I still remember when about ten years ago, the Bouroullec brothers came to Lisbon to present Vitra’s Joyn system. During a short interview, the eldest brother Ronan, told me that if he wasn’t a designer, he could have been a fisherman… but it’s a good thing he sticked with the first option, just look at the new AIM lamp for Flos (i’ve just assembled one moments ago). Once again, the designer duo managed to surprise in a world where ‘everything is invented’. Based on the Lianes lamps limited edition, created for Galerie Kreo in 2010, AIM are inventive, very appealing and have a magnificent lighting. Love it!

Ainda me lembro quando há cerca de dez anos, os irmãos Bouroullec vieram a Lisboa apresentar o sistema Joyn da Vitra. Durante uma pequena entrevista, o mais velho Ronan, disse-me que se não fosse designer, poderia ter sido, quem sabe, pescador… ainda bem que se ficou pela primeira, basta ver o novo candeeiro AIM para a Flos (acabei de montar um há pouco). Mais uma vez, a dupla de designers conseguiu surpreender num mundo onde já se ‘inventou tudo’. Tendo como base os candeeiros de edição limitada Lianes, criados para a Galerie Kreo em 2010, os AIM são inventivos, muito apelativos e dão uma iluminação magnífica. Adoro!

by Álvaro Tavares Ramos

source: starwars.wikia.com

You know the scene in Star Wars (The Empire Strikes Back) where Vader tells the Emperor that Luke will “join us or die”? It’s really not so much of a threat as it is a promise. Sure it’s a promise that he can’t keep, but Vader isn’t threatening Luke in that scene: he’s promising the Emperor that Luke will die if Luke doesn’t join them.

In a way, God has issued a similar promise to humanity: join Us or die. Except when God makes this promise He isn’t looking to scare people into a relationship with Him – He just reminds people what will happen if they choose to reject Him.

Confusion increased due to this vacuum, and the sure knowledge of who we were and should be suffered as a result.

It is as though a mutant gene had been introduced , and the changes it would produce became increasingly evident as new generations arose.

We are a noticeably different than we were a century or two ago, lost ground that we may never make up.

Vacuums create voids, an emptiness that some will see as opportunity and eagerly seize upon.

People want and need someone to look up to, someone, something to believe in- a vulnerability exists in such a need that is easily exploited.

And the vehicle of choice is words-Castro knew this, Hitler knew it, Stalin knew it, and the AIM leadership knew it.

All rode the wave of populist rhetoric, and once having gained power resorted to intimidation and force to retain it.

All enriched themselves and lived above those in poverty and abuse they claimed to speak for.

All beat the drums of war and portrayed  themselves as liberators, soldiers in the war on poverty and oppression, even while usurping the original oppressors with their own version.

Who honors leaders that turn against their own people, who will rape and murder their own?

Do any think Assad is an honorable man as he kills his own people-or the Palestinian movement not without it’s own downside when it is controlled not by Palestinians but Hamas and Hezbollah as clients of Iran and Syria?

Is the Taliban worthy of honor as they subjugate women, bomb schools where children attend, and rule by fear?

If you have said no to these questions then tell me the difference between them and the AIM leadership.

PRINCIPLES-Ultimately they are what defines positions taken and individuals.

a. A rule or standard, especially of good behavior: a man of principle.
b. The collectivity of moral or ethical standards or judgments: a decision based on principle rather than expediency.

A part of the definition, good behavior, morality, and ethics characterized by sound decisions and not expediency.

Definitions that seem to exclude not only Russell but the AIM leadership in the bargain as well.

Name a political party and Means probably claimed to belong to it at some point or another-as to the Libertarians I don’t claim to be all that familiar with their positions as I believe politicians regardless of their affiliations are poseurs lacking any real principles, and I have little inclination to listen to them.

A “principle” could rightly be said to be the commonly held desire of indigenous people to govern themselves and be dealt with equitably-something Means got a lot of mileage out of as he worked the crowds and the donations/media angles. Something the AIM leadership has as well.

Justice would be another principle they devote a lot of verbiage to, yet they as a collective have been noticeably short on principles when it comes to such things as justice for Annie, Ray, and the victims of WK2 both living and deceased.

Sort of a compromise you might say where principles are set aside, become secondary to their own interests.

