morse-coder

And every once in a while, I feel this desperate yearning for the past. Recently, it's been a very recent past. Right now, it's for a moderately distant past.   7th grade. Streamwatch. Simplicity. Easy boy problems. Easy break-ups. But then I don't want to lose what I have now. Caring enough about each other to make those break-ups hard. The desire to fight for friendships that begin to fade and stumble. Those people who I can talk to no matter what. And then, think about what I was missing, I don't miss the past at all. I look back on it fondly nostalgically and sometimes bitterly. But I don't miss it, because I grow from m

I have been incredibly immersed in Star Trek: The Original Series the past few days.  So, naturally, today I found myself on Leonard Nimoy's twitter (http://twitter.com/TheRealNimoy/).  His tweets are so...compassionate, I don't know.  Thoughtful.  I found this lovely quote, I'll put it in its own paragraph in the hope that, if you're just skimming this, you'll see it: "Is there anything as valuable as family and friends? Hold them close. Cherish and honor them." It's wonderful that he tweeted it (is that the phrase? "Tweeted?" I'm not terribly familiar with Twitter), it just makes you stop and think for a bit.  There are also a bunch of qu

Alright, so there are these two lovely personalities on Youtube, Hank and John Green, and together they make the Vlogbrothers.  I love their videos, because they make me laugh almost every video.  Even when they don't make me laugh, though, they make me stop and /think/.  Hank is into science and math and that realm of life, which is freaking awesome (the number of times I think of Mr. Garman watching those videos...), and then John is into English (and History, but history is, like, everything).  They just make you stop and think about what you're watching, what has been done in the past, what is happening now, and...It's a great experience