Reprieve

I normally try to live my life according to two very general rules: 

1. Don't complain.

2. Don't make excuses.

However, I'm going to break the second rule today, simply because I feel the need to justify myself for my terrible organization and (apparent) inability to write blog posts, let alone get out and take photos. I say this at the risk of sounding like a broken record (and breaking another rule: Don't use clichés when writing.), because it seems that all of my blog posts that I've found the time to write recently simply reiterate how perpetually busy I am. (Which seems to break all three of my aforementioned rules in one go.) But I'm going to allow myself to break my rule about excuses this time simply because it also explains the photos below. I'll start with my birthday (a milestone), the weekend after my birthday where I got to celebrate it with friends, which leads me to midterms, which bled into spring break, and then initiation, and then shooting with Ash, then TEDxFurmanU, and now here we are. (And in that spiel I just broke another rule: Don't write run-on sentences.)

Anywho, here are photos from the joint birthday celebration that I had with the one and only Lexie, but rest easy, friends: more will come on that other insanity (spring break, TEDx, etc., etc.) soon! (And Wednesdays, I think, call for fun photos.)

And, since it's hump day, I'll leave you folks with a quote because it's vaguely applicable but mostly because Marilynne Robinson is fantastic:

“I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so beautiful that I hate to think they will be extinguished when I am. Well, but again, this life has its own mortal loveliness. And memory is not strictly mortal in its nature, either. It is a strange thing, after all, to be able to return to a moment, when it can hardly be said to have any reality at all, even in its passing. A moment is such a slight thing. I mean, that its abiding is a most gracious reprieve.” 

--Marylinne Robinson, Gilead