Five plus centuries of death and destruction, of  blood and misery, as the result of adhering to the principle that we are a people who have the right to self determination, to controlling our own destiny, and being secure in our persons and our homes.

Yet it is AIM, the leadership, who placed a price tag on that and routinely bargained it away for their own greed-their own sense of entitlement and flagrant lack of principles long held by the nations while adorning themselves with laughable titles like warrior, liberator, patriot, and chief.

Those willing to subjugate these principles of justice and independence to a handful of frauds deserve neither, and need to get out of the way of those who do rather than hinder them.

Likewise those who in attending the AIM sponsored Kabuki promoted as ceremonies and contribute to the mockery would better serve the nations and traditions if they  purchased a crystal to wave around and had one of their new age friends paint a third eye on their forehead.

Look to the land you walk upon where the blood of your ancestors lays, where their voices and the voices of innocent victims can be heard, not to some wannabe amplifying lies through a microphone or bullhorn with their hand in your pocket.

国会之前通过立法，从1989年逐步设立的市镇理事会，其政治意涵是很明显的。原本由建屋局执行的管理组屋区的权力，下放给各选区的民选议员，最主要的目的是要提醒选民，在选举本区的代议士时，要谨慎和理性。因为，议员要负责市镇会的管理工作，等于必须具备治理选区的能力，而不单是在国会能言善辩。

当然，这么做还有另一个好处，就是让组屋区的管理，从建屋局庞大划一的官僚体制中解放出来，允许议员和他挑选的地方治理团队有自主的灵活性，可以发展出本区的特色。不过，经过了二十几年相对平静的岁月后，人们似乎已忘记了市镇会当初成立的政治意涵，因此，现在才会出现不少人要市镇会“去政治化”的呼声。

关于市镇会“政治化”的讨论是由Action Information Management（简称AIM）事件引起的，过后，李显龙总理要国家发展部设案调查。现在，国家发展部市镇理事会检讨小组的报告出来了，按照新加坡政策研究院高级研究员许林珠博士的说法，检讨报告显示AIM并没有损害居民的利益，并从中获得任何好处；相反的，它同时为14个市镇会提供服务实现规模经济效益，为居民带来的利益超过了盈利企业。（5月4日《联合早报》）

不过，现在的焦点已从AIM转移到市镇会这个制度本身。检讨报告认为，市镇会基本上达到了原来设立的目标，但是，在政治竞争的背景下，它既要为居民提供好的服务，又要对议员起到问责的作用，这两者之间不免存在根本的政治张力。目前的制度安排，因而也存在市镇会行政被政治化的危险，因此建议加以检讨。

客观来说，市镇会是一个对选民有利的机制。第一，它时刻提醒选民，选区的利益和自己所选的议员的素质是挂钩的，因此，不宜感情用事；其次，它也迫使当选者必须认真治理好市镇里的事务，尤其是要设法改善居民的居住与生活环境；其三，它也制造了政党之间的良性竞争，必须把市镇治理好，才能在下届大选继续赢得选民的信赖和支持；其四，市镇会的运作和财务必须是透明的，这有助于遏制任何贪腐。

这些都可以说是符合民众利益的“政治目的”，为什么要去政治化呢？去政治化的诉求，其潜台词是什么呢？不同政党议员之间的良性竞争对选民是有利的。至少，选民多了一个客观衡量选区议员表现和治理能力的标准。

从阿裕尼市镇会的交接，到市镇会管理报告，再到AIM和市镇会组织的被拉下水，问题的焦点被一再转移，很多人也被弄得团团转。依笔者愚见，这次的风波，真正凸显的不是AIM有什么问题，也不是市镇会有什么问题，它本质上是政党轮替的交接问题。

阿裕尼集选区市镇会在上届大选后出现政党轮替，是自有市镇会以来反对党第一次在大选中攻下一个集选区。由此引发的市镇会交接过程的争论，进一步扩大为政党商业行为的政治争议，交接问题很明显的被政治化。显然，有关市镇会交接程序的规定并不十分明确，因此也出现了政治操作的模糊空间。无论如何，这对居民来说是不利的。解决之道，应该是把出现政党轮替的交接程序明确化，确保交接过程顺利，不致出现服务中断或受政治龃龉的影响，而不是像一些人所建议的，交回给国家发展部集中管理，这么做是倒退，市镇会可以视为一种基层民主形式，应该加强，不是因噎废食。

