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of orchids and such skip to main skip to sidebar of orchids and such vast unmeasured boundless free friday january 2 2009 new beginnings semper augustus in the spirit of the shedding of the old embracing of the new attitude of the season i m going to largely but not completely abandon my journaling here on of orchids and such this is part of a new year shift that began for me earlier this year that i d like to continue with into 2009 this shift includes reading more writing more letters being more intentional about investing in tangible relationships wherever in the world i might find myself and generally spending less time piddling around on the web i ve begun a stripped down variation over at wordpress which will be less commentary about me and my life and more about linking to current events news other blogs and miscellaneous interestings it s also possible that i m going to begin writing literature reviews for captain obvious in an effort to get his indie kids into reading books of substance so keep your eyes peeled there as well i ll leave you with the tracklist for this year s mix i ve titled it semper augustus in honor of a beautiful extinct flower and maybe for other reasons as well i ll be making the mix available online for select friends and relations to those of you i love and cherish enjoy semper augustus 1 walking the dodos 2 souveniers architecture in helsinki 3 wedding dress samamidon 4 oh la ra ra riot 5 blood the middle east 6 whole wide world wreckless eric 7 alone again or love 8 anna hello saferide 9 eraser no age 10 ain t no sunshine bill withers 11 robocop kanye west 12 california stars billy bragg and wilco 13 furr blitzen trapper 14 dreaming of me depeche mode 15 willow tree chad vangaalen 16 on tour with zykos okkervil river 17 the modern leper frightened rabbit 18 1981 the tough alliance posted by benjamin at 8 39 am 14 comments monday november 3 2008 l abri autumn 2008 so it s been rather difficult to get in much blogging time here at l abri most of the time i have to pay to use the internet and i m intentional and brief when i do get on this thing however i ve spent this afternoon uploading some photos for your viewing pleasure my time here at l abri has been insert a thousand adjectives eventful i ve come through a difficult time of work and vocation exploration and now have begun reading books i want to read and having conversations i want to have as opposed to feeling like i need to do these things like i did when i first came i think i ve become less stressed and better at holding things in tension if nothing else and there are other things i ve learned this now i m looking forward to going home but trying not to give too much head space to this and live here and drink in being here every day until i have to leave i m not sure what s next for me but i think i m okay with that for now sadly my absentee ballot never came in the mail so i ll have to sit back and watch tomorrow s election unfold without contributing a vote of my own lord be with us all much love from beautiful switzerland b posted by benjamin at 7 13 am 2 comments monday september 22 2008 mademoiselle dicristina lily sofia dicristina originally uploaded by mark dicristina meet lily sofia dicristina the newest addition to the dicristina clan lily was born to my brother and sister in law just before midnight on monday september 15 she weighed 9 lbs 8 oz at birth and was 21 inches long she allegedly has long fingers and a dimple on one side not sure which one mother and child are healthy and as far as i can tell mark and monica are loving being parents and mom and dad despite the unavoidable reality check are loving being grandparents when i spoke to mark the other day he was saying things like she s really cool and i m not as tired as i thought i d be as much as it pains me to be away from family during these first moments of my first niece s life i m oh so grateful for the effortlessness of communication it makes her delicacy newness and beauty not seem quite so far away what a miracle her life and likewise all life is even though i haven t held her heard her or really even seen her i feel a gush of love for her mark michael and i never had a sister and my parents never a daughter so ms lily will undoubtedly be one cherished and special little girl here s to two proud parents two proud grandparents and two unspeakably proud uncles here s to new life and to you lily sofia i love you and can t wait to meet you posted by benjamin at 6 42 am 4 comments monday august 4 2008 disappearing act posted by benjamin at 4 43 am 4 comments friday july 18 2008 my niece so as a result of my decision to stay on at l abri as a helper for the fall term means that i won t be stateside for the birth of my neice lily sophia dicristina this is a big moment for my family the first child of my brothers and i and it pains me knowing that i won t be around for lily s arrival i suppose i m doing some pre grieving and public