It has been much too long since my last post, and I blame my new found social media love: twitter. In classic twitter style (limited to 140 characters), here's why I've been neglecting my blog and spending my time on twitter:

This is what I want for my birthday (you can take that to mean the painting, or the elephant...)

One of the big turning points in my life was in 10th grade when I went on a 6-week trip to Israel on an amazing youth Israel trip with an organization called Nesiya ("Journey" in Hebrew). For now I won't go into my experience on the trip or how it changed me, but I was just reminded of the essay I wrote to get into the program: I was supposed to write about a song or book that really spoke to me in some way. I chose the song "The World Ain't Slowin' Down" by Ellis Paul.