Beauty for Ashes

Sunday, December 24, 2006

thoughts on a reel, and dust


cold, as in thirty-five degrees, wet, as in a steady rain, quiet, as in all you could hear was the muffled sound of rain in the trees. but overall i would say that it was beautiful as the rain finally forced my cameras to retreat to my camera bag, and thus made me to really see. i stood on the plank that passed for a bridge over a creek that wound its way into the grey expanse of lake michigan, which on this day was as though all across its hundreds of square miles, there wasn't a breath of wind. tiny ripples lapped at the waters edge as if lake michigan where nothing but a big puddle with no more concern than the stranger splashing in it. God, he knows me so well.

Thursday, December 14, 2006

today being here


First of all, here are my picks for the five best albums of 2006. I do hope you agree with me. There is no real order here either.
The Avalanche - Sufjan Stevens
The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me - Brand New
Eat, Sleep, Repeat - Copeland
Dog Problems - The Format
The Crane Wife - The Decemberists

Now, I just want to say that life after this semester is somewhat bittersweet in that all the crazy intensity of a this semester over, or so I thought so lets take a look back at what's happened this semester. Drew almost dies, the church splits, BK dies, Kyle dies, and tuesday I find out Chris has cancer. And yet this semester has been so good, the storms have brought a closeness and a realness to our lives and relationships that in the midst of funerals and tears, and the invasion of death and pain, the reality of love and hope are somehow more real than they've ever been.

Sunday, December 10, 2006

lost for thoughts


this place is a prison, these people aren't your friends. Inhaling thrills through twenty-dollar bills and the tumblers are drained and then flooded again and again-the postal service