acknowledgment that i feel terrible that i will miss the occasion the photo above was taken at the mac store in lausanne yesterday the stupid computer wouldn t let me on the internet except for looking at apple com so i opened the mail application and downloaded three months worth of emails onto the computer just to read a couple new ones one of the emails i received was from mark who with my sister in law are expecting in september as he had taken several photos of their handsome pooch arthur with his fancy new camera i stuck my favorite one on the desktop and smiled posted by benjamin at 3 26 am 2 comments sunday july 13 2008 greatest show ever sigur ros for free so after my last post i mentioned that i would either be going to see paul simon in montreux or sigur ros in lausanne several of you asked which show i ended up at and i m pleased to say that a friend and i both got into see sigur ros with just one ticket before i saw them i would have said that if i could see any band in the world i d see sigur ros thankfully it lived up to my expectations it was perhaps the best show i ve ever been to it was happy and sad and so beautiful so here s the scoop i drove to lausanne with a friend who has a car and we were totally lost in the city so we were asking people for directions and no one spoke english so we ended up asking this guy and he was going to the show which was crazy because we were on the total opposite end of the town and we d have never found the venue without dude we took him in our car and he told us that a friend of his might have a couple tickets he called and said his friend only had one so we waited around and a histerical woman sold us a ticket for the original price 60 francs and waited for dude s friend to show up ten minutes later his friend called and said his girlfriend would be coming with him and so he didn t have a ticket mega let down so we still had only one we were begging and cajoling the security to just let us in or let us pay ticket price or something but to no avail so i told eric to go ahead and go in and he did fifteen minutes later he felt bad and came out and asked the security if i could go in if he came out they reluctantly said yes so i walked in and i guess they had a flush of compassion because they let eric back in after me so i got in without a ticket to see sigur ros in switzerland it was amazing arvo part says that music should be thought of more as texture than structure meaning that it should be a place for people to dwell not just notes for people to appreciate the theory or aesthetic i think this is what i like about sigur ros i have no idea what they re saying but i can feel the sheer emotion pulsing through so clearly and it takes me up so beautiful this is a video of the show i took that night it s the first couple minutes of saeglopur which is one of my faves make sure you turn your volume down before you play it as it was quite loud inside the venue posted by benjamin at 6 05 am 4 comments wednesday july 9 2008 photographie evening at the targets with magda another evening at the targets with a friend curtis from oklahoma one cold cloudy day moonrise over the l argentine ridge afternoon hike at solalex my temporary home taken outside chalet chesalet where i eat some of my meals lovely swiss cows their bells ringing day and night downstairs at farel house our library chapel taken at la gourmandine the last time i posted jongmoon above at right was teaching everyone a south korean game cousin magda this was taken at the targets the night of her one year anniversary we drank ollon s finest pinot noir in memory of joel this is the view from my room the first day i arrived so i ve decided to stay on at l abri as a helper for the fall term which means i won t be back stateside until december i don t know how it ended up that i came for ten days and will now be staying for six months but it just did lots of theology philosophy and vocation specific exploration in the coming months thanks to everyone for your prayers and well wishes a friend from california has a car here and this afternoon we re deciding which of two concerts to go to and try and scalp for tickets sigur ros in lausanne or paul simon at the montreaux jazz festival my heart hurts at taking one over the other but we shall see what eventualizes i must sign off for now but i ll post more photos and life commentary soon much love from la suisse posted by benjamin at 3 10 am 9 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom me benjamin huemoz switzerland i m currently a student in a work study program in the swiss alps i m intentional about enjoying life and i exist fairly well these are the thoughts of my life enjoy view my complete profile blog archive 2009 1 january 1 new beginnings semper augustus 2008 25 november 1 september 1 august 1 july 3 june 3 may 2 april 1 march 4 february 6 january 3 2007 24 december 4 november 5 october 8 september 4 august 2 may 1 2006 8 december 1 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