As I Wait for My Coffee to Brew

So I've been waiting for some pictures before I wrote my next post, but this blog has seen neglect for far too long. Not that I've been neglecting it; it's just that it's time it shows that I'm not neglecting it.


I guess I could provide a small update:


I spent spring break at Beach Reach at South Padre Island. It was pretty incredible; maybe even life changing. Don't ever limit God. Ever. This is the verse that was laid on my heart for that week:

If you share your food with the hungry

and satisfy the needs of the oppressed,

then your light will rise out of the darkness

and your night will become like the noonday.

~Isaiah 58:10

I successfully survived my first public recital in the music department here at the university.

I pitched a tent in my apartment with a friend and successfully defended it in the old tradition.

The weather has been incredible. I suppose spring is finally here. I wore my green polo today in celebration.

So my coffee is ready, and I must read some poetry for class (does anybody have some bongos?). And then David Brainerd.

Have a wonderful day.

"Impossible, You Say?"

Two lovers sat on a park bench with their bodies touching each other, holding hands in the moonlight.

There was silence between them. So profound was theire love for each other, they needed no words to express it. And so they sat in silence, on a park bench, with their bodies touching, holding hands in the moonlight.

Finally she spoke. "Do you love me, John ?" she asked. "You know I love you. darling," he replied. "I love you more than tongue can tell. You are the light of my life. my sun. moon and stars. You are my everything. Without you I have no reason for being."

Again there was silence as the two lovers sat on a park bench, their bodies touching, holding handls in the moonlight. Once more she spoke. "How much do you love me, John ?" she asked. He answered : "How' much do I love you ? Count the stars in the sky. Measure the waters of the oceans with a teaspoon. Number the grains of sand on the sea shore. Impossible, you say?"

This is one of my favorite things ever, "Knee Play 5" from Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach. Of course, this is the abridged version (so the 5 1/2 hour opera could fit onto cd), but I think I actually prefer this ending better over the full ending. I get goose-bumps everytime I listen to it; and if I listen to the entire opera first, then it's just overwhelming. The text seems a bit dry here, but when put with the music it makes more sense. I definitely encourage you to go listen to it. If it's about 5 minutes long, it's my preferred abridged version; if it's about eight minutes long, it's the original.

Now, it's time for me to go give a tour.

I Do Have Something to Say

This evening I took the opportunity to look at the stars. I haven't done this in awhile, and this is unacceptable.

We're so small.

Yet our minds are so big.

Sir John Templeton said something once that has stuck with me, and I was reminded of it tonight:

"Would it not be strange if a universe without purpose accidentally created humans who are so obsessed with purpose?"

I've Been Laggard

And I really don't have anything I wish to write right now. Well, I do have things I want to right, but there are other things calling for my attention write now. ;)

Bahdadum, bahdada dum dum, deedahdahdahm, bahdooduhm, dadadadum.
~a melody from "Pacem"