Come clouds and begin your joyful chant
Sweep in over hills and pour out your tearful rant
Eclipse the sun and turn day into night
So I might dream of the sun and of restored sight
* written in class, to the sound of thunder and rain.
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I live there, in Cheongju
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Words and Meaning
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket — safe, dark, motionless, airless — it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside of Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.
-C.S. Lewis
Long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard. There is much more metaphysical subtlety in the word "damn" than in the word "degeneration."
- G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
-C.S. Lewis
Long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard. There is much more metaphysical subtlety in the word "damn" than in the word "degeneration."
- G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
My Trip Around the World
I have a lot of friends
I like to go pretty places
I like to move
I live in a beautiful place
Korea's mountains in Fall
Jeju-do Cliffs
I live there, in Cheongju
who i am
- Jon
- My name is Jon. I live in South Korea because I think its an awesome place. I am moving back to America soon after a year abroad, and I am looking forward to some incredible changes, and some incredible adventures.
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Turning Pages: What I'm Reading
- The Ragamuffin Gospel - Brennan Manning
- Gone for Soldiers - Jeff Shaara
- The Great Divorce - C.S. Lewis
Books I have recently read
- Out of the Silent Planet - C.S. Lewis
- A Million Miles in a Thousand Years - Don Miller
- The Death of Conservatism - Sam Tanenhaus
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
- Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
- When You are Engulfed in Flames - David Sedaris
- Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
- Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
- The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
- The Giver - Lois Lowry
- The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
- The Death of Ivan Ilych - Leo Tolstoy
- The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
- Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
- Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
- To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
- Prince Caspian - C.S. Lewis
- Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
- Animal Farm - George Orwell
- The Stranger - Camus
- The Alchemist - Paulo Cohelo
- Democracy Matters - Cornel West
- A Walk Across America - Peter Jenkins
- Emerson - Selected Writings
- The Princess Bride - William Goldman
- The End of Poverty - Jeffrey Sachs
- Twelfth Night - Shakespeare
check out my pictures
Organizations I am involved with
Labels
- Africa
- airports
- ants
- around the world
- baptism
- bathrooms
- Beni
- bribery
- Congo
- Congolese Realities
- David Kasali
- Entebbe
- French
- honesty
- ignorance
- Jon Foreman
- Korea
- language class
- Leprosy Camp
- Les Miserables
- London
- malaria
- monkeys
- Nkunda
- Rebels
- reflection
- responsibility
- Sanyu Orphanage
- Spongebob
- Superbowl
- tarzan
- Teaching English
- Thailand
- Thunderstorm
- travel
- Uganda
1 comment:
Wow Jon, I loved reading your blog! The pictures made me want to go back to Thailand. I'm so jealous of all your new adventures, and as you so greatly put it, the opportunity to change. Stay safe.
Kate
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