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rhonda lynn

everything starts where it ends.

About Me

i am in that strange place between childhood and adulthood, also known as my twenties. i'm learning much about loss and hope and love. i love music and reading the classics and talking about god and all the things that make us human.i love my family; my parents are my heros and my siblings are my best friends. i love being young and having my whole life ahead of me, but what i want more than anything is to be a wife and mother.i have been a barista for three years and am somewhat of a coffee/tea snob. autumn is my very favorite season. it's when all the leaves reveal the glory they have always had.i value authenticity and balance. it makes me sad when people judge me for something i do or say instead of for my heart.i just moved to marion, indiana for grad school. i'm fully experiencing the joy of being in my twenties and i wouldn't have it any other way.

My Interests

jesus, music, art, literature, poetry, coffee, tea, autumn, flip flops, lake michigan, board games, late nights with amazing people.

I'd like to meet:

you.

Music:

a camp, al green, albert hammond, jr., allison krauss, amos lee, andrew bird, the arcade fire, azure ray, badly drawn boy, the band, b.b. king, the beach boys, the beatles, beck, belle and sebastian, ben taylor, billie holiday, the black heart procession, bob dylan, bonnie prince billy, broken social scene, the byrds, caitlin cary, calexico, the cardigans, cat power, clap your hands say yeah, clem snide, coldplay, counting crows, the cure, damien jurado, damien rice, the damnwells, david gray, david bazan, the decemberists, denison witmer, devendra banhart, dido, donavon frankenreiter, the eagles, eisley, ella fitzgerald, elliott smith, elton john, emmylou harris, eric clapton, etta james, eva cassidy, feist, the flaming lips, fleetwood mac, frou frou, gillian welch, great lake swimmers, guster, hem, imogen heap, iron and wine, jackson browne, jackson5, james taylor, jars of clay, the jayhawks, jeff buckley, jenny lewis, john legend, john mayer, johnny cash, jolie holland, joni mitchell, josé gonzález, josh ritter, joshua radin, justin timberlake, kathleen edwards, keane, kings of convenience, lauryn hill, louis armstrong, lovedrug, luke temple, lynyrd skynyrd, m. ward, margot and the nuclear so and so's, mark kozelek, matt pond pa, mewithoutyou, miles davis, mirah, moby, modest mouse, my morning jacket, nada surf, neil young, neko case, neutral milk hotel, nick drake, nico, norah jones, old 97's, over the rhine, patty griffin, pernice brothers, pete yorn, the polyphonic spree, the postal service, rachel yamagata, radiohead, ray charles, ray lamontagne, red house painters, regina spektor, rilo kiley, rocky votolato, rosie thomas, rufus wainwright, ryan adams and the cardinals, the shins, sigur ros, simon and garfunkel, sixpence none the richer, the strokes, sufjan stevens, sun kill moon, tom petty, travis, u2, the wallflowers, the weakerthans, wilco, wolf parade, yeah yeah yeahs.

Movies:

east of eden, pride and prejudice, the royal tenenbaums, breakfast at tiffany's, vanilla sky, love actually, serendipity, about a boy, elizabethtown, moulin rouge, to end all wars, big fish, garden state, amalie, rushmore, emma, say anything, all audrey hepburn movies

Television:

lost. the office. seinfeld. freaks and geeks.

Books:

east of eden, velvet elvis, messy spirituality, mere christianity, my name is asher lev, brave new world, 1984, the catcher in the rye, the great divorce, the chronicles of narnia, pretty much anything c.s. lewis, the giver, alas babylon, nathanael hawthorne's short stories, franny and zooey, anything by edith wharton and john steinbeck.

Heroes:

jesus. my parents. karin bergquist (over the rhine). lisa hannigan (damien rice).

My Blog

timshel

"Maybe you'll come to know that every man in every generation is refired. Does a craftsman, even in his old age, lose his hunger to make a perfect cupthin, strong, translucent? All impurities burned ...
Posted by rhonda lynn on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:09:00 PST

time to move on

i find that God seems to speak to people in unique ways. many times in my own life, God seems to speak to me through songs. i can point to specific times in my life where i have had a revelation while...
Posted by rhonda lynn on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:52:00 PST

one day when i'm all grown up . . .

every weekday morning a group of people in their late forties/early fifties come into my coffee shop, buy coffee and the paper, and sit and read and talk together. there is a married couple, one of th...
Posted by rhonda lynn on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 02:02:00 PST

i need him.

i want to fall in love with jesus again. i want to be where i was ten months ago. everything was so new, so fresh. i was content, full of joy. things were simple. i had faith like a child. and then i ...
Posted by rhonda lynn on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 06:11:00 PST

10 to 1

10 Bands/Artists you love1. cat power2. ryan adams3. over the rhine4. hem5. wilco6. margot & the nuclear so & so's7. damien jurado8. sun kil moon9. jenny lewis10. sigur rós9 Things you're looking forw...
Posted by rhonda lynn on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 07:00:00 PST

stolen cds.

i've been making a list of all of the (non-burned) cds that were stolen from my car. i know i'm missing some, but this is the list as it stands:Alison Krauss "Now That I've Found You"Amos Lee "Amos ...
Posted by rhonda lynn on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 08:21:00 PST

my heart is full.

do you ever cry for what seems like no reason?i have found that sometimes God takes me through seasons of isolation, from others as well as from Him. this is not to say that He is not there, but rathe...
Posted by rhonda lynn on Thu, 27 Jul 2006 05:59:00 PST

being vulnerable.

i'm scared that i'm getting cynical. i'm really striving to live a life of balance (my favorite word), but sometimes i'm scared that i'm just becoming lukewarm, or at least that may be true of how oth...
Posted by rhonda lynn on Thu, 11 May 2006 09:53:00 PST