My Penelope is getting big.
Friday, May 2, 2014
Sunday, April 27, 2014
About Sewol: South Korean ferry disaster
I just wanted to take a minute to talk about the tremendous grief people are experiencing in that small country on the other side of the world.
A lot of the time we are desensitized when it comes to the tragedies of others. Especially if they happen very far away from us to people we don't know. I don't know anyone related to this tragedy. I don't even really know anyone Korean. But I do know that I feel a very serious sadness setting itself uncomfortably over my shoulders at odd hours of the day. I wonder if its possible that so many hearts are feeling so much pain, that I can feel it too just because I'm a part of this world. My heart literally hurts too, and it reminds me that we are all connected, even if we aren't.
I was out to dinner last night surrounded by people jovially dancing to music, drinking wine and enjoying their Saturday night. I sat there wondering how it was possible that they couldn't feel it too. That these peoples lives were completely unaffected while literally thousands of people in this same world are grieving to pain that will never ever end. Hundreds of children/teenagers were on that ship. Sons, daughters, brothers, sisters and friends that will never go to college.
They will never travel and get to know the world.
They will never have children or get married or maybe even experience a first love.
Like hundreds of Peter Pans, these kids will never grow up.
The difference is they never got to learn to fly.
And these Lost Boys all had fathers and mothers calling them home.
It is the saddest thing.
I saw the image of a class room of empty desks where flowers sit to honor the student who sat there a little over a week ago. I imagined the kids who sat there and how they would talk everyday when they came to school. I could picture them laughing or arguing or sitting quietly, listening to their teachers. I think of families sitting in their quiet houses, trying to wrap their heads around the idea that they're supposed to continue without their children. Right now...someone, right now...hundreds of them are feeling it. Right this second is the worst moment in their lives.
Is it okay that we're here not feeling it too?
How is it that our world is right side up while theirs is upside down?
For the sake of fairness, I'll promise to feel the echo as it carries all their sadness
And I hope that anyone who reads this, takes a moment to feel it too.
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My pretend site
This is the mock up of my possible website. I bow down happily to any and every web designer out there. I'm lucky I have any hair left after the amount of time I spend solving issues on this puppy. I'm dreading trying to take it a step further to make it into a functioning website. After all was said and done though, I was satisfied with my efforts. It was even maybe kind of fun. (When it wasn't completely frustrating.
I tried.
I spent hours on adobe illustrator trying to figure out how to create a possible logo for a possible web site I had to learn how to design. This is sadly all I could come up with so far. My name Lauren Ashley in front of a cartoony icon of aperture. I learned something new.
The saddest thing.
My uncle Danny passed away suddenly a little over a week ago. This is a photo of my disabled mother who suffered a stroke six years ago crying with my grandmother (90 years old). I've never known what it looked like for a mother to lose a child. It was the saddest thing I've ever seen.
Monday, March 31, 2014
Saturday, March 29, 2014
Sunday, March 23, 2014
Photo Day 23
Caught up finally and back to my real camera. I guess I failed the whole "I'll take other photos than my dogs, but I guess my life isn't that interesting lately. They're my main entertainment this passed month. I hope I didn't bore all of you.
Here are my demons:
Here are my demons:
Day 17
I don't really like the concept of selfies--but sometimes I'll use my phone as a mirror,
like here: to fix my new Capitals hat.
Day 15
My friends think I'm weird for trying to learn different languages that have literally
no connection to me.
Day 11
Visited Chinatown in DC and bought some Korean soju.
I also bought chopstick and a mini Buddha.
Do you know how hard it is to find Soju? Very hard.
Photo update
I haven't been updating this blog because my computer battery crapped out and them my puppy ate my charger. I wasn't able to get to a MAC store until I was in DC over the weekend so I have been taking photo's with my phone (because I couldn't upload and edit photos on my computer). $300 at the MAC store later (I had to buy two chargers and a new battery+have it installed). I'll upload all of the days now. Anyhow, terrible luck this semester. This is what Penny did:
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Photo: Day 8
The person sitting next to me, handed this to me after opening his fortune. If only there wasn't a typo.
Saturday, March 8, 2014
Friday, March 7, 2014
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Photo: Day 3
This is Penelopers again. I'll try to steer away from my animals but we've already had her two weeks and she's getting HUGE. I wanted to document her size from this age to when she's fully grown.
Photo Day: 2
This is my five year old Boxer Sully. This is my "In case you had a bad day" photo from the other day--I couldn't not laugh at it, so I hope you enjoy.
Sorry Folks!
I did NOT forget about this or Twitter. My computer randomly broke and has been down the passed two days. For some reason it won't stay and recognize a certain time/date, won't verify any websites so they only show white pages with links that don't make sense, won't charge so if someone hits the charger it immediately dies and finally it stopped all of my photo-editing programs from working because it wouldn't recognize the internet as safe anymore. Gahhh it's frustrating. I'm meaning to take it to the mac store to get it checked out but the closest one is an hour and a half away. I finally got it so websites are showing up normally as of five minutes ago, so we'll see how long that lasts. In the mean time I'll upload the photo's I've been taking for the passed three days for the 28 day challenge.
My luck is awful this semester.
My luck is awful this semester.
Sunday, March 2, 2014
28 Day Photo Challenge: Day 1
Day 1: Penelope
This is my new puppy Penny. She's a ten week old Cane Corse (Italian Mastiff) and she is just about the cutest thing I've ever seen. We've had her about a week and took about that long to name her. She's supposed to grow to be about 115 pounds but for now she's a tiny little thing who specializes in stealing shoes and answers to "Penny is a freeloader." (BigBangTheory)
I'm going to come right out and say she along with my 5 year old boxer may be a main subject for this challenge but I'll work to vary it up.
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Photos
I haven't updated this much because I was unsure of how to use this blog space. My areas of interest are travel, photography and writing. Since there isn't much I can't do with this space, I think I'll post things about each. These are some photos I have done recently for projects. I thought I'd share a few.
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