for my family, and feeding them, and seeing their faces as they smell something delicious (or if a meal doesn't smell delicious ;) is so rewarding(or comical).

I know that whatever I do in life, I will always hope to have a kitchen and mouths to feed.  I love children, and hope to have many of my own.  I hope to pass on my love of food, and teach little hands to cook.  

I want to teach children how to make a pie and flip a pancake.  I want to feed the hungry.  Now, and for the rest of my life, I want to be willing and eager to be hospitable, to feed, to laugh and to talk with all of God's children.

Lillian ♥


this and this.  ♥

Bringing out the scissors and the paper

Time for the paper snowflakes.

"Be still and know that I am God." (Psalm 46:10a)

This verse is like a hug.  Such a simple reassurance of God's vastness, we need only to be still and trust Him.

This.

Lillian ♥

Some shots {Thanksgiving Part 2}

I think power plants and factories and things like these are pretty. 

We went out to breakfast with a friend, and my siblings (mostly Emily) drank all the creamers.

Delicious smoothies.

At the Cowboy cafe they serve silverware in paper baggies. 

They also give out jackalope ride tokens.

I had *cough* half a Bubba Burger. 

For an appetizer on Thanksgiving we made bacon wrapped dates, which are delicious, but as I was taking this picture I asked my mom to remind me to take an "after baking" picture because otherwise it'd be pointless, obviously we forgot. 

we drank peace tea on the way home.

Hope you're all having a lovely Monday!

Lillian ♥

P.S. Listening to this, this and this.  :)