Inspired Organization

 Here is a graphic of the lay leadership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.



That is all.

Yep, I have nothing else to add.

Well, I did forget to cite the reference. You can find out more information at www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/mormon-lay-leadership or at www.mormon.org.

How many ways can you define "run"?

The move went great! We are safe, our stuff is safe. However our safe is not safe. When we unloaded the safe was not there. It is heart breaking that we lost all of those items that we had stored inside the safe. Now I think the safe didn't survive the move due to a tragic design flaw. Unfortunately, we were aware of the flaw when we chose this particular brand. Nevertheless, we only have ourselves to blame for getting an imaginary safe. Let us all have a virtual moment of silence for our imaginary safe.
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We are liking our apartment. It is small, and cozy. Our neighbors are friendly. Our landlords are great.

Word of the day: Run.

5 millions 5 hundred 29 thousand 6 hundred

Today's post is brought to you by the the letter B, the number 5,529,600, and Hannah, who appears as lavender lettering

 As of this post, there are 64 days until our nuptials. How about blessed nuptials. Blissful, gleeful. Nuptial works. Gleeful nuptials sounds weird. This is according to Target.com. Below is a timer of the seconds left until 64 days are expired.

This is a dynamic timer that show how many seconds until 64 days are expired. Let the record show that this is  NOT a dynamic timer and Ryan is terrible. It is a dynamic timer, it is constantly and accurately showing the precise number of seconds left until 64 days are expired. 



Word of the day:
hymeneal: Archaic A wedding; nuptials

Editor's note. This post was not posted the day it was written. It is now 4 weeks. That is four, f-o-u-r-e, weeks after the wedding date of Hannah and Ryan Lee. However, we the management and editing team (that is I, Ryan Lee) felt it best to post this even if it is late.

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Politics in the Public Sphere

I have been reviewing my blogs from the past, and realized, that while awesome, they do not reflect the serious nature of the world in which we reside. This past year has been informative in my views on life, and the struggles we all face. Here are two things about me. I got engaged last week, and this is our temple.

Photo courtesy of www.lds.org/church/temples/seattle-washington.

As I have been reflecting on the lessons learned this last year, I have realized that people like to get letters. I think letter writing is the wave of the future. IMs, texting, vlogs, Skyping, video chats, American Idol, tweeting, Facebook posting, emoticons, emailing, and even telegraphing have served us well thus far. However there is something missing from all of these.

It is easy to confuse virtual communication to a pretend audience of accidental listeners with sincere and honest expressions of personal narrative. It is easy to see that when I am out of practice in my writing, that I quickly go nowhere. In times past I would quickly get to a point that I thought was funny, but would ultimately confuse listeners. However, as I grow apart from my practice, I quickly lose the train of irrational reasoning that i was trying to build.

Now we come to the point, so let me recap.
1. I have not written in over a year.
 2. I got engaged to Hannah this last week, and we will marry in the Seattle Temple. (See picture above).
3. Random ramblings on different forms of communication in order to make this post longer
4. Here is a picture of a duck.

5. Next is picture of two real ducks; not a duck representation of Hannah and I. Nor is it a silly rendering of a duck engagement photo.

Reflections on Family, Part 1

My grandfather is a collector. He does not collect items, or wealth. He is a collector of knowledge.

Quote of the day: Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Blonde Moments of the Day

I apologize for my last post. I never fully explained why I cheese is better than fruit. I will rectify this deficiency.

Now we are all aware that cheese is the fifth alchemical element. In fact, it has consistently been voted "Most Popular Basic Element," as well as "Basic Element Most Likely to be Confused for a Side Celestial Body." (Side note: Speaking of basic elements, I loved singing along to the "Captain Planet" theme song when I was younger. It was with great excitement that joined the shout out: "Earth, fire, wind, water, heart, cheese." Although, I am disappointed at how often the other Planeteers had to rely on Suchi, the Planeteer of cheese, to rescue Captian Planet. I know cheese is important. But, the writers really took it too far in this series. It is transparent how much influence the cheese-ists had during the early Nineties. I am surprised they didn't name the show "Cheese Planet," although that does sound tasty.) Fruit, on the other hand, was only voted "Most Likely to Come from a Flowering Plant." And that vote has been grossly tainted by Tomatogate. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the vote is overturned in the ballot recount. I mean, look at what the Charon controversy did to Pluto. (That really was Pluto's fault. In matters of planetary politics, you have to keep your distance. If you get to close to controversy, then you are going to get sucked in, burned, or torn apart. That is why I like Earth's positioning. Earth has been able to keep itself in hidden between the planetary giants, and the center. Get too close to the center, and Earth would get burned.)

Next weeks topic: Why green should be removed as a basic food group.

Portrait of my Sis.

"This story begins with Erica, because a good story begins with an intriguing introduction. However, this is not the end of Erica's role. She is also the subject of this story."

This is an introduction to a story never told. It would be a great story. That is all.