除了交接程序，我想，每个政党和无党派人士在参加大选时，都必须做好接管市镇会的准备。如果能有硬性规定最好，如果无法做出这方面的硬性规定，选民在投票时就得更加谨慎，必须确保自己所投选的对象一旦中选，有能力在规定的时间内接管市镇会。

检讨小组在报告中已为可能的改变留下伏笔，它建议，政府对市镇会目前的形式作一番策略性的检讨。确保市镇会交接程序更加妥善，市镇会在出现政党或议员交接时，能继续不受政治力的干扰，这些或许都应列入检讨的范围。无论如何，李显龙总理已经预告，国家发展部长许文远会在本月13日国会开会时，针对这一课题发表部长声明。到时，部长会有什么宣布，值得关注。

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-Oren Lyons

Lot of people willing to leave the thinking and the decision making process to others, willing to just follow along-something I’ve never understood.

Never understood what is lacking in those who do.

Common sense is instinctual,it’s something I believe we are born with and can be cultivated-that little voice that asks why, or  says wait a minute, think about this.

It’s what keeps us from sticking our hand in a fire, or understanding that something that sounds too good to be true probably isn’t.

It’s what raises the red flag, tells us if we don’t want water pouring through the roof when it rains it needs to be fixed.

Common sense sounds mundane, too ordinary, too common for some, and they will replace it with the term critical thinking believing it sounds more lofty, and in describing themselves as critical thinkers it adds value to their words or opinions.

But I believe in the end they are one and the same-though I’m pretty sure that in saying so the critical thinkers would take issue with it as they seem to believe the ability is derived from having been to college or owning a piece of paper that says they are a series of initials like B.A. or Phd and somehow sets them apart, elevates them.

Kind of funny in a way because common sense knows that the ability  to reason isn’t dependent on a piece of paper.

Critical thinking will write a treatise to give a response to a simple question-common sense will cover the same ground with a nod of the head or a few words.

Common sense has been the vehicle that’s asked the hard questions when it’s come to AIM and Peltier, served to expose the truth and rout the lies……that’s common sense, not common lies.

Common lies are what caused the Lemming like procession of believers to hurl themselves over the precipice of the Mr. X lie, to follow along accepting the hero warrior myth of both AIM and Peltier, to ignore the reality of AIM’s  guilt for the murder of Annie, Ray, and victims laying in unmarked graves.

Be your own person, not someone willing to jump off a cliff- in doing so you’ll find a lot of common ground to share with others based on common sense.

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This pic I took was in Pune when I had gone to escort my friend . What I feel is that we complain so much about Life, that we don’t have this, we have so much of work. What we need is sleep,rest and want to relax for sometimes. Well think of the people who sleeps on these carts with no dunlop mattresses below them. Atleast when we sleep for even 5 hours, we have a HOME, which these people dream of.

So I guess with whatever we have we should be happy as if you can’t enjoy with what you have, you can never get more than that.

Try live a Life with what you have and Aim for more but with not greediness.

Made me think about Wesley Snipes being convicted for and sentenced to prison for the same thing-I’m not familiar with the statistics but I kind of wonder how many high profile people have found themselves in the same situation?

Willie Nelson seems to get busted for pot on almost a regular basis, also had his own issues with the IRS.

I understand that income tax evasion and possession of marijuana  are against the law, but I wonder if any think the severity of such crimes is more than say murder for instance?

No? Then how about arson, is that worse? Or taking hostages and razing a village while murdering a few people and burying them in unmarked graves?

How about abducting a woman, beating her, and then shooting her in the back of the head-is that worse?

Both murder and arson have been committed by AIM -yet they haven’t received so much as a citation for either.

We know that blowing through a stop sign at seventy miles an hour, running over someone in a drunken stupor and killing them can be reduced all the way down to a mere hundred days, and after the first thirty days be allowed to leave jail periodically to “perform community service” if you’re a politician by the name of Bill Janklow, we also know it wouldn’t be that way for either you or I….in addition that the victim Randolph E. Scott’s life was worth only a hundred days to the presiding judge.

We know as well the name Bill Janklow is apparently venerable enough to allow him  to withstand not one, but two, rape accusations and be characterized as a candidate for  foster parent of the year.

Depending on who you are you can apparently take over a government building like the BIA and be financially rewarded for doing so.

Sounds hard to believe? Ask AIM- they did.

