The Modesty Writers Guild

just completed LIFE AFTER GOD it actually has nothing to do with the title, actually the character believes in God. If you liked CATCHER IN THE RYE or PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER then you will enjoy this book. -stephen

please excuse the sudden urge to ramble. but its instant gratification. time moves on and so my feelings for anyone else fade, like sinatra. like a memory you forget until someone brings it up, like someone who lived and died 20 years ago with no fame. we all die the same, we are all born the same so what is fame? what is money? what is a promising future? what is this we call life. a dramatic interlude into the next life... i love it though, i cant lie. i go to sleep at night in anticipation for the sun to rise again, for the day to be broken, for new experiences to collaborate upon me. and now i have someone to share them with, but in all reality i have had someone to share them with. how easily we overlook our own family when calculating how lonely we truly are. i look at my youngest brother and realize that the state of mind that he is currently in reminds me of myself at his age. oh how i don't want to depress him any further by telling him the truth that no one ev...

"Ignorance is abounding always fresh within me. or, rather, it is more like parched ground. in which I must always water it with learning and studious reading. I am young, it is true, but I have a mind that longs for so much more.beyond the stereotype-like prison this society has built for my age. I have had a most blessed life, and have been raised in such a way that knowledge and wisdom has never been denied of me. (But I digress) Although I cannot share wisdom, for wisdom is of something learned through experience, I can share something I have always been taught by those whom I trust to be some of the wisest, most Godly people I have ever had the privilege to meet. God has a drawn up plan for our lives, the perfect plan. (I like to think of it as a strait line drawn on a plain white surface.) We can follow this strait line, or swerve off. When we sin, we are not following God's will for our lives, what he wanted us to do. (Although, the dramatics of this case m...

A Confused Identity "Pen names, a stage name, an alias, all conceal the identitiy of what is real. Hidden behind another name, preconceived notions and misconceptions are laid aside. Finally, freedom is obtained to be anything because nothing is expected. One becomes new, untainted by the past. For the past has faded away and only freshness remains. Samuel Langhorne Clemons is my hero for he understands my position. I like the brilliancy of writing to write rather than writing to be someone or something in someone's mind. For when one reads and knows not the person behind the words, it is only the words that are heard. And words want to speak without being judged. But eventually the pseudonym becomes someone and a warped reality prevails leaving the truth behind. Is it Samuel Langhorne Clemons or is it Mark Twain? And if he is Mark Twain, then who am I? Goodbye Modesty Blogspot" ~Katrina Marie Blank touche, it is not the writer but the writing...

' "why not go back to paris and find her?" "it couldn't work out. . ." why stephen, correct me if i'm wrong, but i do believe an intellectual decision has been made and with that decision i welcome you to the choice cult.' ~ marie touche marie, i have been outwitted yet once again -stephen

Frank Zappa once said: " It's better to have something to remember than nothing to regret..." *thanks ames for the quote(s)

" "its funny how i still look for qualities of her in other people, but the person she is now is confusing, and i was in love with who she was; not who she is. i would be chasing a pipe dream, a fairy tale which includes a time machine. " I have found that I do the same thing. Its hard to not compare someone to another that you liked so much. You just love every quality about that person who you "fell in love with" that you want someone to be the same so you still have the person you lost. "I personally call it lust at first sight since I think hormones play a bigger part than an instantaneous connection." I believe that is true. I don't really believe there is love at first sight. In my opinion I believe when you get to know someone you start to love them. So basically you are judging "the book by its cover" if you say it was love at first sight. Which many people deny they do but if you say it was love at ...

"Imagine Imagine there's no heaven, It's easy if you try, No hell below us, Above us only sky, Imagine all the people living for today... Imagine there's no countries, It isn't hard to do, Nothing to kill or die for, No religion too, Imagine all the people living life in peace... Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man, Imagine all the people Sharing all the world... You may say Im a dreamer, but Im not the only one, I hope some day you'll join us, And the world will live as one. " written by: John Lennon I think this is the communist manifesto put down into a song! *a brilliant song at that. i have been trying to learn this song, and one day it hit me. all the verses in the song have to do with either: brotherhood of man/no possessions/sharing all the world= the theory of no private property/ everyone working for common good with no one person greater. no religio...

"Very Cool Post from "k-****"!! I recognize "fear of ending up alone" you know, sometimes its so hard to trust God 100% and give your life over in His hands. Having no control about it, asking God to lead it. I really want to do that, this post did encourage me very much to trust God even more than I did, thank you k-**** " -lianne

"why not go back to paris and find her?" -marie it couldn't work out, she is not who she used to be at the days of the Eiffel. its funny how i still look for qualities of her in other people, but the person she is now is confusing, and i was in love with who she was; not who she is. i would be chasing a pipe dream, a fairy tale which includes a time machine. i am happy now, life moves on and i learn from the past. i used to tell people that i have no regrets, and would never regret anything in my life. now i see i just needed to grow up and realize that regrets are simply failures, and failures are a necessary part of life because we learn from our mistakes. if we keep making the same mistakes and never learning then we are a failure! so i can safely say i regret some things that i have done in my past but i have learned and don't ever count the memories as failures because i have learned... and moved on. -stephen

