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About Me

my random ponders: http://beautiful-mess-blog.blogspot.comLife cannot be understood on a flat page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to fall in love, has to jump off bridges into rivers, has to stand in an empty desert and whisper sonnets under his breath..."-Donald Miller

My Interests

Brian Regan Emergency Room-- Part 1Emergency Room-- Part 2

I'd like to meet:

the people who made these videos:Also: Jason Russell, Laren Poole, and Bobby Bailey--founders of "Invisible Children."

Music:

Movies:

The Ron Clark Story, Stranger Than Fiction, Freedom Writers, Fever Pitch, Dead Poets Society, Love Actually, Pride & Prejudice, Moulin Rouge, Patch Adams, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Best In Show, Les Miserables, Never Been Kissed, Remember the Titans, The Mighty Ducks, The Count of Monte Cristo.

Television:

The Office, Arrested Development, The West Wing, and Lost... also, I'm a fan of the BBC "Planet Earth" series. It's amazing!

Books:

Harry Potter, Ender's Game, Eragon, Everything Is Illuminated, Sideways Stories From Wayside School, Calvin and Hobbes, The Twilight Saga, Redeeming Love, Blue Like Jazz, A New Kind of Christian, Phillip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy.

Heroes:

Ron Clark and Brother Andrew (author of "God's Smuggler")

My Blog

Memoriam

I got this in an email. It's really long, but I thought it was good... Subject: MemoriamIt is a matter of history that when Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Dwight Eisenhower, fo...
Posted by megan on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 09:24:00 PST

my new blog

I never thought I'd become a blogger. This was mainly because I didn't see the point in posting my own personal thoughts for the world to see. But over the past few months, I've been wrestling with s...
Posted by megan on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:07:00 PST

* * Because I told Lindsey that I would...

Last night Linds and I were talking about stupid MySpace quizzes and how I've been doing them lately. She told me about the million-question quiz on her blog, and I told her I'd do it. So here's more...
Posted by megan on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:29:00 PST

mAkiNg a diFFeRencE... all the way to WAshington DC

..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> It's been three months since Displace Me and we've been working hard to see peace in Uganda. Millions are still displac...
Posted by megan on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:21:00 PST

to be extraordinary.

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be br...
Posted by megan on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 11:25:00 PST

* * DisplaceMe update * *

..> On April 28th, more than 68,000 of you came to be counted. In masses you left your homes and left your comforts to displace yourself for the displaced in Northern Uganda. Your willingness to...
Posted by megan on Tue, 15 May 2007 06:48:00 PST

meet my new child!!

Anyone who knows me well (or has looked at my profile lately) knows that my heart has been breaking for Africa. For the past couple of months, my eyes have been opened to the truth about the atrociti...
Posted by megan on Sun, 13 May 2007 05:20:00 PST

two worlds... no longer apart...

So as of late, I've had Africa on the brainspecifically the people of Uganda. Though they are 6,000 miles away, the truth about their plight is finally beginning to reach the hearts of the American p...
Posted by megan on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 03:42:00 PST