i leave to move into my apartment in Athens on tuesday. im stoked about all the possibilities, but all the uncertainties scare me a pretty good bit. im sad to leave so many friends here in Dalton, people whom i care a lot about, even if ive never told them that.

this is one of my favorite poems of all time. it speaks a lot to me.

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89). Poems. 1918.

Heaven—Haven
A nun takes the veil


I have desired to go

Where springs not fail,

To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail

And a few lilies blow.


And I have asked to be

Where no storms come,

Where the green swell is in the havens dumb,

And out of the swing of the sea.