tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78511881106432046712024-02-07T18:52:05.161-08:00how i liveASHLEE GREENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17123251045388766216noreply@blogger.comBlogger471125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7851188110643204671.post-67414873206553814782015-04-03T10:35:00.001-07:002015-04-03T10:35:48.188-07:0052 lists - week 18: ways i am energized<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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ASHLEE GREENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17123251045388766216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7851188110643204671.post-53126320034242114182015-04-01T12:38:00.000-07:002015-04-01T12:41:02.929-07:00words of wisdom wednesday<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">"manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">if you have that awareness, you have good manners,</span></div>
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i was very amused by the news item this week</div>
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about the mother who reached out via facebook</div>
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as it happens, i had a similar experience.</div>
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we took the young women in our ward to see Cinderella</div>
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and i was absolutely horrified</div>
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by the movie theater etiquette of many of our young women.</div>
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horrified.</div>
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sorry to anyone who was in that theatre.</div>
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i was just as annoyed as you.</div>
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ASHLEE GREENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17123251045388766216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7851188110643204671.post-81666061473018872802015-03-27T19:00:00.000-07:002015-03-30T08:44:13.511-07:0052 lists - week 17: things i hate that most people like<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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ASHLEE GREENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17123251045388766216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7851188110643204671.post-75432190283223187672015-03-25T11:22:00.000-07:002015-03-25T11:22:49.605-07:00words of wisdom wednesday<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“Belonging is the innate human desire to be part of something larger than us. Because this yearning is so primal, we often try to acquire it by fitting in and by seeking approval, which are not only hollow substitutes for belonging, but often barriers to it. Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead</i></span></div>
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ASHLEE GREENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17123251045388766216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7851188110643204671.post-88915445088368283722015-03-22T23:00:00.000-07:002015-03-23T11:55:14.981-07:00weekly happy list (2 weeks)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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- lunch date with regina. just what i needed. i almost forgot how fulfilling and clarifying it is to have a good old fashioned girl-talk.</div>
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- new cinderella movie soundtrack. it's enchanting. </div>
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- newsies on stage in san francisco. it was as amazing as i hoped it would be. </div>
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- newsies broadway soundtrack. </div>
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- finally glitterized my chucks. red. now i just need a white/silver pair.</div>
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- finally got to wear my boden plate-print skirt and i love it more than i can say.</div>
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- fresh nail polish on fingers and toes. </div>
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- cinderella<a href="http://www.kohls.com/product/prd-2053961/disneys-cinderella-a-collection-by-lc-lauren-conrad-tulle-skirt-womens.jsp"> castle skirt</a></div>
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- finally watched baz luhrmann's "the great gatsby" - i enjoyed the story more than i expected, and visually it was, of course, exceptional. </div>
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- vernal equinox - welcome spring!</div>
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- fresh dyed hair</div>
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- getting all my laundry done</div>
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- saw the new cinderella movie. it is perfect. absolutely perfect. better than i hoped - and i had <b>high </b>hopes. </div>
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- elder ballard was at our stake conference. he talked about the importance of knowing who you are, what your standards are, what you believe in, and taking time to conduct self-interviews to make sure you're on track and living your life accordingly. </div>
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ASHLEE GREENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17123251045388766216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7851188110643204671.post-8067066053017791352015-03-12T15:37:00.000-07:002015-03-12T15:38:52.138-07:002014 reading: miscellaneous <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chasers of Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Tyler Knott Gregson</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">yes, really. a book of poetry. gregson posts daily haiku and poems through various social media platforms, and developed enough of a following (including myself) to earn him a publishing contract. his love poems generally leave me a little weak in the knees and wishing someone would write such a thing for me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Letters from Father Christmas</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by J.R.R. Tolkien</span></span></div>
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ASHLEE GREENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17123251045388766216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7851188110643204671.post-81997478947024675582015-03-08T22:00:00.000-07:002015-03-09T11:11:26.643-07:00weekly happy list<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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- book club</div>
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- homemade cheesecake</div>
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- began reading "A Return to Modesty" - it's going to be good. i've only read through the introduction and i've already tabbed six pages. </div>
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- sunday school lesson went well</div>
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- my new bullet journal system getting me all organized and efficient and helping me track the lesser details of everyday that otherwise get forgotten</div>
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- saw Rogers and Hammerstein's Cinderella on stage in San Jose. magical. so fun. it's on a national tour. if you have the chance - definitely go see it. </div>
