archiving

- went to the burns library today with class to discuss our research projects in which we will be doing archival work. we have a plethora of graham greene letters and manuscripts. as well as gk chesterton and thomas merton. this makes my heart wildly excited. really looking forward to this project.

- it was -11 today. unacceptable. really cold. super not happy to wait for busses. or to even really exist. ha.

- i am out of coffee so i keep drinking english breakfast tea with milk and sugar. each time it reminds me of the caldwell household and how lovely it is to sit by the fire with hannah and discuss the important things of life.

- inspired by my archival endeavors i am into writing letters of late.

- soup is the only acceptable food to consume in these bitter winter days. as evidenced by this photo, ryan can make a damn good soup. i am thankful.

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the languour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! how quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! the zest, the generous affections, the illusions, the despair, all the traditional attributes of Youth - all save this - come and go with us through life; again and again in riper years we experience, under a new stimulus, what we thought had been finally left behind, the authentic impulse to action, the renewal of power and its concentration on a new object; again and again a new truth is revealed to us in whose light all our previous knowledge must be rearranged. these things are a part of life itself; but langour - the relaxation of yet unwearied sinews, the mind sequestered and self-regarding, the sun standing still in the heavens and the earth throbbing to our own pulse - that belongs to Youth alone and dies with it. - brideshead revisited