April 25, 2003

  • Please forgive me everyone if my lack up updates has upset any of you. I’ve been incredibly busy as of late and now I find myself with the time I need to write a blog for you.


    Tomorrow is the Formal Dance at the Territorial Prison. I’m VERY much looking forward to that, I got a really neat tuxedo thingy similar to what Kurt Russell is wearing below:



    except I’m not wearing a hat and I don’t have a pocket watch. It is basically a tuxedo with a short duster-style jacket. Pretty nice. My hair is long enough now that I can pull it back too. It’ll be a new look for me. My date’s name is Melissa, a really nice girl from my church. I don’t know her too well but we talk a lot when we see each other so I suppose I could call her a friend. Ha! Most of you jumped and thought “girlfriend!” Sorry to disappoint but remember, it’s ME were talking about, the 20-year wonder. So yeah, that’s my weekend. Other than that things are ok. Pretty soon I’m getting together with friends and we are either going to go to the Activity Center or run around in the underground tunnels and shoot each other with dart guns. Lot’s o’ fun for sure. Hmm. . .  what else. … I can’t think of anything. Oh yeah. Anyone ever heard of the Roman caesar Marcus Aurelius? He was the emperor that was murdered in “Gladiator”. . . anyways I have a book that has Plato, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius in it. I found one of his passages to be especially true to me. Here it is:


    “Anything which is in any way beautiful is beautiful in itself, and terminates in itself, not having praise as part of itself. Neither worse then nor better is a thing made by being praised. . . That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty. . . Is such a thing as an emerald made worse than it was, if it is not praised?”


    So yeah, if no one has ever told any of you that you are beautiful, that does not mean that you are not. I know a great many women and they are all beautiful and though I haven’t told them all that I think this way I hope they do not think that they are not beautiful simply because their ears have not confirmed it. In fact, when I do tell a woman that she is beautiful, I find it difficult to say it without insulting that very quality with something as vulgar and undeserving as words. Beauty is something I treasure and I feel that it is a tremendous honor to not only have beheld the sight of someone beautiful but to be able to call them a friend is something I would not trade for anything. So to all of my female friends out there: well, do I really need to say it? You all are precious to me ya know. Thank you for everything you all have brought me.

Comments (9)

  • It’s sad, is it not, that a woman finds it difficult to believe she is beautiful, unless someone tells her so? I think that a woman should see herself as a form of perfection, curves, dips and valleys, with a brain that can think wonderful things, and a heart that can feel amazing things. Why should one doubt their worth? I’m a firm believer that before one can truly love someone else they must truly love themselves first. -Kate

  • Amen! Contrary to popular belief, it is not selfish, egotistical, or vain to think of oneself as beautiful. The only way it becomes so is if you let that fact consume your life. It takes great strength and searching to find beauty in one’s self sometimes but once you do you see things a whole new way. Love you all!

  • Thanks, Jakey, those were really nice things to say about all your female friends.  I appreciate it.  I am glad you are going to a dance–I hope you have lots of fun!  Take some pictures in your tuxedo so I can see them when you come home…I still have to get used to the idea that you have long hair, since I haven’t seen you since August!  I do have one question though…what is the Territorial Prison?  Have tons of fun when you go to the dance! :)

  • The Territorial Prison is the old prison that was used back when Wyoming was a territory and not a state. I hear it is really cool, really old-fashioned 1800s stuff and all. Yee haw!

  • That sounds like an awesome place to go!  I wish I could too…but I don’t think I am going to make the 20 or so hour trip…

  • Cool…ya Im from Colorado, Katy is my cousin.

  • sounds like things are going well….. i get the general “happy” impression from that entry……

    it’s beautiful outside! it’s intoxicating!!!

  • hope you have/had fun at the dance… lol see you in four weeks…

  • have a wonderful time…I bet you’ll look great in your tux.  I love guys that go with the untraditional tuxes…my brother picked a no-button coat for his prom…gotta love men who stand out

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