Aidan Multhauf Story on Elizabeth “Liz” Anglin Journalism 1 October 8th, 2018 Elizabeth Anglin is a student at Fort Lewis College who has been inspired by her faith to pursue a life of positivity. Anglin does not identify with any particular subsect of Christianity, rather she grew up in a “charismatic” Christian family, Anglin said. Any single word that tries to describe a religion is too narrow, she said. Anglin learned from her youth pastor that a relationship with God is complicated, she said. “It’s this relationship that is very much real and works like every other relationship,” she said. “When you invest in it it does well, but when you don’t, it suffers, and I in turn suffer.” When Anglin communicates with God, she gets peace and answers, she said. When she doesn’t spend time talking, as well as listening to God, she feels run down, she said. This depleted state can strongly affect her, she said. She can’t give emotion to anyone or anything because she hasn’t been given any to distribute. Though religion is such an important part of her, Anglin doesn’t think that she is better than anyone else because of her faith, she said. “I don’t want to be a person that because of what I believe I cut people out,” she said. “That’s not loving people, I want to do everything in my power to encourage to help and love people.”
In hopes to create a passion that positively affects the world, Anglin is a student of Communication Design as well as Journalism and Multimedia Studies at Fort Lewis College, she said. Though Anglin is intimidated by english, she enjoys writing, she said. “I do like writing a lot,” she said. “It has purpose. Doing it for the public, for the the people, is so cool.” Anglin also enjoys art and is excited to use it for the field of communication design that spans so vastly, she said. For now, Anglin is content finding joy in the wilderness, she said. For example, she recently visited Treasure Falls near Pagosa Springs, CO and was blown away because her hometown of Farmington, NM does not have any waterfalls, she said. Farmington has canyons and cliff dwellings, but something as simple as a waterfall still excites and inspires her, she said. “I had this realization that I grew up there, my whole life, and I never really saw it, and like took in what I had until I moved here,” she said. She hasn’t yet spent a full year in Durango and has already attached herself to the starry nights, she said. After graduation, Anglin hopes to use her degree, she said. However, even if she finds herself, years down the line, not using her degree, she’ll still find meaning is what she does, she said.
“If I end working at Mcdonalds, or a thrift store, and it’s not necessarily using my degree skills, I’ll be helping people,” She said.