Happy Love Day

love, the Dingo

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... re-reading some of my blog entries (do people do that?), I found this quote posted almost a year ago:

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket - safe, dark, motionless, airless - it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell." (emphasis added)

- CS Lewis, The Four Loves

Have I told you how much I love C.S. Lewis and his wonderful mind? Just tonight, I came across this one:

"There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right then, have it your way.'"

CS Lewis
found here

I try to be in the former group, but can probably-too-often be found in the latter group.

Awesome Quote

I think I've posted this on here before, but it crossed my mind this morning so I decided to look it up and post it (again):

"No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. After all, you find out the strength of the German army by fighting against it, not by giving in. You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down. A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in. We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because he was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means--the only complete realist."

- C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

New Blog

In an effort to promote our fundraising efforts, Katie and I have created a new blog. I hope you'll visit it often to see what we're up to and to help us raise money. Please feel free to spread the word to everyone you know! (:

My New Adventure

Just this morning, I signed up to walk with the Susan G. Komen 3-day 60-mile Breast Cancer walk in San Diego this coming November. In order for me to participate, I need to raise $2,300.

My dad's father passed away because of cancer, and his mother is a breast cancer survivor. I love that I'm able to help this way and am really looking forward to it.

If you're able to donate (any, absolutely any amount is welcome!) please click here and donate* under my name - Eden Anderson - . I'm on the team "grads for girls."

Also, if you're interested in joining the team and walking with us, let me know.

For more information about the program, click here.

To answer the question about where donations go, the website says:
Net proceeds from the Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure™ fund innovative global breast cancer research and local community programs supporting education, screening and treatment. Every major advance in the fight against breast cancer in the last 27 years has been impacted by a Susan G. Komen for the Cure® grant. For more information about Komen for the Cure, breast health or breast cancer, visit http://www.komen.org/ or call 1.877 GO KOMEN.

For answers to more questions, click here.

I've also put a link in the left sidebar for donations.

Thank you!!!

*All donations are tax-deductible.

First One In... Last One Out...

This morning I came to my computer lab early so I could finish some assignments that were due today.

Tonight I stayed late so I could finish a homework assignment for Wednesday.

Though I love the quiet time when no one else is around... I dislike that I've been on campus for 14 hours, spending half of that time sitting at this desk.

Ugh.

I'm going home.

I found the picture when I image-searched
"long days" on google. I like it.

Motivating... Inspiring... etc.

I love this:

thanks for sharing Bess!