On an evening such as this
It's hard to tell if I exist
If I pack a car and leave this town
Who'll notice that I'm not around?

I apologize for the radio silence during this very crazy few weeks - people have been reaching out and asking me if we're settling in, and the truth is that we are about halfway there - the essential parts - the bed, the ( Read more... )

Will I dig the same things that turn me on as a kid?

Will I look back and say that I wish I hadn’t done what I did?

Will I joke around and still dig those sounds

When I grow up to be a man

I have had that Beach Boys song stuck in my head for probably about 60 hours or more now. It's just starting to get a teensy bit old now. Guess it's time to replace ( Read more... )

If I could only find a note to make you understand
I'd sing it softly in your ear and take you by the hand

It is with some not unfamiliar sadness that I realize that many months of my life are again uncharted. It's not that words have become less important to me, just that blogging for work has taken over much of my life because work is so much of my ( Read more... )

All the weak
Find their strength
At the sound of Your great name

These posts pretty much always begin with, "A lot has happened since I last posted" because that's what I always think upon beginning to type a gargantuan narrative of all the notable things that have occurred in the last week-month. When I say "week-month" I am using it in the ( Read more... )

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop to look around once in a while, you could miss it.

The words of a certain famous hooky-player may be true, but I don't really play hooky myself and though I admire Ferris' moxie every once and awhile, I'll never be that sort of person. This leads to inordinate amounts of responsibility, work, and other ( Read more... )

This is the land of a thousand words
But it seems so few are worth the breath to say
Except I'll be looking after my own world
And you just keep on saving the day

Today at my new church I heard a speaker

You've probably heard that the saying is Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. Most people don't do a lot of anything except that last one. And I'm thankful to ( Read more... )