francita

Please give a great, big livejournal welcome to francita. She's smart, inquisitive, honest, funny and interesting as she wrestles with what she knows, what she loves, and what she wants. She's got roots in Germany, studies and is about to teach in the UK, has a love in the US (but moving!), and is passionate about French language and culture.

I've gotten enormously fond of francita online, and she's being frustrated by bureacracies at the moment, so go say hello.

In Francita's honor, because I know she likes the deep thinkers -- although, maybe not the idea of those greater and holier longings after being as completely and fully a part of this world as could ever be possible. That first sentence is enough for me, really:

But try to yield up your life out of love for the universe. Strive here already to annihilate your individuality and to lie in the one and all. Strive to be more than yourselves so that you lose little if you lose yourselves, and if you have fused with as much of the universe as you find here and a greater and holier longing has arisen in you, then we will want to speak further about the hopes death gives to us and concerning the infinity to which we unerringly soar through it.
Friedrich Schleiermacher