Blanda Photography: Mobile Photos

2008-06-14T20:33:00.001-05:00

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Death, coping with loss.

2008-01-28T00:18:00.000-06:00

I am on retreat today and one of the things we talked about was challenging ourselves to do something. So I have decided to deal with the death of my uncle. It has been very hard on my dad, and it scares me how much he has changed. Death is the end of our time here on earth, but I believe that theses is some thing more to what happens after death. We don't just start to pot away in the ground. We are exalted in God's glory, or whatever higher power one believes in. I don't know what lies beyond but i do know that it is better that this life. But the only way to get there is to live this life the best we can and hope that when it comes down to it we have done what we were called to do and it was our time to become bigger than our bodies.

2008-01-24T13:25:00.000-06:00

2007-10-25T09:30:00.001-05:00

this is how our case drum looks. Its in disrepair. Dispicable!

Illinois toll road

2007-10-23T20:13:00.001-05:00

This is the view from the illinois toll road. I took it on the way back from my recent trip to ohio. My uncle died and we drove there. 2 days in the car. It was exhausting. Beautiful landscapes. More later!

In memoriam

2007-10-06T14:32:00.001-05:00

My uncle died this morning. I will be driving to Ohio around noon tommorow. I am going to be a palbearer for the funeral. It's going to be hard, and I don't like funerals, they remind me of my own mortality. I just wish it would be easier. I will be missing a week of school, and I am going to be so far behind, not to mention not going to rehersal for a week. Please hold me and my family in your prayers.

Our Judicial System

2007-10-05T21:56:00.000-05:00

If you follow this link, on 20/20, these boys were arrested. This is ridiculous, I can't believe this can even happen. If this is what America is going to turn in to. If this sort of thing will become commonplace, I don't want to live here.

MacBook Pro

2007-07-03T22:40:00.000-05:00

This is amazing. I want to get one so bad. I was at the apple store and got to try out a MacBook Pro and my dad just bought a MacBook. It is so amazing. As you pull the Notebook out of the box you can feel the power. Unpacking the components brought such a thrill. As you bring the magsafe power cord up to the laptop you can feel it being drawn into place. It's amazing! When you turn it on it takes literally two seconds to boot, not like my old windows system that takes about two minutes. I can't believe it. So cool, so cool! Tiger is amazing and i can't wait for leopard. More will come.

Alli: Gross

2007-06-26T14:20:00.001-05:00

I have forgiven, I have forgotten.

2007-06-24T03:35:00.000-05:00

I have forgiven; all those who made fun of me, all those who hurt me, the hateful words used against me, the people who think that they are better than me, those that don't care about me, those that forgot about me, all the wrongs that people have commited against me. It's hard to do but i forgive every one, for every thing, whatever it is that you did to me. I forgive you, all of you. I have had too much weight on my shoulders. That is why i am wrighting this. To releve myself of the burdon of carrying all of my grudges around. I give them all away, into the ether. To be washed away and never be remembered.

Alli: this stuff is crazy

2007-06-20T18:50:00.001-05:00

Rain Running

2007-05-23T15:51:00.001-05:00

After running in the rain!

Sun

2007-05-22T20:09:00.001-05:00

2007-05-21T17:35:00.001-05:00

More stupidity. A fire hydrant at my school. The only one and it doesn't work.

2007-05-21T17:14:00.001-05:00

Cool sun set.

2007-05-20T04:09:00.001-05:00

Crazy color pallet. I used this pallet in a project at school. I risked getting my phone taken away to take this photo and i know the shot is not that great, but i love this photo. The colors were so amazing!

Made to Inspire Fear

2007-05-20T02:12:00.000-05:00

You can hear the war drums bangin'
Bangin' in the street
Hear the gravel crunchin'
Under weary feet
And you will hear the bullets whizzin'
Whizzin' through the air
These are the sounds of WAR they are
Made to inspire fear!

Our Brothers and our sisters are diein' in the street
Fighting for our freedom under scorching heat
We sure as hell are grateful oh, can't you see
But these stupid war games they just make no sense to me.

Oh, the gears of war are changin'
Changin' day to day
The way that we are livin'
Will never be the same
Listen to them fightin'
Fightin' all day long
Just think of the likely-hood
You'll be dead by dawn.

Oh, my brothers and my sisters,
Our mothers and our fathers
lovers and every others,
Is this the way we want to live
Is this the gift we want to give?

I can hear the war drums bangin'
Bangin' around the world
hear the gravel crunchin'
Under Army boots
And you will feel the bullets whizzin'
Whizzin' through your body
These are the sounds of DEATH AND WAR
Made to inspire fear!

Oh, the cogs of war are changin'
Changin' every day
The way that we are Lovin'
will never be the same
Listen to them killin'
Killin' each other off
Just think of all the carnage
They'll all be dead by dawn!

Our Brothers and our sisters are diein' all around
Fighting for each other under watching eyes
We sure the hell are great full no you can't believe
But these stupid war games will never make sense to me!

2007-05-20T01:50:00.001-05:00

God's penis. I used to think god was gender neutral. But as you can see he is very male. Love to all!

The War in Iraq

2007-05-19T15:09:00.000-05:00

John Fitzgerald Kennedy wrote that "A man does what he must — in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers, and pressures — and that is the basis of all human morality." -Profiles in Courage (1956) We as Americans feel united under our liberties that we receive just by being born in a free country. Americans are brought up in not knowing consequence. On September 11, 2001 we learned that our actions do have consequences. We start to take our civil liberties for granted at an early age and I do not believe that we fully understand them. We are never really taught what we have been born in to. Americans do not fully understand their rights under the Constitution, and the rights of our government under that same Constitution. A few days ago in Minnesota a bill was passed through legislation that banned all smoking in public places. I believe that this is some what unconstitutional. Just by saying that it was a matter of public health. The same goes for the War in Iraq. Our president said that invading Iraq was in the interest of Public Safety. He said that he had intelligence on weapons of mass destruction, what he didn't say is that he had the proof of purchase from when America sold them the WMDs. We sold them Poison gas and other destructive chemical compounds along with guns and accessories. We have been brought into a war that is completely unjustified. It greatly worries me that the president is trying to increase the troops being sent to Iraq because in all other major wars this has led to a draft. Being seventeen, the idea of a draft scares me. I would never be willing to kill another person. It is completely against my morals. I am also afraid of dying. Some of my family members are fighting in the war. I support them in their decision to fight for our liberties, but I do not agree with the reason behind the war. The money that is being spent on the war could be better spent on things here in the homeland. It seems to me that we are wasting our time in Iraq. Didn't the President already say that the mission was accomplished?

"Let us learn our lessons. […] Never believe any war will be smooth and easy or that anyone who embarks on that strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events… incompetent or arrogant commanders, untrustworthy allies, hostile neutrals, malignant fortune, ugly surprise, awful miscalculations."-Winston Churchill; quoted in Fein, Leonard, "This Time It's Our War"

"War does not end strife - it sows it. War does not end hatred - it feeds it. For those who argue war is a necessary evil, I say you are half right. War is evil (where strife, there every evil work: Bible, James 3:16). But it is not necessary. War cannot be a necessary evil, because non-violence is a necessary good. The two cannot co-exist." -US Congressman John Lewis

Stupidity

2007-05-19T15:02:00.001-05:00

Covering up the fire extinguisher

Stupidity

2007-05-19T14:20:00.001-05:00

I figure that whomever wrote this had little education. Its troubling to me that people don't proof read and recognize problems like this. "Display do not sale", I am guessing that it was supposed to say "Display Do not Sell". Oh well.