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ASHLEE GREENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17123251045388766216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7851188110643204671.post-61866451599216046022015-02-19T12:08:00.000-08:002015-02-19T12:10:17.942-08:002014 reading: young adult fiction<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Leslye Walton</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">really unique storytelling. beautiful language, prose, and tone. i'm dubious about the young adult classification. if my (hypothetical) teenage child read this, i would want them to be in their upper teens and i would want to talk some of it over with them afterward.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. The Giver</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Lois Lowry</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a classic. i reread this every few years. still perfect. everyone should read this. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3. Red Scarf Girl</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Ji-li Jiang</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">it’s embarrassing that i have a degree in history and had no knowledge about the chinese cultural revolution. my book club chose to read this because it’s on the common core reading lists. it’s informative and maddening and thought provoking and left me wanting to learn more. what more could you ask for in a book?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4. Code Name Verity</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Elizabeth Wein</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the first half of the book seems to get a little tedious in places, but once you get to the second half you see everything in a new light and it’s awesome. epic and intricate plotting. also, you learn a little about the history of ballpoint pens. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5. Insurgent </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by Veronica Roth</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6. Allegiant </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by Veronica Roth</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">full disclosure - young adult dystopian fiction is possibly my favorite genre and will always be well-represented in my reading lists. some novels/series are better than others as far as making parallels to our current situation and provoking thoughtful reflection and discussions - but i almost always enjoy reading them. the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Divergent </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">series kept me entertained and i was attached to the characters. perhaps not as thought provoking as others, but very readable. the direction the story went in the third novel completely took me by surprise (and apparently enraged a huge chunk of the fans). </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">more ya dystopian. second book in a trilogy. this is a really unique series. the author has a background in video game design and it shows (in a good way). militarist and gritty. i really enjoy these books. </span></div>
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ASHLEE GREENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17123251045388766216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7851188110643204671.post-19872977467856660482015-02-05T12:18:00.000-08:002015-02-20T12:07:51.822-08:002014 reading: fiction<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">all totaled, i read 45 books last year. since reading is what i spend the bulk of my free time doing, and people are constantly asking me for recommendations, i figured i'd share my reading list for last year along with comments on each book. i'm splitting it into a few posts. first up - fiction. </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(young adult fiction will be a separate post)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3. Fahrenheit 451 </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by Ray Bradbury</span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">brilliant. prophetic. i can’t believe i haven’t read it until now. on my must-read list. w</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">e are entertaining ourselves to mindlessness and Ray saw it coming a long time ago</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. i loved this so, <b>so </b>much.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4. Year of Wonders</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Geraldine Brooks</span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">this was a weird read for me. it’s one of those books that kind of has me thinking “is this it?” the whole time i’m reading it, but once i’m done i realize some serious questions and themes were explored. pretty solid. i would only recommend this to people who like “literature”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5. The Storied Life of A.J. Fickry</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Gabrielle Zevin</span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">i hated this book. so much.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6. A Game of Thrones</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by George R.R. Martin</span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">sci-fi/fantasy genre fiction is the only adult genre fiction i enjoy. this is clear genre fiction and it was exactly what it was supposed to be. i enjoyed it enough to hand it off to a friend who also enjoys genre fiction and pick up the second book for myself. </span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7. The Splendour Falls</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Susanna Kearsley </span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">it was alright. my least favorite of Kearsley’s books. </span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8. Ali and Nino: A Love Story</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Kurban Said</span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">this book was surprisingly epic for its short length and nothing i write about it could ever do it justice. i learned so much about the culture and history of an area of the world i’ve had no exposure to. i loved it so much. a little secret jewel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">9. The Red Tent</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Anita Diamant</span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the only word i can think of to describe this book is “interesting”. i enjoyed it very much. in a fortuitous turn of events i found myself reading this book shortly after i had studied the stories of jacob and joseph pretty intensely in preparation for teaching them at church; so to come to the story from a fictional but researched female point of view was really interesting. i think in exploring another point of view of such a well-known story the author exposed the humanness of the characters, making them all more relate-able and offered new lessons to be learned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">10. The Handmaid’s Tale</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Margaret Atwood</span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">this book is intense. Atwood is a WRITER. meaning - every words that she puts