you have to imagine it in Hugh Grant's soothing voice:

Yesterday, we initiated all of the new little Kappas. I loved it. I love them.

Today, I have to spend all day writing a research paper on sex slavery in Thailand. Although I think that everyone needs to learn about this kind of stuff so we can acknowledge and do something about it, it makes me more cynical than usual, even. You know those times that you feel like the world is a very depressing place and that there's no way in a million years you could ever do anything about it, and it's kind of true because we screw things up and Jesus is the one that makes them right? That is today.

It made me think of the move Love Actually, at the beginning when Hugh Grant is talking about the airport and life and stuff. And really, you have to see this movie. Even if you think it is going to suck, because it's mushygushychick-esque. Because most people I have made watch this movie have thought that and loved it. I think that means it has some kind of spiritual ties. (Weak and wounded sinner...). Anyway, he says this:

"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaking suspicion love actually is all around."



So here's to looking for it.

Love,
Mara