Song Lyrics. Liner Notes. Maps. Headphones. Anything beautiful. People who will be vulnerable. Being genuine. Grace. Pianos. Remembering. Potential. Hope. Blogs. Blog Comments. To Write Love on Her Arms. Canada. Being completely terrified of something that is both good and hard. Florida. Thinking. Writing. Breathing. Leaving. Coming Home.
Sunday Night Dinner. Park Days. Springtime. Rain. A lot of Rain. The Sky. Dusk. Silhouettes. Dawn. Roadtrips. Mail. New CD's. Charcoal. Drawing. Writing. Moments. Hope. Love.
The Gibson's Loungeroom. Conversation. Stage Rhodes. Cups of Tea. Story. Apple Blossom. Travel Songs. Blustery Days. Drum Samples. Organ Sounds. Sleepovers. Prayer. Freedom. Perspective. Being where we are. Honesty. Feeling like Family. New Friends. Journey. Clarity. Truth.
Learning from imaginary characters. Loving books more than movies. Learning from the lyrics of John Mayer songs. Wanting it to be Sunday night every night. Driving. Being Driven. People. Portraits. Singing Sky Sounds.
Music
The Rocket Summer, Between the Trees, Coldplay,
Waking Ashland, Sleeping at Last, Something for Kate, Turin Brakes, Art of Fighting, The Hush Sound, Death Cab for Cutie, Imogen Heap, The Emma Fair Band, Foreign Films, John Mayer, Brooke Fraser, Phil Wickham, Jason Upton, The Secret Handshake, Jonathan Stark, Mat Kearney, Jimmy Eat World, Anberlin, Paramore, The Beatles, The Fray, Jon Foreman, Counting Crows, Jack's Mannequin, Nada Surf, Cold War Kids, Just Off Turner, The Stoics, Jason Mraz, Evermore.
I guess that I just love the way music makes memories.
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Movies
The Notebook. Across the Universe. Almost Famous. Garden State. Swing Kids. Love Actually. In the Land of Women. Juno. Elizabeth Town. Lord of the Rings.
Television
Greys Anatomy. Heroes. Gilmore Girls. One Tree Hill. The OC.
Books
The Bible. Redeeming Love. The Atonement Child. Leota's Garden. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (1-4). Harry Potter (1-7). God on Mute. Red Moon Rising. Velvet Elvis. Blue Like Jazz. Through Painted Deserts. The Memory Keepers Daughter. The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Traveling Mercies.
Right now i'm reading: The Old Man and the Sea, On The Road and Pagan Christianity.
Next Up: Travels with Charley in Search of America, Sweet Thursday and A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Heroes
i was thinking this week, that the great thing about hanging out with Jesus, would be that you wouldn't want to be anybody else but exactly who you are. people that make me feel like that. :)
Jess.'s Details
Status:
Single
Religion:
Christian - other
Zodiac Sign:
Sagittarius
Occupation:
Student
Jess.'s Schools
UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA
Ottawa, Canada
Graduated: N/A
Degree: In Progress
Major: this is maybe the dream for next year. i think. oh boy.
2009 to 2010
University of Tasmania
LAUNCESTON, Australia
Graduated: N/A
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: International Relations/History
Minor: Sociology/Philosophy
2008 to Present
Newstead College
NEWSTEAD, TAS
Graduated: 2007
Student status: Alumni
Major: Music
Clubs: Newstead College Christian Group
2006 to 2007
Jess. sketches and oddities. Posted at 2:04 PM Mar 11 view more
Today feels like a chance to choose. Today has a heavy heart. Today is the beginning of dreams and adventures, and it will be what I make it. Lying in bed this morning with half formed sentences and heart-ache prayers brought a kind of realisation.
Today I don’t feel ready for the world. I don’t think I’m ready to face the people, the words and the smiles. Today is a day for oceans. Crashing waves, ice cold, salt-smelling air to breathe, deeply. Things bigger than understanding. Dizzying leaps from high buildings, only to be caught and delivered safely into a new day, fresh with hope and shimmering opportunities. That’s what I feel like today.
2008. a collision, an explosion. A re-write of an easy life. Today is an opportunity to shape the future. To choose that the past will not define us. We will be found in the true places, where we find strength in believing. And in life, that is littered with heartbreak, and tragedy, we will find strength in knowing that we are not alone. We will find the beauty in this mess.