on a page has real purpose. this book may be a little much for some people, but i loved it. it was absolutely terrifying because you want to think it’s just a fictional world that isn’t possible, but the fact is women all over the world live in repressive systems akin to the one she creates here, and it makes you realize how vulnerable you are. it absolutely could happen to anyone. it also explores how “progress” in one person’s movement radicalizes people on the other side of the movement. </span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">11. Brave New World</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Aldous Huxley</span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SO GOOD! my head almost exploded when i read this book. it’s not enjoyable, per se, but it makes you look at your world and life and ask big questions about what you’re buying into, what you value, what direction everything is headed in. entire pages are highlighted. </span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">12. The Language of Flowers</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Vanessa Diffenbaugh</span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">i appreciated the central character's journey, and that the ending was happy(ish) but realistic. one of the best things about reading to me is that it can expose me to lifestyles and mentalities that are completely incomprehensible to me. several times when i was reading this book i kept thinking, “how could she do that?! what is she thinking?! who in their right mind would think that is okay?!” books like this help me recognize how fortunate i have been through my whole life, and help me have greater compassion and patience with others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">13. People of the Book</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Geraldine Brooks</span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">this book was a huge disappointment for me. it jumped back and forth between an ongoing story in the present and little vignettes in the past. i didn't care for the characters in the modern story, and their actions and development were unbelievable and unrealistic. the parts of the book that delved into history were interesting insofar as the historical background was concerned, but i often found the characters within those stories as tedious as the ones in the modern story. major letdown. </span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">14.</span><span style="font-style: italic; line-height: 1.15; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What She Left Behind</span><span style="line-height: 1.15; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Ellen Marie Wiseman</span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">this book was hit and miss for me. there are two stories within the book, one modern and one taking place starting in the early twentieth century. the modern story is trite and i really could have done without it entirely. the other story is more compelling, but it’s the fact that the experiences of the character are based on real stories that gripped me. i probably would rather have read the source material than the novel given the chance, but maybe that’s the history major in me talking. </span></span></div>
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ASHLEE GREENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17123251045388766216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7851188110643204671.post-5471079085594918612015-02-04T16:54:00.001-08:002015-02-04T16:54:20.501-08:00not in canada<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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people keep asking me when i'm moving.</div>
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i'm not.</div>
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yet.</div>
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in november i got a pleasant email from the enrollment people at UBC to inform me that i had to drop the online class i was registered for to be eligible for federal financial aid. </div>
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unfortunately, the class was a mandatory prerequisite for every single other class in the entire program. </div>
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i emailed the program coordinator about the problem and she was as baffled as i was. there are several american students in the program who receive federal financial aid and they had all taken the class. </div>
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several phone calls and emails later and the mystery was solved.</div>
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in november the u.s. department of education issued a new rule (or cracked down on the implementation of an existing rule - who knows?) which stated that american students at foreign universities were ineligible for federal financial aid if their program included any distance/online components. </div>
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and just like that - my plans went down the drain.</div>
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don't even get me started on the incomprehensible idiocy of this edict. what possible purpose can it serve? </div>
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the rule affected 26 people in my program. i'm lucky because i found out before i got there - students already in the program were informed that they would not be receiving their second disbursements of the year and had to find different sources of financial aid. </div>
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after talking to the program coordinator i decided to defer until fall 2015 while they tried to see if they could work out a solution, but in the meantime i would re-apply to other schools.</div>
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and so here i am.</div>
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still in fresno.</div>
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***</div>
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i got an email from the program coordinator last week saying they had worked out the problem, and people were receiving their funding. i'm still reapplying to one other school as a back-up plan, but it looks like i'll be headed up to vancouver in the fall. </div>
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keep your fingers crossed for me - and if you happen to drive past a u.s. department of education building, please, throw an egg at it for me. </div>
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ASHLEE GREENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17123251045388766216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7851188110643204671.post-26938032460559059632014-12-14T22:00:00.000-08:002014-12-15T14:29:25.475-08:00weekly happy list <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
- homemade english toffee <div>
- fires</div>
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- brown paper packages</div>
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- rainy days</div>
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- walk down christmas tree lane</div>
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- effective pain killers</div>
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- not getting overly discouraged in the face of disappointment and obstacles </div>
