Girls Just Want To Have FUN!!!

This is a brief bio for those of you who've really been wanting to get inside my head! It is short, but I can't reveal everything all at once...I would lose all of my mystery! Here goes....

Last books read: Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Heavenly Man, Principles of Economics, The AWAKE Project: Uniting Against the African Aids Crisis
(Sept. '05)

Favorite song changes daily/hourly: Tiny Dancer

Favorite brother: Josh

Favorite food: my mom's homecooking--especially pecan meatballs (clearly vegetarian)

Favorite joke: the one Ezra tells about the golf balls....

Projects: Organizing big events involving the arts, starting a university for the emerging culture

Pastime: being with Jesus (I'm a lovesick worshipper....)

Best locations: Amsterdam, China; Almaty, Kazakhstan, traveling the silk road, Europe is my home away from home. I think I could live anywhere. Orlando, FL. and Seattle, WA have stolen my heart, though if I'm ever in Orlando it won't be for years! I will probably live in both of them for a short time someday. Staying in the mountains of Northwest China and riding horses to the waterfalls, basking in the mystery of created things. words do not describe....

Guilty pleasure: staying up late in my room

Secret pleasure: studying

Childhood pleasure: ballet class and my cousin Katie

College pleasure: Dance classes at Calvin, Cornerstone internship for worship and the arts

Creative outlet: . drawing, painting, jewelry, dance

Hometown: Stevensville, MI less than 10 miles from one of the top 10 family beaches in the nation! beautiful lake MI. jetskis/watersports/aww yeah...

What makes me smile: You love me!

What makes my cry: poverty, mindlessness, apathy,

Favorite singer: Clearly--it must be myself since I listen to myself sing all the time.

Quotable life verse: Song of Solomon 8:7 "Many waters cannot quench the flame of love. Rivers cannot overwhelm it. If a man tried to buy it with everything he owned, he could not do it."

Reading

1. Bridal Intercession
2. The Divine Romance (not to be confused with the Sacred Romance)
3. What's So Amazing About Grace (Philip Yancey)
4. Shout it From the Housetops.
5. The Message
6. Is This Really You, God?
7. At the Crossings
8. Blue Like Jazz

Seattle Skyline

I truly am a city girl...smiling at heart and fully alive whenever I see the buzz of people all of whom are different than me--all living their own lives...making up their own culture--culture that creates an atmosphere of a city.  Toronto. Orlando. Seattle. Paris. Tokyo--they all have their similarities.  They all have differences. Each one calls my heart right out of my chest as I connect with each different person I see--young, old, conventional, scary, smiling, or tough.  I love every single one.  If they're drunk or homeless, rich, snooty, or mean I love them all the more.  If they're alone or together, working, reading, talking, eating, or partying--I want to talk to every single one (though time does not allow). I see other people taking in the sights or doing their own thing and I wonder if anyone else is impacted greatly at all by the culture of this city--it's individual needs...it's greatness.  I wonder who's in charge of this city and should I get a Public Administration degree so I could come back someday and help make a difference here.  Should I go and stand up in the CN Tower or the Space Needle again and overlook a city desperately loved by God, uniquely imprinted and marked by man.  If I stayed 10 years, would it be enough to make a difference?  I love this place (all of them collectively).  My heart stays behind everytime.  Souls.  Beautiful souls.  Amazing people--loved by God.  Unique in culture.  The people draw me back....

Until tomorrow...

I will wait until tomorrow