"Beneath the clothes, we find a man and beneath the man, we find his... nucleus."
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Our Sunday drive around Wasilla, Hatcher's Pass, and Knik, AK!
A few sundays ago we decided to go for a drive and explore more of this magnificent state! We drove high up to see an awesome view of the Anchorage area and then ventured to the Palmer and Wasilla area, which is less than an hour away from Anchorage. From there we went to Hatcher's Pass, an old mine, which was closed because it is too snowy and early in the year! So we continued on and explored around the Knik area and ate our lunch next to Knik lake- it was a lovely day (even if we did get lost at one point)!
Hello everyone! We are Kent and Jenny Shirley and we have been married for almost three years AND LOVE being married! We just moved to Beaverton, Oregon, where Kent is going to Portland Community College and working towards an Associates in Building Construction Technology. His ultimate dream is to flip houses and mine is to be a Mom while being paid to read children's and young adult novels. (We are working towards these dreams!) Currently I am working at Babies R Us and becoming increasingly baby- hungry! We have two adorable, crazy kitties named Merlin and Hermione and think they are the cutest cats ever! We love to go for drives and outings, watch Scrubs, The Office, and CSI: New York, play games, go out for ice cream and Taco Bell, and snuggle on our loveseat.
Any of Robin McKinley's novels (Beauty, Deerskin, Rose Daughter, The Hero and the Crown, Spindle's End, etc.)
Any of Lois Lowry's novels (The Giver, Number the Stars, Gathering Blue, etc.)
The Lord of the Rings: J.R.R. Tolkien
Any of Jane Austen's novels (especially Pride and Prejudice & Sense and Sensibility!)
The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
Treasure Island: Robert Louis Stevenson
The Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander
The Lost Years of Merlin series by T.A. Barron
Any of William Shakespeare's comedies, tragedies, or romances (My favorites are Hamlet, The Winter's Tale, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Much Ado About Nothing)
The Scarlet Letter: Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Catcher in the Rye: J.D. Salinger
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Mark Twain
Man's Search For Meaning: Viktor Frankl
The Screwtape Letters: C.S. Lewis
Kent with his lightsaber happy to smite the likewise happy Jenny
Kent's cell phone's camera has a crack on its lense that leaves a bar of light on every picture- so THAT is how we managed this one!
One of Jenny's favorite quotes
"It isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don't worry. I say that to myself every morning. It will all work out. Put your trust in God, and move forward with faith and confidence in the future.The Lord will not forsake us He will not forsake us. If we will put our trust in Him, if we will pray to Him if we will live worthy of his blessings, He will hear our prayers." ~President Gordon B. Hinckley
C.S. Lewis on Prayer
"Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete person. Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine. In it God shows Himself to us. That He answers prayers is a corollary- not necessarily the most important one- from that revelation. What He does is learned from what He is."
"Now the disquieting thing is not simply that we skimp and begrudge the duty of prayer. The really disquieting thing is it should have to be numbered among duties at all . . . If we were perfected, prayer would not be a duty, it would be a delight. Some day please God, it will be . . . The very activities for which we were created are, while we live on earth. variously impeded: by evil in ourselves or in others. Not to practice them is to abandon our humanity. To practice them spontaneously and delightfully is not yet possible . . . I must say my prayers to-day whether I feel devout or not . . ."
1 comment:
Alaska...the true "Wiiiild America". I'd love to see it! Too bad you all will be in Georgia in the next few months.
But I'll see it with a 'glass half-full' attitude', because you guys will then live closer to us!
Enjoy the cool weather. Georgian summers are a bit different than Alaskan.
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