If you have “elk medicine” like Dennis Banks you can bed underage girls, impregnate them or do what you will, and that isn’t a problem.

If you aren’t of the AIM leadership or have your head stuck up their ass like Peltier and others then you’d be going to jail for doing likewise.

I wonder, is that what blind justice means?

That’s right Leonard-uncovered evidence that squarely points the finger at those responsible.

An additional bit of information is  that Leonard wasn’t in jail at the time he specifies and wouldn’t be for several more weeks.

“I think it was around that December when I heard that Anna Mae was dead. I was in that jail over there in Canada right around whenever they exposed who she really was and what she died from, but I believe I didn’t hear about it until December. When people say that she tried to contact me, that’s a lie. If she’d have tried to contact me then she would have been with me, and there’s no doubt in my mind because the Indian people knew where I was; certain people knew where I was at. She would not; I mean, I know she didn’t try to contact me. This is something that has to get out, out there: some of these people are just outright lying. I know it because how in the hell, all of a sudden, are they involved in this twenty-five years later? ‘Oh, I know this. I know that.’ Well, they didn’t know shit before and all of a sudden twenty-five years later they know something? All of this information that these people are going around this country with is the same information that we had through our investigation back in the seventies. Right after it was revealed that the body they buried as ‘Jane Doe’ was Anna Mae Aquash we immediately began organizing and trying to get an investigation going, and all of the evidence that we uncovered from that time is what these people are going around the country using.”….Peltier

Yup, all that evidence that has led to two convictions-and that Freudian slip where Peltier says “she would not” in reference to Annie contacting him, and then attempts to correct it by saying what he means is that he knows she didn’t try to contact him.

We can thank Peltier for making that point, and I think we all know what he meant-after all why would Annie attempt to contact a thug who interrogated her at gunpoint and went on to say he would like to subject her to “truth serum”?

We should ask Peltier if the same information that convicted Graham and Arlo is the same information that AIM’s “investigation” uncovered and is being used to secure convictions? If it is why didn’t AIM ever present their findings? Why didn’t they testify during the trials?

Peltier’s disconnect between his brain and his mouth- a defense attorneys worst nightmare.

AIM “investigating” itself would be like Nazi war criminals presiding over the Nuremburg trials.

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Wood Group PSN appointed David Kemp as its new chief financial officer (CFO). David Kemp joins Wood Group’s largest division from Trapoil where he was financial director. He replaces Duncan Skinner who is retiring from the industry.

Sepura PLC announced the appointment of Nigel Gordon Stuart as independent Non-Executive Director with effect from the Company’s forthcoming Annual General Meeting. He is currently Chief Financial Officer of TMF Group. Previously, following six years at McKinsey & Co, he held senior positions with a number of highly successful UK listed businesses, serving as Group Finance Director of London Bridge Software plc and thereafter Xansa plc. He then became Chief Financial Officer of recruitment process outsourcing firm, Alexander Mann Solutions. He also served as a Non-Executive Director of Intec Telecom Systems PLC.

Carr’s Milling Industries PLC confirms that as previously announced, Neil Austin has become Finance Director following the retirement of Ron Wood.

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Hey everyone!

This post is dedicated to a cause that’s really important to me, because it’s extremely unjust that many people in the world go without food, water and shelter, which are essential survival basics, especially compared to more the tangible stuff like iPads and Jeffrey Campbells.

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From today, The Oaktree Foundation is challenging Australians (including you!) to get a feel for what it’s like to live in poverty, and feed yourselves with no more than $2 for five consecutive days. Since 2005, this has been the amount people living in extreme poverty survive on per day, according to the World Bank. Last year, the annual Live Below the Line campaign raised $1.92 million to help eradicate global poverty.

Team donation page for Basil and Lamb

Funds raised from this campaign go directly to schools and teachers in countries such as Cambodia and Papua New Guinea. In 2012, over 50 000 donors contributed to the crusade. This week, from May 6 – 10, my friend Cynthia and her sister are taking the challenge under their team name, Basil and Lamb (which is also the name of their mouth-wateringly good food blog). Please support them on their journey and donate - thanks to participants like them, over $1 million has already been raised this year for this amazing cause.

