for shelb

i found this in the text for one of my classes and wanted to post it for your enjoyment.

"But to what extent are intimate relationships truly private? Consider these examples:

"Late at night, a couple in your apartment building have a series of loud, physical confrontations--leaving you and your neighbors feeling unsafe and taking the police away from handling other crimes.

"Throughout the school year, a few of your child's classmates are upset over their parents' arguments and imminent divorces; these children distract the teacher, disrupt the class, and reduce the quality of their education.

"A dorm mate of yours, despondent because he is unable to find a steady girlfriend, gets drunk, drives through town, and accidentally kills a pedestrian.

"Because of a nasty divorce, a coworker is less effective at work, fails to give you the information you need to do your job until the last minute, and fores you and your colleagues to pick up the slack.

"Or, more optimistically, your happy neighbors might live longer and be less of a burden on the health care system; or they might raise children who finish their schooling rather than drop out and engage in petty crimes; or they might generate a higher income and thus pay more taxes than they would if they were divorced, thus contributing to the greater good.

"Added up over countless children, countless relationships, and and countless transitions between relationships, effects such as these accumulate, helping us to see that intimate relationships are inextricably woven into the fabric--and welfare--of our society."

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"Intimate relationships, in short, are fundamental to who we are as humans and pervasive in their effects on us and those around us. no one lives a life untouched by intimacy."

oh, gcon.

"For the next six months your conference edition of the Ensign should stand next to your standard works and be referred to frequently. As my dear friend and brother [President] Harold B. Lee said, 'We should let these conference addresses be the guide to our walk and talk during the next months. These are the important matters the Lord sees fit to reveal to this people in this day.'"

-Ezra TB (Ensign, May 1988, p. 84)

"He knows why he inspired the other bretheren who have talked in this conference to say what they have said. It is our high privilege to hear, through these men, what the Lord would say if he were here. If we do not agree with what they say, it is because we are out of harmony with the Spirit of the Lord."

-Marion G. Romney (October 1950, pp. 126-27)

"We have heard enough already, that if we can just remember half of what we have heard and take it back to our stakes and wards, they will be enriched because of these conference sessions."

-Legrand Richards (April 1945)

"No text nor volume outside of the standard works of the Church should have such a prominent place on your personal library shelves, not because of their rhetorical excellence, nor the elecquence of delivery, but for the conent which points the way to eternal life."

-Spencer W. Kimball (Teachings of SWK 68-05)

Ahh.

Conference. Holy cow. I know. It was a spiritual blast for everyone within earshot.

Awhile back bro requested that we go to conference for a reunion when he got back. And so we did! We went up the Saturday night, slept (actually not), and attended the Sunday morning session. SO POWERFUL. It was amazing!

I just feel so grateful to be a part of the restored church--everything is so clear and fits together perfectly. I went into this years' round of conference supposing that every speaker was speaking directly to me, and trying to pay attention to my feelings and specific goals I needed to make or actions I needed to make. I marked actions with an arrow, and it's been so neat to go back and see all those little arrows and know the Lord blessed me with ideas of things to do to draw closer to Him and His Son. It's true. The church is true. I know it!

My boss sent me this clip and I've just been loving it. Who doesn't love Elder Holland? But Elder Holland throwing down? A personal favorite from conference: "Don't delay. It's getting late. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen." BOOM! ha ha we rewound that part. Holy powerhouse. He doesn't worry about just saying it like it is. So watch him just go al grano at Harvard. he's so concise in developing "our most distinguishing feature in our faith"!

"That is our first testimony, of Jesus Christ as the literal son of God, of the merciful and redeeming gospel He brought from the Father to earth to share with all of God's children, and the church Christ established to be the vehicle for communicating those truths and those ordinances.

"But our next testimony is that after Christ's ascension, and with the death of those early apostles, the church and its divinely ordained succession of priesthood authority was lost, taken, removed from the earth. So when ensued what a millennium and a half of opposing Paul's hope that there would be a unity of the faith and a knowledge of the Son of God.

"What brings me to you today is not a message of reformation but of restoration. The restoration of that church Christ established by His hand in that meridian of time, and which He has reestablished by His hand in the present time."

for myk

this one's for you sista. :)

"TE AMO!!!" hahaha.

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refer to below title.

i'm posting this only because i feel strongly about it.

it's a one time watch.

proceed with caution.

heart wrenching

"You will have all kinds of trials to pass through. And it is quite as necessary that you be tried as it was for Abraham and other men of God...and God will feel after you, and He will take hold of you and wrench your very heartstrings, and if you cannot stand it, you will not be fit for an inheritance in the celestial kingdom of God."

-Joseph Smith

smile

the other day i was walking around campus, plugged in, listening to some tunes. i had a really neat moment of revelash, amigos. this song came on, heima, by sigur, and i smiled a little bit. as i did, i could hear the song better. you know what i'm sayin? when you do something and your headphones get adjusted and you can hear more clearly? well, call me loca, but in that moment i realized that the more i smiiiiiiile and am happy, the easier it is to hear. not just to hear heima, but to hear the suavecito impresiones del espiritu. so true. try it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giZVvo4ZQsQ

this one's for your enjoyment. sooooo beautiful.

http://youtu.be/VF24eQFe3hc

post-it dump

i once had a wise teacher who told us he would have a "planner dump" every six weeks. he'd transfer all the notes, quotes, and things worth remembering into some place a little more permanent.

well, i feel like i've got something sorta similar going on with these scattered scribbles. it's been like...umm like 20 months comin. ha. we'll talk again in just shy of two years, i guess.

joshin.

here you have it, my post-it dump:

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• i still have promises to keep and miles to go before i sleep

• "we are ordinary people who must accomplish and extraordinary work." -bednar.

• Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind.

• youtube jen blosil. immediately.

• "Whoever persuaded all of us that allowing emotion to fill the voice, eyes, and face is unmanly is out of touch with the workings of a loving heart. Beyond any promise of protection, of health, or language ease, in the room last Tuesday night was the undeniable force that you are deeply loved, Elder Christensen, by the folks that matter. Surely that alone will persuade you to fall out of bed early every morning to be worthy of the confidence and blessings that are yours."

• to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet’s voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail. -William Faulkner

• “Whatever our particular fields of scholarship, the real test is individual discipleship, not scholarship. But how good it is when these two can company together, blending meekness with brightness and articulateness with righteousness. Such outcomes only occur, however, when there is commitment bordering on consecration.” - A. Maxwell

• My definition of success is “being empowered to do what [you] previously thought was impossible and then to keep progressing far beyond anything previously attained” (Osguthorpe & Osguthorpe, 2008).

• Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire.

• 99.100% of the time the answer that you need is in the counsel of your own letter.

• 1 sam 13

• you may as well go suck eggs

• Just open your eyes and expect the best. It will be yours.

• If you listen to all these songs you will be pumped on life. I promise. Here it is... Cage: I Never Knew You. Neon Trees: Animal. The Tallest Man On Earth: Burden Of Tomorrow. The Middle East: Blood. If These Trees Could Talk: Smoke Stacks. Crystal Castles: Alice Practice. Super Mash Bros: I Bleed Purple & Gold. The Avett Brothers: Tin Man. Andrew Bird: Sectionate Cit

ah. feels good. cohesion. i'll go ahead and get rid of the post-its, thank you very much.