I'd Like to Add . . .

*the title in no way reflects the content of this blog post. When I started typing the title it came up as an option so I decided that a completely irrelevant title was what I wanted to give this post. Also, this blog was written a long time ago and I never got around to finishing and posting it at the time, but I do still mean what it says so, here it is. Enjoy! _____________________________________________________ If you follow me or read this, (which, if you're reading this right now, you are at least half guilty of) I just wanted to say, "hey".  If you want to reply then by all means, a comment is welcome.  The real point of my typing at this exact moment in time though, when I could be doing so many other things, is to just send this message out into the vast, mysterious society that is the internet. You know what?  It's actually more than that though because each member and participant of this strange, abstract society has a heart, a mind, and ...

I'm in the car listening to the new Owl City CD (All Things Bright and Beautiful) and in the first song, "The Real World", some of the lyrics are "reality is a lovely place but I wouldn't want to live there." While I've been really enjoying the music of Owl City lately and have been very fond of some of the lyrics I've noticed in some of the songs I've heard (especially on the new album), I can't say I agree with those lyrics. You know those times in the middle of a movie when you remember that you're you and have your own life that isn't what's going on int he movie?  Well sometimes things going on in my life become like the movie to me.  Or like a dream.  And then God wakes me up and pulls my mind out of the movie and everything around just stops. And I realize I'm happy to be standing on the truth.  On real life.  I'm happy for the reason I can have hope- that in reality, I belong to Jesus.  And that's not a figme...

(I put the music at the top so you can listen while reading, if that's your thing, instead of discovering it at the end and having to sit here and listen to the whole song with no music video or anything.  Sorry, I tried to find a version with one but I don't think a  music video for this song exists.  Sometimes it's easier to appreciate the musical side of a song without a music video anyway though so I hope that's the case here.) First off, let me start out with saying that I am not paid or singing the praises of this website for any reason other than my own appreciation toward it.  Ok. Now that that's out of the way, let me introduce you to something that has changed my life.  By the way, I think that phrase is sometimes under-used.  So many little things end up changing our lives as much as (sometimes more than) the big and obvious life-changing things that are commonly the only things referred to as "life-changing".  Anyways, a webs...

0 DAYS OF SCHOOL LEFT!!! WOOHOOO! It feels weird. I don't really know what to do.  I feel like I should celebrate but I'm not really sure how.  Maybe it should be one of those thought celebrations.  Like when you communicate with somebody by saying hardly anything at all.  Yes.  I think that's what it should be.  One of those celebrations where instead of partying it up and yelling "woohoo!", you look the person who brought you through in the eye and say "thank you".  Maybe the only way we can really feel fulfilled by partying it up and yelling "woohoo!" is once we've looked that person in the eye and said "thank you".  For me, that person is God. Having zero days left of school means more to me than just the end of tardy bells and state standards.  To me, having zero days left of school means that God has brought me through 720 days (in high school alone) and that I don't need to be afraid of the next thing he brings me thr...

Hello, reader.  If you do follow this blog at all you may have noticed that I haven't written a single word for this blog in quite a while (27 days, to be exact).  It's not that I didn't have an interest to blog, the matter was more one of time and the call for my attention from "higher priorities".  I suppose those two reasons could really be considered one and the same.  One of the things I (un)affectionately consider a "high priority" was a research paper I had to write for a college class.  Don't get me wrong, I don't despise all assignments.  I actually enjoyed writing the paper but there's something about writing something because you have to that makes it not as fun as writing because you want to (as is the case of a blog, for instance).  It's probably some crazy thing I was born with like an annoyance for doing things I am being forced to do and would otherwise be happy doing, had I not been instructed to. I don't know.  B...

So a few months ago I got to go to an acoustic concert of the band, The Icarus Account (which consists of two twin brothers, Ty and Trey Turner, who both play guitar and sing).  I had heard of them before from a friend and liked their stuff but once I saw them live I really fell for the musical side of their songs. I walked away from that concert thinking that there wasn't a chord I heard that night that I didn't like.  There is a certain way of playing guitar that almost takes my breath away- they play guitar that way.  I like a lot of their songs but this is one that I get stuck in my head so I thought it would be fitting to write a post about it and put it in my moving music category.  Sorry I couldn't get a better video but they don't have music videos as far as I know (please let me know if you've seen one by them!) and all the live videos have bad sound quality and the sound is the best part so I thought this video was suitable.   "Closer...

We all have a niche for music of some kind or another somewhere within us.  The combination of music that each person loves will always be unique just to them.  It makes sense to me to think of it as their "music world".  I want to share (of what I have already come across) what music makes up my music world. I love music.  Some songs, types, genres and artists I appreciate and others I don't favor as much.  I want to invite you into the world of music that moves me.  Some music I am drawn to because of it's melody, some because of the lyrics tied to it, and some because of the combination of the two. I want to start a category of posts to feature this music.  To be honest the idea sort of comes from someone else's blog.  She critiques a different piece of music every Monday but as I don't post consistently, mine's a little different. My idea for this is that I highlight a specific piece of music for each post I do for this new category and ju...