"Love at First Sight? Love at first sight? What do you mean love at first sight? Do you mean the 6?4? model I met at a dance club while I was on Spring Break? Do you mean the guy I stayed up all night with on the cruise ship so that we could watch the sun rise? Do you mean the summer fling that was ignited by Fourth of July fireworks? Or perhaps the stranger who noticed me while I was waiting at the bus stop ? the one who came and slipped his phone number into my hand and asked me to call him if I?d like to go out for coffee sometime. Maybe it was the boy who rode my bus in 5th grade that passed me a note asking if I would go out with him. Circle Yes No or Maybe. Maybe it is the man in this story. It is well past midnight. The others are probably wondering where we are, but I am in no rush to leave. In fact, I wish this moment would never end because I know I?d be happy staying in it forever. And I know you feel the same as you sit just above and beside m...

stephen christian acoustic* w/ guests the social orlando florida january 28, 2004 5$ 18+ more info @ www.orlandosocial.com or kyle@arsonmediagroup.com nick@arsonmediagroup.com tickets at door http://www.orlandosocial.com/calendar/index.cfm?date=%7Bts%20%272004%2D01%2D28%2000%3A00%3A00%27%7D&next=0&more=0&all=0

"I just borrowed Over the Rhine's "Ohio" CD from a friend. It's easily one of my new favorite cd's of 2003. Very good emotional music with powerful lyrics. Im totally referring it to all my friends. Right now that my type of musical taste, do you have any suggestions?" -ucfb what a great cd that is. Angela Griner loaned it to me and i was instantly hooked into the lyrics. if you are looking for more along those lines please do yourself the biggest favor and go buy damian rice "O". it is an amazing cd and anyone in to the slightest bit of singer/songwriters or folk really needs to aquire this. also try dennison whitmer, josh tillman, saxon shore, anything off the label "burnt toast vinyl", damian jurardo, pedro the lion, or angela griner. these are a good place to start.

"It's been a few months since I last sent you an email, but this is the first time I've felt the need to write something. I've always looked at myself as the one least likely in the world to ever fall in love, or much less be able to share the same feeling with that someone that I had fell for. In a previous post someone said that god has timing for true love. Up until a month ago I would have to say that True love was the biggest fraud of life. Afraid of failure and rejection, I secluded myself from the people who wanted to help me the most and from a world that wanted to make me just another mindless drone. It wasn't until I opened my heart to some of the ideas of friends that I truly began to live. I never believed in that dreaded four letter word fate and I still don't fully believe in it. But I truly believe that I have true love, and that it was partly through my decisions and through an act of fate. My next point is even if you feel you h...

"Fate First, Followed By Intellectual Decision Call it fate, call it divine appointment, call it whatever you would like. But whatever you call it, somehow lifeÂ’s circumstances have led you to someone. And they will continue to lead you to many different someone's. Some will make you weak in your knees, twitterpated if you will, others you will allow to pass by going unnoticed. But when someone does catch the attention of your heart and mind, choice steps in. Will he have the nerve to pursue this woman? Or will he allow intimidation and fear of rejection stand in his way? And how will she respond? Will she run from him in fear of falling in love and having her heart broken once more? Are both parties ready to be committed to someone else? Has he fallen for whom she really is or has her outward beauty seduced him? Has she fallen for him simply because he is showing her the attention she desires? Or has she fallen in love, not with his accomplishme...

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"...It's incredibly foolish and courageous to believe that there is someone out there created for you and only you. I guess that makes me a courageous fool. I have seen people in love, in a love that is so amazingly spectacular you know it's from God. That's what I want. I believe with every breath in me that God is a hopeless romantic. All he asks is that we wait on his timing, and if we do, he'll rip our lives apart with love from every angle. A love much bigger, stronger, greater than anything we could have asked for. Granted, taking such a leap of faith is easier said than done, but I refuse to settle for a relationship built on lust which arrogantly calls itself love. God knows all of me, he knows what I long for and what makes my heart smile. He is the one who gave my heart it's yearnings and desires. How awful would it be of me to believe that he's incapable of giving me someone who is not only all I've ever dreamt of, but more. Lettin...

' "maybe he is a she. yes! and she has fallen madly in love with me and is searching the god's for a way to become mortal, and we will live out our romance in the south of france for eternity. oh how suddenly am i in love with love! i now realize i am only in love, with love." That's so right. It's too right. I think it just hit me like a ton of bricks, it took a few readings. Here are some things I've found the past few days. "For love is blind and lovers cannot see" -- William Shakespeare Things are predetermined, right? loophole. I make mental lists of what I want in life, in my career. Like a self fulfilling prophecy, also known as the Pygmalion Effect. (Pygmalion, “who unhappy with the women in his city, decided to carve a statue to be his wife, Galeata. Aphrodite granted his wish that the statue come to life." And Hawthorne’s work, “Drowne’s Wooden Image”.) it's no wonder Dali's wife is named Galeata. Art d...

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"The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, The World's Most Astonishing Number" by Mario Livio. thanks J* for this tittle i will have to check it out/