going a new way
it's been around a year and a half since i moved from lansing michigan to chicago illinois. i've experienced many good things. there is a grand bunch of kids whom i have befriended from j.p.u.s.a. i worked in the office of cornerstone festival for over a year. and during a lot of that time i was playing in a band. i met the band slightly over a year ago. the band i teamed up with has been a really good thing. i learned a lot about music and artistry and through the band's studies of the bible i have begun to grasp a more historical and less quoted or "understood" perspective of the bible then in my younger life of being a minister's kid. there has been growth in different ways, and there has been degradation in some ways, i am sure. sometimes it seems like no matter what you do in life, you'll have growth and degradation in different ways.
when i left michigan, i really didn't have much clue where it would take me. i feel as if i've reached a similar point, right now, as when i left michigan. and this time, i am moving to the city of philadelphia. i have already had a great taste of the community (which especially includes a unique individual of lovely embrace to me), and being at this point, i believe it's a great place to gain some more bearing.
there are a lot of friends i have that are music artists. a good lot of them are striving away to do really good things in the music scene or industry, which i think is good stuff. i have been one of those music artists. i know that i always will be an artist and love music so much like i do now, and music itself is very important to me. but i don't want to go the route of "serious artist" any more. it's something i went into mostly because it was pretty much just always there in front of me. and it still is and will be, i know. but i believe that there is a lot more ahead of me then just making albums and promoting them by touring and whatnot. and what's ahead, i don't know. but something strongly inside me is moving me to the next step. i know it'll be a lot of giving, and that this is a way of giving myself.
i'm leaving the band i'm in now. it's pretty hard, because i have become really good friends with the other members and people in the bible studies. but it's not hard, in other ways. in my life i've grabbed onto something strongly- change. i think i've been trained up for lots of change. and i'll probably keep doing that. but yeah, change and moving seems to have its toll on relationships, unfortunately. like mine and my mother's relationship, it seems like. or my old friend nick or ryan and other past band friends. however, my good friend kevin, who is sleeping on my couch right now, is a person of constant change. he's a traveler. "willy nilly," joel calls him. we get along quite well. and he'll travel along to new places and maybe be in the town i'm in within the next year but it'll be cool still between us. i would, honestly, like to learn, change, grow, move forward, and more, with a person of particular fondness to me, lauren nichole. having her next to me gives me a support i've never known. a support which inspires a giving attitude from me. i'd like to move through history with her.
so- i make preparations, at this time. luke will be assuming my position in the band. luke is a good friend from jpusa, who wants to move out soon. i've got the usual moving preparations to make. and i'm going to visit my mom and dad and brother soon, before leaving to PA. maybe i'll see you very soon.
when i left michigan, i really didn't have much clue where it would take me. i feel as if i've reached a similar point, right now, as when i left michigan. and this time, i am moving to the city of philadelphia. i have already had a great taste of the community (which especially includes a unique individual of lovely embrace to me), and being at this point, i believe it's a great place to gain some more bearing.
there are a lot of friends i have that are music artists. a good lot of them are striving away to do really good things in the music scene or industry, which i think is good stuff. i have been one of those music artists. i know that i always will be an artist and love music so much like i do now, and music itself is very important to me. but i don't want to go the route of "serious artist" any more. it's something i went into mostly because it was pretty much just always there in front of me. and it still is and will be, i know. but i believe that there is a lot more ahead of me then just making albums and promoting them by touring and whatnot. and what's ahead, i don't know. but something strongly inside me is moving me to the next step. i know it'll be a lot of giving, and that this is a way of giving myself.
i'm leaving the band i'm in now. it's pretty hard, because i have become really good friends with the other members and people in the bible studies. but it's not hard, in other ways. in my life i've grabbed onto something strongly- change. i think i've been trained up for lots of change. and i'll probably keep doing that. but yeah, change and moving seems to have its toll on relationships, unfortunately. like mine and my mother's relationship, it seems like. or my old friend nick or ryan and other past band friends. however, my good friend kevin, who is sleeping on my couch right now, is a person of constant change. he's a traveler. "willy nilly," joel calls him. we get along quite well. and he'll travel along to new places and maybe be in the town i'm in within the next year but it'll be cool still between us. i would, honestly, like to learn, change, grow, move forward, and more, with a person of particular fondness to me, lauren nichole. having her next to me gives me a support i've never known. a support which inspires a giving attitude from me. i'd like to move through history with her.
so- i make preparations, at this time. luke will be assuming my position in the band. luke is a good friend from jpusa, who wants to move out soon. i've got the usual moving preparations to make. and i'm going to visit my mom and dad and brother soon, before leaving to PA. maybe i'll see you very soon.