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ASHLEE GREENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17123251045388766216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7851188110643204671.post-72626155898878432732014-11-13T10:55:00.001-08:002014-11-13T10:55:43.961-08:00on my mind<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
it has been months since i blogged.<br />
it's been a combination of<br />
laziness<br />
having nothing much to say<br />
and just appreciating the volume of free time i have at my disposal.<br />
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but it seems like it's time to begin again,<br />
get back in the habit.<br />
<br />
before too long i'll be living in another country<br />
and this blog will probably be one of my primary means<br />
of sharing my life with my friends and family.<br />
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*****</div>
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speaking of moving to another country . . .</div>
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my visa application has been approved,</div>
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and i've signed up for classes.</div>
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apparently i'm really doing this.</div>
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on any given day i am either</div>
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incredibly excited</div>
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or paralyzed with fear.</div>
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mostly fear.</div>
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whose ideas was this, anyway . . . </div>
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*****</div>
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in other moving news<br />
i'm currently working on finding a place to live.<br />
this is by far the worst part of the whole thing.<br />
i will be moving in sight unseen<br />
potentially with roommate unmet . . .</div>
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the thing is,<br />
i've had some pretty amazing roommates before,<br />
i love them to this day.<br />
but i've also had some insane roommates before.<br />
like, really, really crazy.<br />
there is so much potential for mayhem and disaster here.<br />
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pray for me, my friends.<br />
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*****</div>
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i've had a nagging cough for about a week now.</div>
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it was very confusing because</div>
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i'm not prone to respiratory issues</div>
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and i never felt the least bit ill.</div>
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but now i understand.</div>
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we have an inversion here in good old fresno.</div>
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they're saying the air quality for the last week or so</div>
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is on par with bejing. </div>
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be-freaking-jing!!!</div>
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(do you remember those nightmare-ish shots of </div>
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the air in bejing from the olympics?)</div>
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so, i sound like a man</div>
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and i'm coughing my lungs out.</div>
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good times.</div>
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i stand by my decision to not travel in china. </div>
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ever.</div>
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*****</div>
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i had one of my wisdom teeth out a few weeks back.<br />
it was a lot less traumatic and painful than i expected.<br />
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i am getting the other three out this friday.<br />
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looks like a weekend of milk shakes,<br />
flavored drinks,<br />
movies,<br />
and tylenol with codeine.<br />
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don't you wish you were coming over?<br />
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*****</div>
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on the weekend</div>
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i died my hair about three shades darker</div>
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and chopped 3-4 inches off </div>
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and literally not one single person noticed.<br />
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*****</div>
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it's raining here today.</div>
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is there anything more wonderful?</div>
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no.</div>
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no there is not.</div>
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ASHLEE GREENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17123251045388766216noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7851188110643204671.post-28121928738946406052014-10-22T14:12:00.000-07:002014-10-22T14:12:00.741-07:00words of wisdom wednesday<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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for today's words of wisdom, an excerpt from walt whitman. i find these words so inspiring and comforting when faced with something hard or stressful or intimidating. imperturbable, aplomb, self-balanced. things to aspire to. </div>
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Me Imperturbe by Walt Whitman<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Me imperturbe, standing at ease in Nature,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Master of all or mistress of all, aplomb in the midst of </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"> irrational things,</span></b><br />
Imbued as they, passive, receptive, silent as they,<br />
Finding my occupation, poverty, notoriety, foibles, crimes,<br />
less important that I thought,<br />
. . . .<br />
Me wherever my life is lived,<span style="font-size: large;"> <b>O to be self-balanced for contingencies,</b></span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents,</span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b> rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.</b> </span><br />
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ASHLEE GREENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17123251045388766216noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7851188110643204671.post-12038768953986849802014-07-08T13:27:00.003-07:002014-07-08T13:28:14.546-07:0052 lists - week 16: favorite books<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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ASHLEE GREENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17123251045388766216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7851188110643204671.post-3679830178857735112014-07-08T13:26:00.001-07:002014-07-09T11:12:32.583-07:0052 lists - week 15: favorite quotes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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ASHLEE GREENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17123251045388766216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7851188110643204671.post-49710730436890013222014-05-28T16:36:00.000-07:002014-05-28T16:43:32.924-07:00on being part of the human race or what i learned by last semester in college<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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the final semester of my undergrad was hard on me. really hard.</div>
