If you like acoustic guitar you need to listen to Trace Bundy.
March 22, 2009
my mind
My mind writes poems before I sleep; when it creates dreams before the memory releases them to be lived and then forgotten.
January 22, 2009
my philosophy on sleep
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. - Jean Kerr
and this is why i wake up after 7:30 on all normal days.
and this is why i wake up after 7:30 on all normal days.
January 18, 2009
looking back at the road so far
I was just re-reading blogs that I wrote while living in Barbados. I should really be sleeping but my mind is not yet ready to rest. These past writings really took me back to the first very confusing, kind of scary, faith stretching days. The days where it took 3 times as long to do anything or go anywhere. The days where everyone looked the same and you couldn't remember one from another. The days when you plopped into bed at night and woke up the next morning with no idea what the next 12 hours would hold. Those were the days.
I listen to country radio now. I started maybe 2 years ago and have increasingly done it more and more. There's a song that plays and it has a line that really strikes me every time i hear it. It goes "you're gonna miss this. you're gonna want this back." Really this song rings true. When I think of Barbados I do miss it, i do want it back. I want to enjoy the days of lying on the beach, or sitting on a board waiting for a set. I miss walking down the hill and getting pizza at the Esso. I miss watching people on the bus and watching TV, well DVDs really, with the team. Most of all I miss the friendships I made and the laid back way people relate. I miss my roommate Ricquel. It took me so long to get to understand her and now I miss her uniqueness. I could go on and on. Don't even get me started on foods that I miss (fishcakes, macaroni pie and the lasagna from out back of the Guild.)
All this to say that this last year was so amazing and I wish i appreciated it more when it was happening; that I built deeper relationships and spent more time with girls.
So now I am in a new place. A place that still has surf and sun (blessing!) and new people to meet and get to know. This phrase, this line of a song, is my reminder to not let these days go by without appreciation. To enjoy where God has me now and not get caught up in the "what's next" part. Or even the desires I have for my future. I want to be able to operate today with a full heart and mind open to what God has planned for today. They say that America is a very future oriented country. I think Barbados is more a present oriented country. Maybe some of their thinking has rubbed off. I still plan and get excited for what's coming up, but I want to make sure I still get more excited about what's going on right now around me.
Here's to today. And tomorrow will come... tomorrow. I plan to enjoy all this sunshine and beach to the fullest, but even more to enjoy this season that God has placed me. To enjoy my new SV team and highschool students, and team talks, and following God in a new place with a new ministry. Sometimes we're trying so hard to see where God is leading next that we're not aware of where he has us right now.
I listen to country radio now. I started maybe 2 years ago and have increasingly done it more and more. There's a song that plays and it has a line that really strikes me every time i hear it. It goes "you're gonna miss this. you're gonna want this back." Really this song rings true. When I think of Barbados I do miss it, i do want it back. I want to enjoy the days of lying on the beach, or sitting on a board waiting for a set. I miss walking down the hill and getting pizza at the Esso. I miss watching people on the bus and watching TV, well DVDs really, with the team. Most of all I miss the friendships I made and the laid back way people relate. I miss my roommate Ricquel. It took me so long to get to understand her and now I miss her uniqueness. I could go on and on. Don't even get me started on foods that I miss (fishcakes, macaroni pie and the lasagna from out back of the Guild.)
All this to say that this last year was so amazing and I wish i appreciated it more when it was happening; that I built deeper relationships and spent more time with girls.
So now I am in a new place. A place that still has surf and sun (blessing!) and new people to meet and get to know. This phrase, this line of a song, is my reminder to not let these days go by without appreciation. To enjoy where God has me now and not get caught up in the "what's next" part. Or even the desires I have for my future. I want to be able to operate today with a full heart and mind open to what God has planned for today. They say that America is a very future oriented country. I think Barbados is more a present oriented country. Maybe some of their thinking has rubbed off. I still plan and get excited for what's coming up, but I want to make sure I still get more excited about what's going on right now around me.
Here's to today. And tomorrow will come... tomorrow. I plan to enjoy all this sunshine and beach to the fullest, but even more to enjoy this season that God has placed me. To enjoy my new SV team and highschool students, and team talks, and following God in a new place with a new ministry. Sometimes we're trying so hard to see where God is leading next that we're not aware of where he has us right now.
October 12, 2008
shoot back to middle school
I went paint balling today and it reminded me so much of middle school...or maybe it was high school. funny thing is the only time I've been before was a leppard twin birthday party in the forest. lol.
this experience was awesome though and i was playing with a bunch of high schoolers so i felt like high school. heh heh. I will admit the first game i hadn't even had a chance to fire before I was hit. BUT I improved with time. :-p it was awesome! I'd for sure do it again and all you people out there feeling kind of old, you should go play paint ball and let it shoot you back to the "good old days."
this experience was awesome though and i was playing with a bunch of high schoolers so i felt like high school. heh heh. I will admit the first game i hadn't even had a chance to fire before I was hit. BUT I improved with time. :-p it was awesome! I'd for sure do it again and all you people out there feeling kind of old, you should go play paint ball and let it shoot you back to the "good old days."
October 7, 2008
October 5, 2008
San Diego (SD)
Thought it was time for an update on my life! if this blog is going to be a progression of communications i should actually work on communicating huh.
Yesterday I moved from Orlando to San Diego, CA! whoo hooo! My flights were the smoothest I've ever had. Only thing a little abnormal was waiting in the airport for 3 hours before the first flight took off because I had to go early because my dad flew out an hour before I did. Both my parents actually flew to Europe the same day I flew to SD. We all abandoned Matt. I don't think he minded. If I were him I wouldn't have minded.
The weather here is beautiful just like everyone says. I haven't made it to the beach yet but hey, I'm still on Day 1 so a little grace. I do have a "surf" car that a wonderful family is letting me borrow. It's their youngest sons who recently moved. But he used to use it to haul surf boards etc. If I had a board I'd honor it with the same profession but I'm not going to buy a board till after I see the waves. and maybe feel the water. and maybe talk myself back into the joys of being cold...but still on a board. I'll post a picture of the car soon. It's full of character.
In the mean time my goal for this week is buying my own car. I think that's the goal at least. I'm a little frightened by the whole ordeal but excited as well. I've never owned a car before so this will be a first. I just hope I don't make some awful mistake.
Until then.
Yesterday I moved from Orlando to San Diego, CA! whoo hooo! My flights were the smoothest I've ever had. Only thing a little abnormal was waiting in the airport for 3 hours before the first flight took off because I had to go early because my dad flew out an hour before I did. Both my parents actually flew to Europe the same day I flew to SD. We all abandoned Matt. I don't think he minded. If I were him I wouldn't have minded.
The weather here is beautiful just like everyone says. I haven't made it to the beach yet but hey, I'm still on Day 1 so a little grace. I do have a "surf" car that a wonderful family is letting me borrow. It's their youngest sons who recently moved. But he used to use it to haul surf boards etc. If I had a board I'd honor it with the same profession but I'm not going to buy a board till after I see the waves. and maybe feel the water. and maybe talk myself back into the joys of being cold...but still on a board. I'll post a picture of the car soon. It's full of character.
In the mean time my goal for this week is buying my own car. I think that's the goal at least. I'm a little frightened by the whole ordeal but excited as well. I've never owned a car before so this will be a first. I just hope I don't make some awful mistake.
Until then.
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