P.S. While we’re on the subject of goodwill, please consider becoming a member of Amnesty UTS. You don’t have to be a UTS student to join! Like our page on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for more =)

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Slice of Heaven

 May 6th, 2013

3:45 PM

“Here you go, enjoy!” The waiter said as he set down the pie of plain cheese pizza in front of Nate and I before speeding off again.

“Yay!” I said smiling as I grabbed a slice and placed it on my plate before dabbing multiple napkins on the surface of it to absorb the excess grease.

My phone beeped and I unlocked it, as I took a bite of my now mostly grease-free pizza.

I smiled and typed back a reply, ‘ Not soon enough! ‘ 

“Can you please turn that off? You’ve been staring at that thing ever since we got out of school.” Nate said in an annoyed tone, making me look up at him.

“Sorry.” I said sheepishly as I put my phone on my lap and focused my attention on Nate and my pizza.

“So how’s-” Suddenly my phone beeped again, causing Nate to be cut off. He glared at me as I picked up my phone.

“Sorry, sorry!” I said as I looked at the notification. ‘I miss you <3′ the message said, making me smile again. As I was about to type a reply Nate reached over, snatching my phone from my hands.

“Hey!” I said, shocked as I looked at him.

Nate looked at the screen, his eyes widening as he read the messages. “Georgieeee? Dylan would you rather be with your Georgieeee right now than me?” Nate asked as he looked up at me.

“No of course not!” I said as I reached over and placed my hand over his, before trying to grab my phone from his hands. He jerked away, causing a loud harsh noise as his chair scraped against the ground.

“Really? It seems like you do.” He said as he dropped my phone into my outstretched hands.

“George is just some guy that works in the city, we’ve been seeing each other whenever I have to work for my mom.” I said trying to explain, Nate looked over at the kitchen, not meeting my pleading eyes.

“Seeing each other?” What does that even mean?”

“We work together… sorta, it’s complicated.” I said as I sighed, my phone beeped again and I unlocked it without looking at the screen.

“Complicated is a relationship status, unless you and George are in a relationship it should not be complicated.” Nate said loudly, causing people to look up at us.

“Nate you’re causing a scene.” I said through clenched teeth as I looked around at the other customers.

“A scene? Like that’s not what you caused at your birthday when you thought I was cheating on you.” Nate said as he glared at me, his voice getting louder and louder.

“George is nothing!” I said in an equally loud voice, making everybody look up at the two teenagers fighting in the middle of the pizza parlor.

“Well if George is nothing, what am I?” Nate exclaimed as he slammed both his hands down on the table, causing both of our pizza slices to fly off of the table and onto the ground.

“Nate, please…” I pleaded as I lowered my voice.

“No, we need a break. Call me when you sort out this thing with George.” Nate said as he grabbed his bag and walked briskly out of the parlor.

“Miss, you need to clean that up.” A waiter said as I sat with my mouth agape. A break? What did that even mean? I ignored the waiter and gathered my things, walking sluggishly out of the parlor.

Did Nate just break up with me? Suddenly my phone beeped, making me look down at it, ’1 new voicemail from Georgieeee’ it read.

“Am I really nothing to you? I mean, I thought we were getting closer. Goodbye Dylan.”

“Eh-ma-gawd.” I said as my hand flew to my mouth. I must have accidentally called George when I was trying to unlock my phone.

Not only did I manage to get Nate mad at me, but also George. Great Dylan, great.

BURPPPPPP, Dyl

In essence this is a open diary, but anonymous. This will be a way for me to open up my darkest parts out and document my struggle to get off the hook of these things for the benefit of those who struggle along with me in the world and also for my own record, to look back on, and to use further in my struggle.

I believe this is a War I must win, and so here I start, on the war with myself and my desires to sin.

It’s kind of got me wondering though what Antoinette Nora  Claypoole meant when she melodramatically labelled Kuzma and associates the Buffalo Bravado Boys?  And so I took a couple of moments to look up the definition of the word bravado thinking maybe my understanding of it was incorrect.

Below are the definitions I found:

From the Free Online Dictionary-
1.
a. Defiant or swaggering behavior: strove to prevent our courage from turning into bravado.
b. A pretense of courage; a false show of bravery.
2. A disposition toward showy defiance or false expressions of courage.
vaunted display of courage or self-confidence; swagger

From Webster’s-

1
a : blustering swaggering conduct
b : a pretense of bravery
2
: the quality or state of being foolhardy

I fail to see any swagger or bluster in having to “officially” admit a  lie-I’d say it had become a necessity, was something that had become  unavoidable, an attempt to turn the page and add a new coat of paint.