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not that the work load was insane, it was pretty average. it was the content. </div>
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the content was harrowing. </div>
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i took two classes: one on the holocaust, and a capstone research and writing seminar. the holocaust is self-explanatory. the capstone research and writing seminar is basically the history major's get-out-of-school class. you research and write and produce one paper. your subject is somewhat dictated by the professor you have, as it has to fall under their area of expertise. my professor's area of expertise is modern russia.</div>
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one of the reasons i'm not going into a master's program in history is that i've never found an era of history that captivates my attention beyond all others. fernando pessoa wrote, "everything interests me, but nothing holds me." </div>
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this has been my experience in life. i like to learn about so many things, and the thought of pouring all of my energy and time into learning about one thing or era, at the expense of everything else, sounds like torture. it's great for some people, but not for me. that being said, i can tell you that there are certain periods and cultures that i love learning about, and some that i have absolutely zero interest in. modern russia would fall under the category of things i have absolutely zero interest in. </div>
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amazingly, i found a topic i loved. (maybe loved isn't the right word . . . i was <b>passionate</b><i> </i>about it.) i wrote my paper on <i>besprizornye </i>(abandoned children) in russian between (roughly) 1914 to 1930. i focused on their experience, and the ways the government contributed to the problem and their suffering. at the height of the problem, there were 7.5 million <i>bezprizornye</i> in the soviet union. (that's not comprehensive, that's at one point in time.) it's safe to assume that at <i>least </i>half of them died of starvation, disease, or violence. </div>
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in my holocaust class we studied the usual things (build-up, politics, anti-semitism, concentration and death camps, etc.), but also spent a lot of time reading about the <a href="http://www.memorialdelashoah.org/upload/minisites/ukraine/en/en_exposition1.htm">holocaust by bullets</a> that took place all over central europe. for my personal project in the class i studied the kindertransport, an operation by which approximately 10,000 children (mostly jewish) were removed from central europe in the ten months before wwii started, and given refuge in the uk. it was touching, but sad at the same time. their lives were saved, but most of them were orphans by the end of the war. reading their stories about being taken from their homes at a young age was just gut wrenching. </div>
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in summary, my semester was about death and suffering. world wars, genocides, famines, hitler, stalin, gulags . . . over a hundred million deaths, easily. how do you even comprehend a hundred million deaths? you can't. on top of that, my personal projects focused on the ways that children suffer as a consequence of adult's decisions. </div>
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<b>i cried</b>.<b> a lot</b>. </div>
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it's disgusting to think of the things we do in the service of ego and the gaining of power; and the things we allow because of fear. </div>
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half-way through the semester we read a book called <i>holocaust by bullets</i> by father patrick desbois. it is a series of interviews and stories about the execution of jews in the ukraine during wwii. they were not put in camps, they were marched into fields and shot, millions of them, while their friends and neighbors looked on, often participated, and raised not a word in protest. clearly, the people being interviewed are the witnesses: the people who watched, who did not protest. it is a hard, devastating, maddening read. but there are a few passages about a third of the way through the book that changed the way i was experiencing and processing all of what i was studying during the semester:</div>
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"accepting awareness of what happened . . . . is to help new generations become resistant to genocide mechanisms which could be set in motion, again, anywhere in the world. why did i continue . . . i did it because genocides are multiplying and reproducing themselves."</div>
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"i am convinced that there is only one human race - a human race that shoots two-year-old children. <b>for better or for worse i belong to that human race</b> and this allows me to acknowledge that <b>an ideology can deceive minds to the point of annihilating all ethical reflexes</b> and all recognition of the human in the other. it happened in 1941, 1942, 1943, and 1944, in the very heart of europe, one of the oldest civilizations in the world that had been shaped by centuries of Christian religious thinking and by the enlightenment - yet human beings had stopped recognizing their own fellows! human beings had not seen that by killing others, they were killing themselves . . . i realized that <b>believing in the human race is a serious responsibility</b>, and a position that needs to be <b>consciously created and constructed</b>. it is not enough to affirm or declare the truth; <b>one must really commit oneself to the endeavor of developing a deep conscious, because, clearly . . . a conscience is a fragile entity</b>." </div>
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i think the main point my holocaust professor tried to get across through her lectures and the reading assignments was that nazi's were not the only perpetrators of the holocaust. it was a lot of ordinary people. a lot. but what does that mean?</div>
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"us and them" mentality is dangerous. in talking about holocaust perpetrators, it took all of about three seconds for someone in my class to say "i would never do that. those guys were evil." when i suggested that one of the main points in the two books we read (one of them <b>titled </b><i>ordinary men</i>) was how it was ordinary people who participated in the holocaust, not just nazis, the same girl who said "i would never" said, "no, i don't think that was a point." and i was so astounded and sad that i couldn't even respond. because this is the heart of so many problems. she couldn't accept the perpetrators as a group she might identify with, she could only accept them as an other entity: "evil." us and them. by distancing ourselves, by making someone an "other," we restrict ourselves from really understanding and learning. </div>
