I know I haven't posted in a while...a LONG while. I've missed you all greatly, but I have been quite busy with goings on at the Abbey.

I have been experiencing some pretty heinous life changes recently (not going into detail here), but I am trying to turn my sloppy sobbery into something good.

I am starting a ministry for the homeless! I have been crocheting like mad to distract myself and it occurred to me that there are people, lots in Charlotte, that could use a nice woolen scarf or hat on a cold winter's night.

I've contacted the local parish about partnering with their prayer shawl ministry and hope I get some yarn donations since my college pockets can't clothe the poor alone (much less me).

If any of you readers or fellow bloggers have any helpful ideas or would like to contribute please Email me at ashleyfmiller@abbey.bac.edu.

Thank You and Pax Vobiscum!

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
i fear
no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

~ e.e. cummings

Click on this picture to hear my original poem "Pucking Love" which I read at this year's first Agora meeting. I personally think the camera angle is horrible, but whatevs.

You say that you can’t see it,
-you don’t believe it’s real.
God brought you no miracle
-disbelief he cannot heal.

What can I do, or argue,
-to make you see the light?
All my love is yours to have,
-but I feel I’ll lose this fight.

Believing the invisible
-is no easy task.
Though observing the
-miraculous isn’t much to ask.

You can explain it all;
-yes, I already know.
For those times you can’t,
-then where do you go?

What can I say or show
-to make you believe?
I speak with all sincerity,
-and no wish to leave.

I love despite this
-absence of divinity.
Am I naïve to trust
-intent of the Trinity?

You and I are two sides
-of just one coin.
Opposite in our views
-but still we join.

A fool to believe
-and a fool to love you.
I realize there is nothing

-which I could say or do.

For now, I am simply here
-waiting for your light.
A candle sitting on a sill
-looking into the night.

Ashley Faye Miller

Again, out of boredom, I have begun a random project.

I am "meowizing" the names of world leaders both present and historical so that I may later create a LOL Cat style picture book. Examples:

Chairman Meow Tse Tung
Benito Pussolini
Adolf Kitler
Vladimir Kitten
Meowie Antoinette
Fidel Catro (not original)
Chancellor Merkat
Queen Elizacat II
Ho Chi Meow

The BAC History Department's 2011-2012 Shirt


Submit you favorite quote about the topic of history for judgement. The winning quote will be incorporated in the design of this year's department shirt, and the chosen submission will be rewarded a free tee. Free sounds good, right History majors? Let's get started!


Submissions will be accepted by ashleyfmiller@abbey.bac.edu. :)

Awaken from this dream

On the wave of Morning's Light;

Worlds come apart at the seam.


Here is the truth of Day

No longer lost in Ever Night.

What words live to hear, to say?


Day breaks on dreary Land;

Sparkling Shadow hides from sight.

Take Reality, hand in hand.

Color pencil sketch.

Oil pastels.