tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60488582012-02-16T01:20:00.665-05:00on the stairswe are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us. Like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot understand what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. we are far too easily pleased. -C.S.Lewisambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.comBlogger4431100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-41431402071919515532008-01-26T17:03:00.000-05:002008-02-04T16:45:52.197-05:00stairwell accompaniment:RadioheadI WILL BE HERE INDEFINITELY(click)new days.ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-7667871473136219772008-01-22T20:21:00.000-05:002008-01-22T22:44:58.644-05:00stairwell accompaniment:howie dayjosh is in the basement now--making biodiesel out of vegetable oil. of the many and varied inventions and projects he is continually pursuing, this one makes me smile. he's smarter than he thinks. and cuter. in the moments i feel hopeless and helpless, he brings the small bits of humanity necessary for grace. given and received.i'm not sure the official becomingambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-69012721387729061042008-01-13T17:01:00.000-05:002008-01-13T17:08:19.918-05:00stairwell accompaniment:Gusterback in school, yo. trying not to drown. i've arrived at my longed-for preceptorship in women's health. two more months. only.ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-35495411564794135702008-01-01T15:00:00.000-05:002008-01-01T15:01:38.027-05:00stairwell accompaniment:SpoonHello 2008. ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-83425740396434404632007-12-30T21:09:00.000-05:002007-12-30T21:27:20.058-05:00two years ago.there is nothing more raw, old, deep, or more necessaryour hearts, paper-thinwe are acting out something biggernot taking grace for grantedit is endlessambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-82772440320608499562007-12-27T18:49:00.000-05:002007-12-27T19:05:52.899-05:00stairwell accompaniment:Dave MatthewsHappiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. -Thomas Merton Today we found happiness running the trails along the river. Lose your footing. Bruise your knees. Breathe the cool air. Listen to the water. Over the smooth rocks. Taking small moments to allow large thoughts out. In the open. I want to be known and let theambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-51759208587808963792007-12-24T17:17:00.000-05:002007-12-24T17:28:55.734-05:00stairwell accompaniment:Nat King ColeMerry Christmas!We'll update you with pictures:We celebrated with our house church Christmas potluck-Jon Black is in town from Montana and we always enjoy his company-I took Selah's annual Christmas pictures-We celebrated Christmas early with my family in Ohio-Then drove to Kentucky to have Christmas with Josh's brother Ryan and family-And then continued on ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-61745989314543130712007-12-18T14:03:00.000-05:002007-12-19T00:00:51.611-05:00Some of the media we've been enjoying this Christmas break:-God Grew Tired of Us. This is both an autobiographical book by John Bul Dau and a documentary-style movie by Chrostopher Quinn about the Lost Boys of Sudan. I highly recommend the book which is much different that the film and will change your life and make you fall in love with John. The film is also excellent. Watch the trailer ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-64364956185044388162007-12-14T23:58:00.001-05:002007-12-14T23:58:53.675-05:00stairwell accompaniment:Counting Crows ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-81599511297598989992007-12-10T12:38:00.000-05:002007-12-10T12:40:15.612-05:00stairwell accompaniment:James TaylorPandora is absolutely blowing my mind. ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-11141062469802545412007-12-05T23:23:00.000-05:002007-12-05T23:27:11.900-05:00stairwell accompaniment:Radiohead- In Rainbowsbefore and afterthe difference 30 days can make in the midwesti found encouragement in this resilient remnant of autumnambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-62828279762044833162007-12-04T12:28:00.000-05:002007-12-04T12:29:46.080-05:00stairwell accompaniment:SpoonThere is a Moment each Day that Satan cannot find.-WBambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-18706574681926836792007-11-29T15:32:00.000-05:002007-11-29T15:33:02.911-05:00Breathing earthambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-49855231522897862362007-11-27T22:03:00.000-05:002007-11-27T22:17:45.803-05:00today i:found this intriguing book: Other People's Love Letterssaw this alarming film: Maxed Outdanced in the kitchen with Josh to this favorite new song!:Cherry Bombenjoying winter break.ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-73825145095304823462007-11-19T21:27:00.000-05:002007-11-19T21:34:40.760-05:00stairwell accompaniment:Radioheaddriving the '85 Mercedes diesel is an artaged to perfection with comical audacityambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-87615368768876348902007-11-18T21:40:00.000-05:002007-11-19T11:01:51.222-05:00ambushstairwell accompaniment:Over the RhineMy dear, sweet, kind-spirited friend Kristi--a similar-soul with whom I lived for nearly two years in a creaky house with 3 girls, 2 dogs and one very peculiar cat named Jedi. She now officially holds the honored title of The One Who Pushed Amber to Question-and-Answer Posts. I have been faithfully applauding myself for resisting for two, three, no...four ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-48978104290640982522007-11-14T21:32:00.000-05:002007-11-14T22:32:29.185-05:00stairwell accompaniment:Glen Hansard, Damien Rice, Ray Lamontagne, Snow Patrol, Eddie Vedder with some Patty Griffin!A new look! A fresh! exciting! look for the onset of grey days in Ohio. My beloved autumn has nearly come to an end. We've been busy around here lately. I'm finishing my pediatric rotation, Josh is finishing his grad school class. We're praying and planning an extended trip to ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-15409953573561275142007-11-05T21:17:00.000-05:002007-11-05T22:11:32.377-05:00Please join us in praying for Maveja.Her sweet soul needs your intercession."It matters little what form of prayer we adopt...or how many words we use. What matters is the faith which lays hold on God, knowing that He knows our needs before we even ask Him. That is what gives Christian prayer its boundless confidence and its joyous certainty. We simply make petitions and requests to One who ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-47533230228160155432007-10-30T19:13:00.001-04:002007-10-30T19:13:43.157-04:00Selah's first trick-or-treatambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-78427184251252382562007-10-28T22:01:00.001-04:002007-10-28T22:07:49.480-04:00stairwell accompaniment:Eddie VedderThis week I turned all of 25. Josh bought me flowers and took me to see this movie that I highly recommend. I am older.Wiser.Aging to imperfection.ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-29051719702079980822007-10-21T22:25:00.000-04:002007-10-21T22:30:28.386-04:00Weekend trip down to "the property" in Red River Gorge, KY with Ham, Carli, Hamilton and Isabella.(reference archive December 13, 2006) ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-30483150710525655772007-10-17T21:04:00.000-04:002007-10-17T21:06:46.788-04:00stairwell accompaniment:Dave Matthews/Tim Reynoldsdaily lifeambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-15294435965311405562007-10-14T14:59:00.001-04:002007-10-14T21:33:01.424-04:00stairwell accompaniment:Glen HansardMuch to say but not this time. This weekend was the beloved yearly fall street festival! We were able to enjoy the late beginning of autumn here in Ohio. For our residential last time. I was also graciously given the opportunity for creative outlet (reminiscent of the Autumn-Art-Days savored in days past with Schmanda!) and the expansion of my new ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-61129694711849410222007-10-11T18:01:00.000-04:002007-10-11T18:02:55.095-04:00stairwell accompaniment:Matthew Perryman Jones-Save Youdo you remember how we used to fall apart together?(i had expected you to forget.)you are nothing and everything of what i want and needwe are perfectly ruined. oh how the days are lighter when you stop and wait and see the way colors fold and spin around ideas that you had when you were younger. now climb up the stairs to the attic and maybeambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-18388079146070570362007-10-09T21:59:00.000-04:002007-10-09T23:02:48.842-04:00stairwell accompaniment:Ben Harperinspired by sunset walks and words with Leslie-things I am thankful for today:a day off schoolmy husband as a running partnerphone conversation with Maveja across continentsfalling temperaturesrhubarb pieSandi challenging me to read this bookand think intelligently/critically/lovingly/biblically in responseGod's provisionflowers from Joshthe mystery in making ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-56512183502520601312007-10-01T09:09:00.000-04:002007-10-01T21:37:08.905-04:00Welcome to October!ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-37460741501309610052007-09-24T21:13:00.000-04:002007-09-27T15:53:30.383-04:00stairwell accompaniment:Glen Hansard and Marketa IrglovaIt is currently 90 degrees inside our apartment but I hold firm to hope that fall is, in fact, intending to arrive. I've seen small glimpses of it in passing days. A crisp morning here, a floating leaf there. Earlier sunsets and cooler sheets at night. Blue sky and warm drinks in the morning. These things push hope forward.My husband is ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-70980990203655648112007-09-12T14:37:00.000-04:002007-09-12T14:38:01.934-04:00back in schoolambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-51358365022172489762007-09-02T23:24:00.001-04:002007-09-02T23:29:15.382-04:00stairwell accompaniment:James Taylorcamping/hiking/rappelling on Ham and Carli's property in Kentucky. Josh never ceases to amaze me in his knowledge of outdoorsness. Although it looks as if Ham was teaching/helping us to rappel, it is not so. All know-how comes from my husbands vast knowledge and my meager experience (by comparison). Ham was simply trying to reassure himself that we were notambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-79433417778371767192007-08-30T11:45:00.000-04:002007-08-30T11:50:40.840-04:00stairwell accompaniment:Grace Potter and the Nocturnalsi dreamed i made myself a halo out of cardboardi wrote you a letter on an old typewriter i asked you not to save me this timeI need a rest. I need to hold my weaknesses and get to know them. I need to tell you what they are. To learn to speak the things I am not proud of. I need forgiveness.I need to ask.I'm sick of these halfways. Getting ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-56740652955007022812007-08-27T12:33:00.000-04:002007-08-27T22:22:28.138-04:00stairwell accompaniment:The ShinsThe newest collection of photos come from inside our apartment. The place we've been spending more time the past few weeks. Catching up from travels and hosting. I've resumed my lofty summer reading list and recently finished a book by Anita Diamant called The Red Tent. This excerpt caught my eye by hinting to the mood here recently:"I found great joy in ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-11838301282748155082007-08-17T20:08:00.000-04:002007-08-18T10:06:47.636-04:00We are in Alabama living a little slower.Sharing with you from our day in Chattanooga, Tennessee: ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-89171786582758170672007-08-12T00:46:00.000-04:002007-08-12T00:47:32.711-04:00Sam and Amanda's Weddingambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-1174884337895228222007-08-06T23:24:00.000-04:002007-08-06T23:26:06.453-04:00stairwell accompaniment:Damien Riceand for you, Joy:"That is why the real problem of the Christian life comes where people do not usually look for it. It comes the very moment you wake up each morning. All your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists simply in shoving them all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-33892699341001231172007-08-05T11:38:00.000-04:002007-08-05T11:54:18.482-04:00stairwell accompaniment:David GrayThis week I realized that I echo sentiments recorded last summer during similar days.So again, I'm breaking the silence. Wanting to be a better writer and wanting to write more requires what can often be a heavy thought until you actually begin the action: writing. I sit and try to write and feel as if, today, creativity would require from me the same energy as ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-39037164776623554272007-08-01T10:55:00.000-04:002007-08-01T11:32:58.451-04:00stairwell accompaniment:Thom YorkeThings worth looking at:World Food Programme KivaThings of summer days:ExperimentingReadingPushingListeningLooking AheadTaking suggestionsI want to capture authentic and beautiful photographsI want to write true and graceful words I want to dive deeper into community when it challenges meI want to consume less create moreI want to slow down and be usefulI want ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-35142020671248256912007-07-29T23:20:00.000-04:002007-07-29T23:29:56.428-04:00stairwell accompaniment:Ryan Adamssharing with you from our weekend of Michigan camping with Sam and Amanda: In other news: we are the proud new owners of a Mercedes-Benz Turbo Diesel that has celebrated nearly the amount of birthdays as I. My husband will proudly run it off biodiesel. This development will call for the separation of me and my beloved Jetta. Times change us.ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-56575993046507516072007-07-24T21:39:00.000-04:002007-07-24T21:40:29.962-04:00stairwell accompaniment:Over the Rhine (NEW!)"I have heard what the talkers were talking. The talk of the beginning and the end. But I do not talk of the beginning or the end. There was never any more inception than there is now, Nor any more youth or age than there is now; And will never be any more perfection than there is now, Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now." -Walt Whitmanambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-23142832854105046612007-07-18T16:06:00.000-04:002007-07-18T16:12:27.595-04:00stairwell accompaniment:The Be Good TanyasLately we've been eating cupcakes, playing uno, telling stories, having friends over for coffee and icecream, employing fans against humidity, living in the smaller things.ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-28735618273652307832007-07-15T22:39:00.000-04:002007-07-15T22:42:52.181-04:00stairwell accompaniment:Damien Riceenjoying summer when autumn can't come too quicklyambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-10667512371599271192007-07-13T23:55:00.000-04:002007-07-14T00:01:22.754-04:00stairwell accompaniment:Ben HarperA better woman than I, she hasn't ceased to surprise me. Enjoy her detailed efforts.Tonight we had dinner with friends we like. A lot. Friends who are willing to be the first visitors to sit on our construction-cone orange kitchen chairs and fill our small apartment with community. Walk our sidewalks with us. Pet our cat. Friends who, on occasion, give the ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-46006715377453602442007-07-11T20:28:00.000-04:002007-07-11T20:29:25.196-04:00stairwell accompaniment:Patty Griffinthe first evening of lazy sunset at a coffeeshop by a train track. almost like autumn."We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship." CS Lewisambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-24741879688063308602007-07-08T12:10:00.000-04:002007-07-08T12:11:22.993-04:00stairwell accompaniment:Snow Patrolliving with four fewer (wisdom) teethambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-21542591576848085752007-07-05T14:10:00.000-04:002007-07-05T14:13:18.833-04:00stairwell accompaniment:Elton JohnSelah turned 2 this week!We celebrated with cakes, bubbles, fireworks and nose-picking.ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-73950682409342786042007-07-04T12:37:00.000-04:002007-07-05T14:10:28.306-04:00stairwell accompaniment:Bob DylanWe are settling back in to this place we call home as much as we'd like at this point. It was a peculiar situation to arrive back in The Homeland of Excess in time for celebrations of an uncanny patriotic independence in the cultural way only Americans can celebrate. My brief stints in the role of foreigner has truly warped my perception of allegiance. It seems ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-76623260330473475092007-06-27T10:45:00.000-04:002007-06-27T11:01:04.112-04:00stairwell accompaniment:Patti Griffinmore...ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-32366123855507765122007-06-26T15:07:00.000-04:002007-06-26T15:17:20.441-04:00ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-18918369409655237572007-06-26T13:23:00.000-04:002007-06-26T13:30:48.711-04:00AfricaWe have arrived home after 24 hours in various aircraft. I've started the process of sharing it all with you through our (MANY) pictures. It will take a while.as usual, just a piece of what can be found here: flickrambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-61003508362882613312007-06-18T13:20:00.000-04:002007-06-18T13:29:19.551-04:00Today we completed the confusing 2 day trek across the border into Zambia.We have pictures to post and stories to tell. Eight lions, countless elephants, zebras and rhinos. Bible studies under the sun and in school classrooms. Walks thruogh the desert and sliding down sand dunes. Sunsets that are short and memorable. Valerie:18 and with AIDS, she is the last living of nine children. Prayer ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-68854782901810876602007-06-10T16:04:00.000-04:002007-06-18T13:29:43.111-04:00We have arrived in the desert land of enormous blue sky. Played soccer with locals. Saw shoting stars and the Milky Way. Passed a giraffe, a warthog and walked with cattle. Made dinner without electicity. Became the minority. The land of church with the doors open. Of dry and bloody noses and forever-traumatized toilet habits (following stories of toilet-swimming zebra nakes!). Culture shock ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-39004039849350377112007-06-08T12:28:00.000-04:002007-06-08T12:30:23.930-04:00We went from summer to winter in under 24 hours and are on the other side of the world. Sleeping in Johannesburg, South Africa to add another star to the map.It is cold.Tomorrow to Namibia.ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-60523459779699475492007-06-07T15:26:00.000-04:002007-06-07T16:08:19.153-04:00further boundstairwell accompaniment:CNN News Corresponding from the curious land of the airport. Washington D.C. specifically and 20 days of journeying has begun. What surprises me is the process of letting go. One might assume it is embraced immediately, like suddendly realizing you are in that space you've been longing for. No, it is a process of slowly unwrapping your fingers. One by one. First you turn ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-8174500071566103422007-05-29T21:22:00.000-04:002007-05-29T21:41:29.696-04:00stairwell accompaniment:Over the Rhinebusy daysdelivering mother's day and watching Selah growlaughing and enjoying springAndrew's senior prom and boys dressing like twinsgreen and pink flowers from the marketwriting research papers and growing porch gardensdinners with friends and josh's first drive-in moviebiking to save the environment and plotting our course across the worldfollowing a very ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-22500527978476621732007-05-16T14:33:00.000-04:002007-05-16T15:25:23.045-04:00We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.--Goodmanambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-65132132337340030302007-05-04T21:56:00.000-04:002007-05-04T22:00:07.264-04:00stairwell accompaniment:DMBlatelyambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-54089398833039298892007-04-28T22:04:00.000-04:002007-04-28T22:08:11.059-04:00stairwell accompaniment:Brandi Carlileleft over photographs from Colorado on 35 mm camera:and one from today. the day for washing the sheets, picnicking, throwing frisbees and baking.ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-33523334492253578622007-04-23T20:24:00.001-04:002007-04-23T21:15:09.256-04:00stairwell accompaniment:The ShinsSince being married, I have become more overtly aware of the unusual collection of "ways that I am." There seems to be a push for people, particularly in the Reformed community, to appoint a specific "calling" as their chief focus. (One might blame this on a largely western need to create hierarchy.) For married women, it tends to go something along the lines of "ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-40382866525465649552007-04-22T21:35:00.000-04:002007-04-22T21:36:54.128-04:00stairwell accompaniment:REMwarm enough to trail runambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-1320530052878735772007-04-17T16:08:00.000-04:002007-04-17T16:10:11.599-04:00ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-24372411928039423282007-04-16T20:56:00.000-04:002007-04-16T21:24:35.809-04:00stairwell accompaniment:Radiohead-Kid Aeat.work.josh.sleep.school.wash.rinse.repeat.run.laugh.read.travel.wash.rinse.repeat.We're taking a class together on Global Poverty. I find it enlightening to be students together. My husband the perfectionist. And the valedictorian. And I, the sponge. Albeit the competitive sponge. The material is fascinating and depressing and encouraging and heavy.ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-53984109020680881822007-04-05T16:32:00.000-04:002007-04-06T11:45:36.425-04:00stairwell accompaniment:David GrayWisdom tells me I am nothing.Love tells me I am everything.And between the two my life flows.-- NisargadattaHow we save the Enviornment:we walk and save our cardboard, we think bigThings we still need:a bedroom dresser and patience. time to give.Right now small things help.tea.conversation.arguments.naps.grapes.and the way the purple flowers grow outside our ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-62999377958532626992007-03-27T15:57:00.001-04:002007-03-27T15:57:48.668-04:00stairwell accompaniment:Ray LaMontagneThe thing about real life is that important events don’t announce themselves. Trumpets don’t blow, drums don’t beat to let you know you are going to meet the most important person you’ve ever met, or read the most important thing you are ever going to read, or have the most important conversation you are ever going to have, or spend the most important week ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-28046280852926380832007-03-23T19:16:00.000-04:002007-03-23T19:29:04.135-04:00stairwell accompaniment:Patty Griffinambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-19387449465734050692007-03-22T22:30:00.000-04:002007-03-22T22:31:21.516-04:00Today we hiked Garden of the Gods. We also arrived at my treat of the week...the Bed and Breakfast!! ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-66984227682192146302007-03-21T22:48:00.000-04:002007-03-21T23:02:09.125-04:00stairwell accompaniment:Snow PatrolSad to leave Boulder, we're now in Colorado Springs!Things we are enjoying today:Being sore from hiking. Eating oranges. Going from cheap hostel to cheap motel. Sunshine. Two meals a day outside. Using the mountains as our compass. Sunsets very unlike the midwest. Faking British/Irish accents. Poorly. Tomorrow we hike Garden of the Gods and Pikes Peak!ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-3793573425145635252007-03-20T23:00:00.000-04:002007-03-21T23:02:50.811-04:00Today we took the long hike 1300 feet up the Flatirons of Boulder, CO.The arrow indicates where we ended:many beautiful views on the way up:This is what the top of the second Flatiron looks like:and this is the end of the VERY long and scenic way down:ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-59750482004890387022007-03-20T12:52:00.000-04:002007-03-20T21:12:34.976-04:00...and we are herestairwell accompaniment:The BeatlesThe past two mornings Josh has been on campus meeting with professors and learning about the program. I suppose I could have gone with him. I submitted that I am on Spring Break. That means I've had time to roam and drink coffee at tiny coffee shops. Drive around and check out housing. Act like a local. Soak up the sun. Enjoy their good radio stations. ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-8936532943559957922007-03-19T14:17:00.000-04:002007-03-20T21:58:31.413-04:00We have arrived in Boulder. We may never leave.ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-17694518432072708832007-03-17T22:59:00.000-04:002007-03-17T23:02:31.848-04:00stairwell accompaniment:Roderigo y Gabriellaour day around Denver and Golden, Colorado ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-9553744942494438912007-03-17T03:10:00.001-04:002007-03-17T03:10:52.615-04:00stairwell accompaniment:Damien RiceWe have arrived.Colorado.ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-64267203760786953502007-03-13T20:47:00.000-04:002007-03-13T20:51:38.690-04:00stairwell accompaniment:Radioheadtoday we opened the windows, rode our bikes, ran the steps of the art institute and ate gellato. tomorrow we go to school and work and call far off friends.and soon, we travel!ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-81065749609141056252007-03-07T20:19:00.000-05:002007-03-07T20:20:00.866-05:00stairwell accompaniment:Chasing FuriesMiracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.--C.S. Lewis quoteambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-39502670782803767582007-02-26T11:32:00.000-05:002007-02-26T12:04:47.296-05:00stairwell accompaniment:Fiona AppleWe are laughing more than expected. Still usually confused as to why this is all so joyful. We live simply. And we are trying harder to live simply so that the others can simply live. We are finding redistribution. And so we try hard. We get messy. We try hard again.We are driving to friends. And having friends visit. Because we collect the type of friends who ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-11886557136916422812007-02-24T16:01:00.000-05:002007-02-24T16:03:27.436-05:00ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-21526331527484484132007-02-19T21:46:00.000-05:002007-02-19T21:50:40.660-05:00getting in on this"Give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only by daily bread. Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, "Who is the Lord?" Proverbs 30:8-9ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-22766106711157764902007-02-12T16:39:00.000-05:002007-02-12T17:15:44.324-05:00stairwell accompaniment:Joe Purdylive every day as jubilee. unenroll identity. pave the way for moses. allow the cat to amble around my shins. commune. photograph the familiar. tell you my secret. have you tell me. break bread with pharisees. read to the incapable. patch my jeans. accept gratitude. ask without self-interest. lament those who lack regret. lament my own lack. pray for irrational ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-72267984950068586382007-02-09T10:21:00.000-05:002007-02-13T10:38:49.961-05:00We are swimming with the snakes at the bottom of the well. So silent and peaceful in the darkness where we fell. But we are not snakes and what's more we never will be. And if we stay swimming here forever we will never be free.I heard them ringing the bells In heaven and hell. They got a secret they're getting ready to tell.It's falling from the sky. Calling from the graves.Open your eyes, boy, ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-72600540387380121342007-01-31T21:51:00.000-05:002007-01-31T22:11:19.434-05:00stairwell accompaniment:The Be Good Tanyasthis week: my husband arrives home from Germany, my dad journeys home from China and my best friend finds home here with us from Africa. tonight with girls:we ate dessert, laughed and celebrated community. asked hard questions, wanted better answers and opened the doors of our lives, peering out so that the others may be embraced in. i need more laughterambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-21439028931828811742007-01-29T19:56:00.000-05:002007-01-29T19:57:55.158-05:00stairwell accompaniment:K T TunstallA man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen. Gilbert K. Chestertonambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-92206430502094885022007-01-23T16:53:00.000-05:002007-01-24T13:20:18.892-05:00stairwell accompaniment:Joe PurdyJoy, you have pushed the door to this childlike amusement with life slightly farther open. And the countless times we are left wondering what it is we are so excited about(??), I savor the frenzy, the elation, the gusto and can't help but wonder why more of life isn't like this!? Let's take on this adult life with blissful expectancy and our elation will keep us ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-55354384113493572882007-01-22T17:18:00.000-05:002007-01-22T17:25:31.754-05:00stairwell accompaniment:Ingrid Michaelsonthis weekend we: hosted family. slept in. took a walk. read books. played hide and seek. napped. ate pizza. laughed. learned to share. played risk. watched the snow. drank tea. played in the snow. studied. prayed. fasted. studied. hosted friends. stayed the same. changed. ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-17276743817646503032007-01-10T16:19:00.000-05:002007-01-10T16:20:49.455-05:00stairwell accompaniment:Radiohead-Kid AEnough. These few words are enough.If not these words, this breath.If not this breath, this sitting here.This opening to the lifeWe have refusedAgain and againUntil now.Until now.-David Whyteambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-23861540766357407102007-01-09T19:04:00.000-05:002007-01-09T19:05:09.516-05:00getting into this."In the city you will find that the poor and the broken are often much, much more open to the idea of Gospel grace and much more dedicated to its practical outworkings than you are." (Tim Keller)ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-2334250791095560042007-01-08T20:17:00.000-05:002007-01-08T21:33:26.367-05:00warning:facial hairstairwell accompaniment:guster-rocketshipthese days i have found joy in friends who allow me to mourn, who mourn with me. In unconventional ways and with surprising graces. i hold my basket full of your well-wishes, your shared memories and tearful laughter. thank you.every day i find joy in my husband as we stumble through this amusing, bizarre and contagious lagniappe we have discovered ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-26096907421051232322007-01-01T19:18:00.000-05:002007-01-01T19:23:47.585-05:00mourning the untimely death of a loving companion and loyal friend. Leviambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-72924305465132566612006-12-31T18:32:00.000-05:002006-12-31T22:17:51.256-05:00stairwell accompaniment:Gusterwe honored the passing of our first year of husband and wifedom this weekend. i've come to terms with the fact that i married an engineer. we wandered the exhibits of a children's science museum. he's come to terms with the fact that he married me. we took pictures of it all. being away from home. taking home along.ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-76123285197385036772006-12-26T17:03:00.000-05:002006-12-26T17:07:24.283-05:00stairwell accompaniment:Patti Griffinand Christmasambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-38693227768715703562006-12-21T20:41:00.000-05:002006-12-21T20:55:46.841-05:00stairwell accompaniment:patty griffinthings i enjoy today:joshreading Schaefferfull day of massage appointmentsendangered species dark chocolate squaresthe weepiesthis american life with Ira Glasstext messagesrainy decemberdown blanketsgreen teamissing schmandaworld mapsoup and grilled cheesetangerinespersonalized Christmas cardsmoches boches our cat generosity...receivedambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-44827319624351095982006-12-17T21:12:00.000-05:002006-12-17T21:14:57.097-05:00stairwell accompaniment:The Weepiesweekendfriends visitinghouse churchambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-14493951549583942422006-12-15T10:24:00.000-05:002006-12-15T10:28:48.397-05:00stairwell accompaniment:the weepiesrecently with selahambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-31041770652849572572006-12-13T20:36:00.000-05:002006-12-15T10:24:47.954-05:00Yesterday I delivered Carli's baby. Unexpectedly and delightfully.I was called in as a replacement doula and accepted the job joyfully. Ham(dad) and I ended up delivering baby Isabella all by ourselves. Rest assured, this is a G rated picture of me massaging Carli's belly during labor.Carli and healthy baby.ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-79624175382376322682006-11-29T12:28:00.001-05:002006-12-06T21:06:15.050-05:00i wish that when we spoke we were free to make words just as beautiful as when we write them. i want conversations to have a form, whether it be careful and aesthetic or ragged and tough. i want to think of a design when people are speaking to me.rip it apart.all of these ideals i have held on to so stubbornly. i dont know whether it is God telling me to loosen my grip or it is him asking me to ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-36877025208149896242006-11-28T16:24:00.000-05:002006-11-29T12:17:56.568-05:00stairwell accompaniment:AugustanaI survived the southern Thanksgiving. Barely. But not at all due to roadkill delicatessens(not a fried possum to be found!) or the grossly underestimated amount of tractors and hunting camo encountered (yes, they wear it to church, amen). More or less due to the stomach ulcer I inadvertently invited along which could be loosely related to the fact that a 91% is a ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-65033272585370304322006-11-21T20:49:00.000-05:002006-11-21T20:51:52.598-05:00stairwell accompaniment:Snow Patrolto Alabama for the holiday. where they have yet to invent computers, ya'll.ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-54640083630533418742006-11-18T21:08:00.000-05:002006-11-18T21:14:10.710-05:00stairwell accompaniment:Damien Ricerespite: finals weekambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-40148449540021094172006-11-17T16:38:00.000-05:002006-11-16T14:40:10.575-05:00Dostoyevsky once wrote, "Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams. Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action, rapidly preformed and in the sight of all."ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-75334400041801014102006-11-16T14:31:00.000-05:002006-11-16T14:38:22.940-05:00stairwell accompaniment:Damien Rice 9Miracles love attention and will multiply according to their reception. Somehow, miracles appear in unfocused moments or in one pointed focus of intense concentration. I have asked for, and received so many miracles, and I trust that is true. Describing how it works is a bit difficult, except I know that it involves faith."There are two ways of living your ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-55339186854230888332006-11-15T14:38:00.000-05:002006-11-15T14:39:27.769-05:00Damien Rice's new album 9ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-1163195019265184432006-11-10T16:38:00.000-05:002006-11-15T14:36:37.034-05:00stairwell accompaniment:Snow PatrolToday my heart feels like a pincushion of beauty and affliction.And somehow I fall into laughter, embarrassed by the grace of it all, by the character of my Lord and God. We are loved. And this joy, this joy is no mere sentiment – it is so much bigger than that. So much bigger than nostalgia, so big that it clothes all our grieving and doubts and thirsty dreams.ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048858.post-1162934637534837152006-11-07T16:20:00.000-05:002006-11-15T14:36:36.923-05:00stairwell accompaniment:Ray LamantagnaI believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of an achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One ambrosiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684036524005105455noreply@blogger.com0