Cest Moi

Hello world.


Student and Literary glutton.
Question, seek, explore, let go, rejoice.


MY NAME IS ARIANA CUNNINGHAM, AND HERE BELOW IS MY CYBER BRAIN MATTER POURED FORTH SO AS TO NEVER LOSE THEM. NOT TO MENTION THAT AFTER EACH ENTRY I FEEL MUCH BETTER. IT TAKES OUT QUITE A BIT OF THE RESENTMENT AND REBELLION AND OBSESSION AND DISCOURAGEMENT AND EXCITMENT WHICH EXTEND BEYOND MY CAPACITY. "THAT'S THE CHIEF USE OF A DIARY, I BELIEVE."
What i want to do.
  1. Hold a firefly. 
  2. Eat a tree ripened banana 
  3. Really really really learn to speak spanish
  4. play the harmonica with strangers and always have a guitar on hand. 
  5. Take a solo journey for myself by myself into the woods for a week solid. isolation, myself, my bible, my harmonica, my journal, and food of course. 
  6. Be a person of integrity with God being that single intent 
  7. Marry my best friend and have fabulous adventures and go skinny dipping every night. 
  8. Heal people, take medical care to somewhere that really needs it, relieve suffering. 
  9. Become ambidextrous. 
  10. Ride an elephant. 
  11. Live in spain. 
  12. Do what i dream of doing before the dream fades and i cant feel the burn.


"We do not want merely to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words — to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it." CS Lewis
CHRISTIAN HEDONISM. WHAT WE TRULY DESIRE AND WHAT GOD WILLED FOR US ARE ONE IN THE SAME. GOD IS MOST GLORIFIED IN US WHEN WE ARE MOST SATISFIED IN HIM. This is not a religion, but rather a relationship with joy at its heart, that i follow.




I feel a necessity to draw, visual journal, swim and drizzle honey as often as possible, eat dark dark dark chocolate while falling asleep with a book, hum, study, meet strangers, listen to 'Jazz for Kids' stop, lose my cell phone often enough to feel a stranger to technology isolated from the world, and above all i am attempting to seek after a relationship with God. That is the compass of my life, to be a person of pure intent, and having discovered my deepest desire base all my decisions off of the compass directed heavenward... sounds rather lofty... but shoot for the moon... and hopefully make it!I want to join in the beauty of life and of God...or maybe the two are one in the same?    
              













Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about yourself.
-XX Enders Game


If i had a cat, one who i raised from kittenhood to be especially plump and enjoy snuggling while i read, then i would be a cat person. At the moment however, i have not met one to my liking....the lack of history makes me nervous.













A GLORIOUS ABSENCE OF MORTALITY....this is what  the sight of fireflies impart unto me.
I had only ever read about them until this summer of my 19th year.... it was a very good year.
“What is life? Is it the flash of a firefly at night?” 


i am directionally challenged. this has led me to an innumerable amount of gas stations. thank you to all the gas station attendees of the world. you are the cream of society. top notch. superb bipeds..





THOUGHT AS IT OUGHT TO LOOK:  Like the bird who flies over the field without thought to the fences underneath.... or that dreamy, i-just-woke-up-but-still-cant-commit-to-reality sloppy grin...



Tintin is SUCH a man.... in fact it is against him that i compare all other males in my life. There is no helping it... it just pops into my head; "hmmm, now i wonder what Tintin would have done in that situation." or "Tintin would never have said that."


Not the house of my dreams, but i would consider this as a very close runner up. Live here, and drink hot chocolate every day for the rest of my life! Ginger snaps abound, 



books literally dripping off the walls and spilling all about the stairwell.  


















Studying abroad next semester, in Florence Italy.









Friendship is unsurpassable.







Not an exaggeration.















Ginger Peach or Seattle Market Spice.

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...a joy as intense as pain