nostalgia

Today we got the opportunity to just be kids again. At an installation on campus called "A Nostalgic Afternoon," we were able to crawl into a massive blanket and pillow fort and just remember what it was like to be a kid; when we could be a mermaid one day, a ballerina the day after, and a dinosaur after that. Kids know how to celebrate the small things in life because every new experience is an adventure and an eye opener. I will always be a child at heart because I like to always see the world through the wondrous eyes of a child. And don't be surprised if Lauren and I build a permanent blanket fort in our house next year. 

"A Nostalgic Afternoon" will be on display as a part of The Cohen New Works Festival on campus until March 29. Visit anostalgicafternoon.tumblr.com to read peoples' childhood memories and thoughts. 

Olivia

holding on

• I have this stuffed lamb named Lamby. He has a white jew fro on his small stuffed body and a pink nose meant for kissing. I am 19 and have not been able to let Lamby go, despite many efforts. Looking at Lamby today I wondered why we hold on to things so strongly. We are so unwilling to let go. We hold on for dear life to anything and everything we love or loved. We fight for them until there is no chance they can survive. I hold onto relationships like I hold on to lamby. I hate to say goodbye. Relationships fade but love doesn’t. Memories don’t. That is why we hold on. We hold on to things that provide us happiness whether past or present. Because love is endless, memories are infinite, and having faith in something gives you faith in yourself. So for now I’ll hold on to my jew fro’d lamb for everything he once gave me and everything he will. 

  
  

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dreaming of the beach

Photograph by Richard Rutledge, 1952.

play

Although it’s been awhile. Due to finals and life and what not it is a new year full of new beginnings and fresh resolutions so here's to a new post and many more in the future.

You know those moments you would give anything to rewind and do over. Those moments that make you sick to your stomach because you chose wrong. Those moments that you hurt the person you love most and would give anything to take back. Or what about those moments you wish you could pause and live in forever. The ones where you feel like the world around you could continue on but you in your bliss could stay forever on pause. Just feeling the moment of pure happiness. Whether your basking in the sun alone reading a book on the first day of spring, laying in the grass watching the clouds with your best friends, or resting your head on the love of your life hoping that the moment could just last forever. However we constantly try to fast forward the hard moments the ones that leave us fighting to stay afloat. We want to plan out every step of our future but why. Why is the future so important that it must be planned? In what aspect does that leave us to be who we are and create a life that’s meant for us.  However we are forced to live in play, without a pause button, without a rewind, without a fast-forward. We are forced to face the choices we make right or wrong. We are forced to leave behind the best moments in our lives to create new ones so that the old ones become memories. Life is on play and we have to face it. As hard as it can be sometimes as great as it can be we are forced to face it. So face it and create a life you never wish you had a remote for.

Lauren