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the members of the nazi party were human. the non-nazi participators were human. the non-participators but non-objectors were human. the objectors were human. the jews were human.<b> i am human</b>. only by accepting the fact that i am capable of being part of any one of these groups, can i really start to develop the conscience necessary to live with integrity in the face of opposition. armed with that outlook, i can read about horrors and not just be depressed by them, but be armed by them. i gain in understanding and empathy. i can identify potentially dangerous tendencies in myself and guard against them. </div>
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i can be a better human. </div>
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ASHLEE GREENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17123251045388766216noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7851188110643204671.post-52352449814417310582014-05-22T16:09:00.000-07:002014-05-22T16:25:38.789-07:00on my mind<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
it is done.<br />
i graduated.<br />
i officially have a bachelors degree.<br />
it only took 18 years,<br />
but better late than never,<br />
i guess.<br />
apparently only about one-third<br />
of americans have a bachelors degree,<br />
which is awesome<br />
because we all know how much<br />
i like feeling superior.<br />
just wait until i have that<br />
masters degree in hand!<br />
(only about 12%)<br />
i'll be insufferable.<br />
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*****</div>
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speaking of masters degrees,</div>
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i'm headed north.</div>
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looks like i'm finally going to</div>
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cross "living outside the country"</div>
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off my bucket list.</div>
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i was accepted to </div>
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all the schools i applied to</div>
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and i've chosen to attend</div>
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university of british columbia</div>
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in vancouver, canada.</div>
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i start january 2015.</div>
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go thunderbirds!</div>
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*****</div>
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with school done<br />
i have so much free time.<br />
it's kind of creepy, actually.<br />
i get home and i have<br />
absolutely nothing that i need to be doing.<br />
i've been reading.<br />
it's weird to just sit down<br />
and read whatever i want<br />
without the guilt of knowing<br />
i'm neglecting something for school<br />
for such an extravagance.<br />
i wonder how many books i can read<br />
in the next seven months?<br />
(<i>seven months of free reading time,</i><br />
<i>can you imagine!?!?!</i>)<br />
also, the number of movies<br />
i <i>haven't </i>seen in the last several years<br />
is astounding.<br />
i'm working on refreshing my<br />
netflix dvd queue.<br />
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*****</div>
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i'm trying to decide if i should</div>
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travel anywhere this summer/fall.</div>
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the responsible me says</div>
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ashlee, you're moving out of the country</div>
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and you need to buy a new car</div>
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and a new laptop.</div>
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you do not have the money to spend on travel.</div>
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but the other me says</div>
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ashlee, you probably won't be able to travel</div>
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for the two years you're in grad school</div>
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and traveling is one of the joys of your life</div>
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and this is the first time in years</div>
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you have the ability to travel in the fall</div>
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which opens up travel locations you </div>
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didn't dare attempt in summer.</div>
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(jerusalem, morocco)</div>
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go for it!!</div>
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we'll see who wins.</div>
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(probably responsible ashlee.</div>
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the gwen is in her corner</div>
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and the gwen is <i>fierce </i>opposition.)</div>
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ASHLEE GREENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17123251045388766216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7851188110643204671.post-33848934050232241692014-05-21T11:47:00.002-07:002014-05-21T11:47:40.337-07:0052 lists - week 14: childhood & current dream jobs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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ASHLEE GREENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17123251045388766216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7851188110643204671.post-17081575100893080762014-05-21T11:45:00.000-07:002014-05-21T11:45:49.517-07:0052 lists - week 13: things i want to make<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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ASHLEE GREENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17123251045388766216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7851188110643204671.post-50273838933109264092014-05-21T11:43:00.002-07:002014-05-21T11:45:25.787-07:0052 lists - week 12: things that feel like home<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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ASHLEE GREENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17123251045388766216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7851188110643204671.post-86809005503377379442014-05-21T11:41:00.000-07:002014-05-21T11:41:05.272-07:0052 lists - week 10: ways i can cleanse for spring<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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ASHLEE GREENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17123251045388766216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7851188110643204671.post-14038894179618848652014-03-07T16:21:00.000-08:002014-03-12T16:22:11.905-07:0052 lists - week 9: places i want to go<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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