But there’s been a lot of lies over the years in what is referred to as the defense of Peltier -a lot of bluster and swagger on his part.

Like the way he went on about how “his people” know who the “hero” was, know who “fought hard”, how he was “laying down fire”.

But then who can forget Peltier’s taped interview where he stumbles around saying no one was “shot, hit, hurt” where he was shooting?

An implication that he wasn’t “fighting hard” to shoot anyone, just kind of, sort of, aiming in a general direction more for show than anything else while making sure no one was “shot, hit, hurt”.

In a bonafide legitimate fight against a real threat anyone taking that course would be labelled a coward. But then what occurred at Jumping Bull wasn’t a legitimate fight, it was cold blooded murder based on Peltier’s belief the agents were coming to get him for that Wisconsin warrant and the fact that Peltier was the shooter at Jumping Bull is indisputable.

The Mr. X lie was known to be bs for years, and to admit it wasn’t bravado,  amounts to more of a humbled admission with a side dish of crow to force down.

Not long ago I saw actor Peter Coyote on Democracy Now I believe it was where  another reference was made to a stale moldy staple-that being the “old boots” version of why Williams and Coler were looking for Jimmy Eagle-another bs fairytale employed over the years to flesh out the myth.

I’m thinking Kuzma should lay that one to rest as well-update the script so everyone is on the same page, and hopefully avoid further embarrassment for the team- to not do so would be foolhardy.

Now I don’t think the “Buffalo Bravado Boys” are about “showy defiance”, “bluster”, or false expressions of courage and bravery, maybe Claypoole  knows more than we do though, if so maybe she would be willing to share.

Maybe she would be willing to  admit Mr.X and the old boots tale are both lies.

I am in my last week of school. It’s the true homestretch. Last week of high school. Last week of community college. Graduation is right around the corner. People always tell you to enjoy your senior year, and my heart rises up in my chest when I think about the fact that this chapter of my life is almost over. In some ways I wish that I had been a normal high school student, not finishing my AA right now, with all high school friends, and worrying about college or something of that nature. But honestly, I can’t tell you the last time I had an actual conversation or hung out with a high schooler [that isn't my brother]. Ha.

Several years ago, when I was a sophomore or freshman or something, I got an ipod touch. I was angry with my parents or something that day, so I started a countdown on there that said “___ days til graduation.” If ever I was frustrated I would yell in my family’s face, “[x-amount] of days until I graduate!” I would look at the countdown all of the time, and just dream about the adventures I would go on, what college would be like, or just how much fun I’d have when I could finally move out. Ouch. Well, I still have that countdown. It’s down to twelve days. I remember when that number was over a thousand, and my finals will be over long before that number.

I finally stopped looking at the countdown so often (I guess I realized that I should enjoy this time), but a few months ago I rediscovered it. It made me nearly burst into tears. How is it that I took all of those days for granted? How is it that I couldn’t wait to jump into the next chapter of my life and miss high school? How did that time pass by so quickly? It seems like just yesterday that I was pretending to be in high school, just so that I could go on a missions trip to Mexico with my best friend. (yeah, oops, I did that) And just like that it’s done. I don’t know, ha, I am being too nostalgic right now.

Well here I am. At the end of one major chapter of my life, and on to the next. As I am about to leave one chapter behind, the excitement and anxiousness of the next chapter covers up all fear and sadness. I have accomplished so much in the four years that I have been in high school. I have learned so much. And I am feeling ready to move on.

Do you know how hard it is to type that last line?! It’s hard to move on into the unknown! But I feel like I’m ready and prepared.

SO WHAT IS NEXT?! Well. On Thursday I had a pretty exciting interview. I applied to go on the Passport trip to Swaziland for four months….. which leaves in January. The interview went swimmingly, and now it’s two weeks of praying and waiting. I can’t wait to find out if this is the next step that the Lord is guiding me towards. Please be in prayer over this with me. Let HIS will be done.

In the meantime, my job at the Salvation Army has been such a blessing. I will continue working there full time this summer, and this autumn (not sure if it’ll be full time then still) and perhaps a coffee shop or something as well. I have the next eight months to enjoy and work and love the people right here in my home town.

I am so excited to see what adventures this next chapter of my life will hold.