We Barter With Hate....

Brothers and Sisters
Why are we bickering?
All this harassment
Our witness is flickering
Can we just respect each other?
Rather we just hide and cover
Treading so softly
And acting out graces
We barter with hate
But never to faces
Instead of thinking best of others
Trying to stab our sisters and brothers.
Imagine one moment
If you'd stop complaining,
The results of a church
Without stresses and straining......

Snow

Snow, it keeps on coming......

Alone at home, I sit and wait
But my plans it does frustrate

It's beauty is amazing,
With storms of violent peacefulness
Entrancing those who gaze
The encapsulating glaze of glass
Is nature's photograph

I long to sled
I want to play
I yearn to laugh and sing.
The joy that friends and fellowship
Doth always seem to bring

But the winter isn't over
It's only halfway through.
It isn't that it's colder,
But it keeps keeping me from you.

Hey, look, I have a blog....

I admit it, I forgot I have a blog...... It was lost in the whirlwind of the holidays, the procrastination of winter break, and the general din of life. Thankfully, I never ceased taking photos. I stopped editing them though, which leaves me with a task on par with fitting an elephant through the eye of a needle. Lord-willing, I will be able to squeeze some time out each week and update my blog with a post and at least a few pictures.

As I'm sure all six of you are wondering, my holidays were great :P Thanksgiving at the Burgs was amazing. An equally entertaining Christmas was spent at my Uncle's Christmas Eve (The funniest game of Apples to Apples ever), followed by a wonderfully closed Christmas morning with just my family. A trip to DC, where my Grandparents live, completed the festivities.

And so ends a wonderful year.....

2010, do you say it as twenty-ten, or as two-thousand-ten? I'm still not sure. With the new year, I can look back and see the abundant ways God has shaped my life. At the beginning of 2009, I truly lacked goals. This is something I think God changed in me, I have an idea of what I want to do, and the way the Lord is leading. It's just a matter of being patient, which can be exceptionally trying sometimes. He's also brought several new friends into my life, all of whom are completely encouraging and exceptionally inspiring.

Friday was my 18th birthday. I am now an adult, full of wisdom(I know, you're like "....What?" JK) and "legally" responsible. I have a new job that I love and I am working on graduation plans with my homeschool group. It's exciting, yet it leaves me wondering about the future.

I am working on a batch of photos and they should be up this week. Feel free to visit my flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/intelligentdesigninc/
and leave a few comments.

Also, due to the inspiration and encouragement of a friend ;) I may try my hand at some poetry in the near future. Hopefully you'll be able to stomach it, and continue to visit my page.

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. "
Friedrich Nietzsche

That's it for now,
Erik

New Pictures - New Method

Ok, so after uploading pictures for my last post, I realized that Blogger doesn't do anything good for the photos uploaded through the site, So I'm going to repost some pics and add a few new ones, they link to my flickr page if you want to leave comments on specific pictures, or just to have a look around.
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October Fun

So, despite the cold, damp weather, today has been pretty fun! Very interesting discussion at co-op about medieval views on chastity(and we had a visitor, talk about the wrong conversation to join :P).

Afterward, we had a awesome walnut fight(few bruises to remember it).

I've decided to take my camera with me EVERYWHERE, as I'm tired of seeing something and not being able to immortalize it. I just realized on Wednesday, while hiking, that I'd been burnt out. Now, with a renewed sense of purpose I hope to make the most of this wonderful season. Old Rag and Senior pics are coming up soon, and I'm glad of it!

Hopefully once I get my last midterm out of the way, life will settle down a little.

I will try and post pics of White Oak once I'm done processing them(I took 400 pics).

"Conceptual Inertia: If you think big enough, you'll never have to do it. "

Think about it :D
Erik

Por Fin!!!

Finally, after having this blog for almost a year, I have decided to actually makes use of it. My writing style will be absolutely lacking, and my thoughts will be completely garbled. I apologize in advance for these shortcomings. Hopefully, this experience will help me with improve upon both of these, and you may draw some sort of (sick) amusement from this.

I will update when I can, which isn't often, due to classes, work, and life in general.

I should begin by introducing myself, I am Erik, if you're visiting my blog it's probably case you already know me. I'm typing this from the library in Germanna. This will more than likely be the spot I blog the most from, as I have an hour between my classes on Tuesday and Thursday. When not busy with obligations of a teenager-almost-adult, I LOVE hiking, playing sports with friends, photography, reading, listening to music, playing bass, working out, and hanging with my friends. I'm hoping to get into running soon, as well. I enjoy working with computers and hope to go to Virginia Tech and major in Computer Science.

I'm ashamed to admit that the first two weeks of October have managed to fly by without me taking the time to truly appreciate the wonderfully crisp weather, the beautiful clouds, or to capture the brilliant colors of fall in a photograph. Hopefully this will be corrected soon, I have a hiking trip tomorrow to White Oak, then a trip up Old Rag on Saturday morning. These should give me plenty of chances to accomplish this, though you can never do it enough.

A tip from me to you, remember to plug your laptop in. Otherwise, you, like me, will find yourself most of the way through an inspired blog post and have to retype the entire thing :P

Hmmm, that's about it for now.

Erik


"By words we learn thoughts, and by thoughts we learn life."
- Jean Baptiste Girard