Today is a chance at significance. A chance to love, and be loved. To share joy, and pain. A chance to be honest, with questions and confusion, with opportunity and connection. Today is a new beginning. Today we are one, fixed together in vibrant harmonies. Bright, beautiful, messy, kaleidoscopic colours. Brand new grace.
In December TABERAH will be supporting Australias leading Heavy Metal band LORD when they return to Hobart! LORD are currently touring in support of their new album "Set in Stone" which is available now :o It's really good!!!!!
These shows are also the launch of the new Tabz EP entitled LIVE...ish HOPE YOU CAN MAKE IT :D
STRIPES OF LIGHT WILL SHINE even if i disappear: stripes of light will shine, traffic lights will bleed, block parties will resound, hearts will emit sonorous sounds.
even if i disappear, even if i disappear, stripes of light will shine.
(and, since you asked for these via a text I didn't reply to)
CHRISTMAS IN A CITY WE'VE NEVER BEEN TO My heart's a glowing mess - winter's sceptical face, life's unstatic march, too elusive to grasp.
We got out to watch the fog roll, Spanish whispers in the wind, John Mayer on the radio - well, we're both learning.
I loved the streets where she said, "Estoy en la ciudad. " Without eloquent ways of living, her eyes shimmered beautifully.
Paloma's vow of silence, sorrow's holy ground, funerals and the moon, broke with the final prayer.
Love has something to do with making people's lives better.
I have had a wonderful winter, and I don't remember having one of those ever before.
well, this morning, i stupidly decided to look at peoples profiles who don't like me. people from launnie. and that has pretty much made it final for me that i'm staying in qld.. i don't wanna be in a place where people are going to treat me like that. but i do miss launceston, so much.
me, i'm alright. my heart kinda sucks at the moment, and so does my mind. all i can think about is getting out of here. a couple of days where i had to work lately, i went home "sick" because i was in very hateful moods, and wanted to kill most of the customers, and people i work with. i guess i'm not too good at committing to things.
i've really forgotten about all the good in the world lately. i'm still disconnected from god. i hate it.
the other day, some primary school kids were in the mall singing christmas carols. it was nice and it reminded me of good, and god. but only breifly, as i was working, and that usually puts me in a pretty foul mood. especially when primary school mums decided they need to stand in my way and film their kids, while i'm trying to work.
i hope all is going well for you. i miss you, and i hate the idea of not seeing you for a very long time, but hopefully i can visit, and you can visit.
I'm sure they did appreciate the service. Often people don't show when they appreciate something, because they're wrapped up in their own mind at the time. It still reaches them, always.
My thoughts are definitely getting much lighter. I'm very much looking forward to not needing to think at all, and just be in the moment, always. It'll happen! (it's already happened.)
Need a haircut. Feel silly.
Discovered today that I passed everything, and did pretty well even. So that's nice. How did you do?
Oh no! I didn't get it till the morning. This is fairly disastrous.
But I'm glad you were warm.
I didn't do the report. I didn't know how to merge the files (or something). But this is not a problem. I'll figure it out now.
You're at work now, which is a strange thing to be doing. Standing at a counter selling jewellery to people. I hope they appreciate the service they're getting. Without you they might never find the perfect sparkles.
good morning jessica, ( you know, i don't think I've EVER called you jessica beofore. it felt weird. hmm) that blog comment you wrote me has officially bumped arien off the top scores list for longest blog comment ever. it was so lovely it made my morning, and I completely agree with that dawning feeling that steals up to you when you hear something and realise that you haven't created an alien world in your heart, it is compatible is small ways to every other human heart out there somehow. thats what it feels like to me anyway. i used to find that bit in ecclesiastes (isnt it? i can't quite recall) that "there is nothing new under the sun"? I used to think HOW depressing. nothing anyone can ever do now hasn't been done, thought or simulated already. but to think of it in the context of connection, it's the coolest. happy birthday eve, my dear, and i hope I'll see you soon. love anna
Hello Jess! How is your today. Night came and went and the sun rose and was trampled on by some rather forceful clouds and here we are now at Thursday afternoon!
I am well thank you though sad that the rain is gone. I owuld love it to come back but I'm not sure if it will.
I'm thinking about what to say at the heart plunge night tomorrow and have decided that I will present no polished talk but rather a heart filled verbal digress.
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