MK lives in a Sweet Yellow House with Six Friends and a semi-evil Cat in Athens, Ga.
For now.
MK is in the midst of her final year at The University and is contemplating what to do with aforementioned Final Year and all of the Years That Will Follow.
Join MK as she learns about life, love, and the pursuit of Something Greater than even Happiness.
Oh? The title? MK wants you to know that fireworks are one of her Very Favorite Things and would like to live her life accordingly: as an explosion of light and wonderment. Some of MK’s Very Favorite Famous People have talked of such feelings, and wants you to share them too:
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”’
-Jack Kerouac
“Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is happening or something very good or very bad. The ah-h-h-h! that sometimes floats up out of you as out of a Fourth of July crowd when the sky-rocket bursts over the water. The stammer of pain at somebody else s pain. The stammer of joy at somebody else’s joy. Whatever words or sounds you use for sighing with over your own life. These are all prayers in their way.”
-Frederick Beuchner
We are all but a bottled rocket ready to take on the world…
MK has no intention of talking about herself in the 3rd person forever. Starting now.
I also should mention that the name for this blog stems from a few other sources: Bottle Rocket, a film about finding yourself and doing what makes you happy; and from a song by Stephen Covell of the title Bottled Rocket. It is too big of a coincidence that my favorite quotes, movie and one of my favorite songs all have to do with fireworks. There was no way this blog was being called anything else.
So what am I doing with my life? Heck if I know. But somehow… I think I’ll figure it out. Thanks for being a long for the journey.
