September 2011
1 post
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April 2010
4 posts
but for now we are young
I’m starting a new journal, as is the tradition when I make some kind of major move/transition. It will be fairly similar to this one, just more earthy, and maybe with more pictures of cats. Except that my cat had to move to a different house (sigh).
You can now follow me there (all you kids who use tumblr will know what I mean)!
Cheers.
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Broken Social Scene, Pacific Theme
March 2010
10 posts
Broken Bells, The High Road
“Perhaps one of the greatest heresies that has befallen our contemporary church...”
the long hard road
I think my favorite thing about being at college, and realizing it’s just about time to move on, is that it doesn’t really end. Most of the friendships I’ve made here will probably continue for a long time, being a continuation instead of a solid conclusion.
It makes this whole “journey towards home” idea less of a difficult thing to bear, and more a difficult thing...
Spring Break, part deux
Well now, I never really finished my accounts on spring break. It’s over now and I’m back in school, slowing starting work on two concerts, one art show, a student-painting project, and the 3 or 4 papers that comprise my last month of school before the next few chapters.
Speaking of the next few chapters, this past week I found out a room was available at the community project in...
February 2010
19 posts
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Spring Break, Chapter 1
My first days of spring break are going well. But I must say the biggest lesson I’m learning is this: It’s easy to be lazy, but it’s really difficult trying to do nothing. And laziness is in no way relaxing or refreshing.
Doing nothing, however, is quite relaxing. The problem with doing nothing is that I’m naturally more prone to want to do things, to stay busy. Doing...
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“I felt lonely last night, but today I’m fine”
there came a word
Dear God,
I have a couple questions to ask you.
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Protest: A Critique
Hey friends, I’ve decided to seize an early opportunity to share my take on Olympic protests happening in Vancouver.
Protest is an addiction, and like any addiction it destroys the integrity of the action, object, or idea it originally stood for.
An addiction to alcohol, for example, always starts innocently enough. A person will try alcohol and enjoy it. The drink will bring them a...
at an impasse
if you would lessen the threat of my indifference I’d cross the world a thousand times over to see if I could find you.
paint & picture
I’m trying to think of a good moniker for myself. Have you any good suggestions?
Some of the good better potentials are as follows:
1) Paint & Picture 2) Sign Field 3) Green Tea 4) The’ Vert 5) Eat Local
Argh! These are all terrible ideas. Whose idea was this?
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conflict
One of the things I’ve become pretty good at in my life is avoiding conflict. I think this is an example of what I like to call “learning in the wrong direction”.
Avoiding conflict, being passive, is ultimately being unfriendly. It doesn’t reall build community, or grow the possibility of new relationships. In fact I think it tears these things down.
I think it also tends...
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cover this
So, I started working on cover versions of Dangerous, She Wolf, Party in the USA, and Umbrella- truly some of the enduring songs of our generation.
The novelty might eventually wear off, in which case I’ll start working on Blackbird, Freebird, Tiny Dancer, Faith, or Down On The Corner.
January 2010
9 posts
The Tremulance, Smash Your Keyboards
too much
cynicism: the art of trying to hide what is really going on with a deconstructive sense of bitterness towards outside influences, objects, concepts. for me it’s been with relationships, christian music, the church. cynicism is a damaging habit of tearing things down instead of exploring the act of redemption, or trying to see how God is building a working narrative.
what is worse, cynicism...
We Are The City, There are very tiny beasts in the...
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“…in my immediate network there are
angels in the corners, in the...”
oh hey
Today was a really good day. I love it, but I’m a bit suspect. Days this good seem too out of the ordinary, unless of course I’m entering a season of many days just like this. That I wouldn’t mind.
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road regret
Lately I struggle with the question of “where do I find myself”? It seems funny that in order to find myself I have to travel across the world. “Wherever I go there I am”, as Seventh Day Slumber once put it. So, if I’m honest with myself, my desire to travel isn’t about trying to find myself.
I’m trying to escape myself. If I haven’t discovered who...
“I send this out there to my homies who livin in the good life. And when you...”
– bangs
December 2009
11 posts
crystalized, by the xx
It took me a few listens...
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how my heart behaves
These days have mostly been quiet and unsubstantial. One would think that an entire week of free time would be the precursor to extensive hours of reading, deep moments while standing on the back deck in the cold winter air with a beer in hand, or a cigarette. Whatever makes you feel more contemplative.
In reality I’m not doing anything at all. No books, no writing, no romantic artistic notions...
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our love is speculation? how did this happen??
discomfort
man, am I ever dis-satisfied today. more on that later :/