My Spring Break in Pictures, more to come:
Amy’s amazing home in Palm Desert… heaven.
Citizen Cope concert, it’s a negative but the concert was very positive.
Newport Beach, loves it.
Oh The Amazing Getty!
The Getty!
The Getty!
Avila Beach on my Birthday.
My LA trip was amazing!
First day was the Getty and then Newport Beach for the night,
Next day we layed [...]
It’s the morning of March 27th and I am drinking a glass of Martinelli’s for breakfast. My birthday was an entirely wonderful day, although anticlimactic for the special occasion. It consisted of the following, in this order:
Breakfast Burrito
Nap
Rob & Big
Beach
Rob & Big
Opening of the Mail (which only contained 1 birthday envelope from my grandma, which [...]
THIS IS A BIRTHDAY POST!
It’s my insignificant birthday today. I’m 19 and I have 2 honest things to confess:
I wanted to be 18 forever.
and
My birthday feels like it was yesterday.
BUT IT’S OKAY
I’m still very happy it’s my b-day and all I really want to do right now is hop in the shower and then [...]
Last night around 10:13 pm I arrived at a friends house to visit… we talked about 8th grade and watched the end of No Country For Old Men and at 11:37, upon leaving, we discovered that my car had been broken into.
It really isn’t a big deal at all, none of the windows were broken [...]
I’M HOOOME! For the weekend, it’s great. My dad and sis fly in from Boston this afternoon (should be here really soon, actually) But right now Rashell is picking me up and I CAN’T WAIT to see that girl…. honestly, I’m jumping around right now and I’m going to have to make [...]
” There is one story in particularly that I’d like to leave you with today – a story I told when I had the great honor of speaking on Dr. King’s birthday at his home church, Ebenezer Baptist, in Atlanta.
There is a young, twenty-three year old white woman named Ashley Baia who organized [...]
Today a couple is celebrating their 83rd wedding anniversary, the longest a couple has ever been married in the entire world. “They don’t have a magic formula to explain the success of their marriage. They just took seriously what they said to each other when they stood at the altar. “You take your vows, for [...]
Written at 6 pm:
First of all, I know that the post below was quite boring, although entirely interesting. Was it easy yo tell that Nacirema is American backwards?…I just found it enlightening to read about ones own culture from the perspective of a cultural anthropologist. What we see as normal and every-day is actually pretty [...]
BODY RITUAL AMONG THE NACIREMA
Horace Miner
From Horace Miner, “Body Ritual among the Nacirema.” Reproduced by permission of the American Anthropological Association from The American Anthropologist, vol. 58 (1956), pp. 503-507.
Most cultures exhibit a particular configuration or style. A single value or pat-
tern of perceiving the world often leaves its stamp on several institutions in the
society. [...]
Honestly, I dont really know what to write today. I just feel like I need to begin and hope that I go somewhere with it, but I feel at a loss…
“I’m not confused, I’m just well mixed.”
“Yes, if there is such a thing as one, I am one. — People like me are aware [...]
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