Ashley's Philosophy Corner

"After all we do, everything we try, the magnitude of our efforts, the world will corrupt our children. Our job is only to reinforce them with enough good to give them the chance to take both and sort out the best person they can."

"Truth and perspective are such mingled, coiled ideas."

"Once you know you're shallow, you know you're not."

"Love is never something you should sacrafice. It's something you sacrafice for."

"The man who enjoys all subjects will be the first man who can carry on a good conversation with God."

"Better to die than to crawl. Either we stand or we fall."
--From the song "Once and For All" in Newsies

"Sometimes all it takes is a voice. One voice that becomes a hundred, then a thousand -
 Unless it's silenced."

--Bryan Denton in Newsies

"You can't break my spirit. Only I have that kind of power."

--All other quotes from Macy Adams

Austin's Funnies Corner

Witty humor. The best. (Above and below.)

Alex's Random Awesome Corner

I heard the first line of this song in the BBC "Little Dorrit" a few years ago, and ever since my cousin watched it, we have been avid adorers of this song, (especially when it's done in a British accent :). Paired with these pictures -belle. (Beautiful)

I also sang a similar version of this in a little 4th grade show once, and have ever since loved this song as well. I am adding this lady to the long list of people I have 'met' on the internet and now admire. Beautiful voice -and her selections! Not to mention the harp...just, "if there is anything virtuous, lovely, of good report, or praiseworthy, we seek after these things."

Anna's All Things Classical and Jazz

I just discovered this crooner -Vic Damone. Can't beleive I hadn't before! Anyway, he sang "Maria" from West Side Story, and it is so beautiful and stirring. The song its self, but with him singing it...

Another video of my sister's choir in the really splendid cathedral place. The filming is not the best, but it works with the style of the piece, which is tres chouette (really cool), anyway. :)

This is also just such a beautiful, peaceful song, that fills you with that stillness and warmth that is well explained in the song. My sister, (ah, the infamous) also worked with this conductor once, who's world-renound.

Ashley's Philosophy Corner

I love romance. A lot. I think it is the most beautiful, and sweet, and wonderful thing ever. And so, I kind of went on a little craze...all three of these are exactly as described above, and this one has a moral and quote attached. :) 

Austin's Funnies Corner

I wouldn't necessarily call this one funny, but it's a more amusing, light-hearted romance, and a good contrast in styles/eras. (Great movie, by the way.) :)

Alex's Random Awesome Corner


This is just a really cool article. I especially love the wording.
http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/why-religion-matters-salt-of-society?cid=HPTH051514140

This one's rather different, and it's interesting trying to think about it.

And to save the best for last. This is by far the finale. And knowing my different loves, you'll have to understand one of the big reasons is because it's in Paris, France. And not only that, but I just kind of see me as the girl. I'm not sure what her nationality is, but she looks Filipino to me. And she's living exactly what my dream is -to be an independent in Paris, wearing the kind of lovely clothes as she does, enjoying the artistic pleasure of being there, and most of all, getting the opportunity to meet up with strangers and help them, and of course, if a romance were to enfold, well...that would not be unwelcome, either. :) This video, in everything that it is, is my dream. 

Anna's All Things Classical and Jazz

    I'm going to say this is classical, but "Uncle Tom's Cabin."  A million words could not sum it up -the misconceptions, the philosophies, the ideas, the known effect on humanity and therefore history, particularly within America- all that we define it as, regard it as, and should be doing so as. Incredible, absolutely incredible book. (I have less than a hundred pages to finish it.) Any who haven't read...I shouldn't have to go on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7jYT_CW8ZM

We're singing this song in my choir. Love it so much! Plus these fellers do it with Italian accents, and at a jaunty angle, not to mention the piano solo. Jazz. That's all I gotta say. :)