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prone to wander: February 2010
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010. I loved building this stuff. My dad even let me tinker around with his old school Lincoln Logs. This was the entirety of my existence as a child: to build shit. I was the most incredible mixture of content, inspired, and challenged by these toys. LEGO's and K'NEX were basically my baby sitter AND best friend. What an amazing combination! I was going to organize people's roads. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. React less. Pray more. This Is No Longer Me.
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This Is No Longer Me: Newer Life
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Friday, May 13, 2011. Today, I made beer with a good friend. A good friend who is on the "newer" side of my life. A lot of things are on the "newer" side of my life. A lot of people that I spend the most time with now are not the friends I spent the most time with while in college. A lot of the things I do in my spare time are not the things I did in my spare time in college. I appreciate and consider my family and their place in my life now more than I ever have before. And that's what happened. It is s...
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This Is No Longer Me: 01.2010
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Monday, January 18, 2010. I am taking 2 cinema classes this semester which each are requiring to watch or 'read' a combined total of at least 31 movies. And I think I'm actually really going to love that. I really love movies. I actually tend to call them 'films,' but not because I think it is more appropriate or actually means anything inherently different than 'movie' (although it very well may indicate something very different), but basically because I think it makes me sound more informed or cultured.
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This Is No Longer Me: 09.2010
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Thursday, September 2, 2010. Sometimes I really struggle to define what it is within me that makes me a Christian; what it is inside of anyone that makes them a Christian. Being a Christian is an individual stamp that lies on the hearts of those who have it; it isn't something you get simply by being in the right places at the right times with the right peoples. It is something that is specifically true or not true of YOU. Defining what is happening or has happened to make or maintain a person a Christia...
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This Is No Longer Me: Failing
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010. I live in an environment where the idea of failing is brutally scary. Failing, specifically in an educational setting, carries both an individual and communal aspect to it. There are, of course, other ideas and applications of the term failing. In general, to fail at something means that not only did you not do something particularly well but whatever you did was so poor that it wasn't even acceptable. It is beyond sad. It is sad because it isn't true. It is sad because th...
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This Is No Longer Me: 03.2011
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Thursday, March 31, 2011. 10:21pm. And I lay in bed. First of all, I have to confess that my bed isn't really a bed-bed. It's a futon with a thick mattress that I never fold into a futon. I just thought it wouldn't be fair for you to be daydreaming about my current environment and have that detail be all wrong. Secondly, I find myself constantly reverting back to a desire for progress. Peanuts. All our progress will be peanuts. But that isn't the only story we think about. We have 2 billion people all th...
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This Is No Longer Me: New Sel(ves)
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Thursday, December 2, 2010. Transitioning out of college has not been the smoothest thing for me. By no means has it been awful, but it has been a substantial adjustment. It has been a challenge to find the best ways to invest myself and find a healthy rythm that is feels more life-giving than life-restraining. I am now slowly trying to reinstitute habits and disciplines that I have been frustrated and antagonistic with for the past year or so. Principally, this includes reading sections of the bible...
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This Is No Longer Me: 05.2011
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Friday, May 13, 2011. Today, I made beer with a good friend. A good friend who is on the "newer" side of my life. A lot of things are on the "newer" side of my life. A lot of people that I spend the most time with now are not the friends I spent the most time with while in college. A lot of the things I do in my spare time are not the things I did in my spare time in college. I appreciate and consider my family and their place in my life now more than I ever have before. And that's what happened. It is s...
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This Is No Longer Me: 12.2010
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Thursday, December 2, 2010. Transitioning out of college has not been the smoothest thing for me. By no means has it been awful, but it has been a substantial adjustment. It has been a challenge to find the best ways to invest myself and find a healthy rythm that is feels more life-giving than life-restraining. I am now slowly trying to reinstitute habits and disciplines that I have been frustrated and antagonistic with for the past year or so. Principally, this includes reading sections of the bible...
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prone to wander: February 2009
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009. Tension. Conflict. Imbalance. All of these words are fun. (not true). But I can't escape them. To be the Inspiration.Or the inspired? This search is enjoyable. (also, not true). But I love what happens inside of me. Stories of entrepreneurs, artists, wanderers, creators, and dreamers are stories that I hold onto. I cherish them, I write them down, I live vicariously through them, and I share in admiring their work with others. May I be thankful. Saturday, February 7, 2009.