Busy busy busy

I love when so many things in life seem intertwined and connected in a way that could be just a coincidence. Like the people you meet at certain times always seem to be the perfect people for that perfect time. (of course it sucks when things don't work out that way). I also love when you just meet someone, chat for a bit, and somehow it feels like you have known them always and you know that there has to be something going on within and around us that we don't know about and no human ever will.

I feel like if you meet someone and you wish you wouldn't have spent your life up to that point without them, you should probably try to keep a relationship with them. (although you might always be kind of connected to them in some way or another even if you aren't around them).

I don't know why am thinking about this. I guess I am just realizing how connected everything is/seems.

The world seems pretty small to me at this point in my life. Places that should seem far off, seem to be just around the corner. I kind of like this viewpoint. I am glad I don't think of Uganda as an unreachable place. In my mind, it is not all that different from here. Different weather, lifestyle, etc. but still people living and dealing with whatever issues life brings.

Just pondering....
I'm glad there is so much more I need to learn. I feel young and stupid after entries like these because I know other people have much much wiser thoughts than I do.

No Envy No Fear

Some are reaching few are there,

want to reign from the heroes chair,

some are scared to fly so high,

well this is how we have to try:

Have no envy and no fear

have no envy, no fear

Brother brother we all see,

you're hiding out so painfully,

see yourself come out to play,

a lovers rain will wash away

Your envy and your fear,

so have no envy, no fear

When your sister turns to leave,

only when she's most in need,

take away the cause of pain,

by showing her we're all the same.

Have no envy and no fear,

have no envy and no fear

Every day we try to find,

we search our hearts and our minds,

the place we used to call our home,

can't be found when we're alone

So have no envy, no fear,

have no envy and no fear

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I'm not sure why I like these lyrics so much. I guess they are just what I needed today; a clear reminder to live without envy and fear.

Oh yea, it is written by Joshua Radin.

some lovely music. (well, photos of the lovely people who make the lovely music)

I like these people quite a bit. This is Abigail Washburn & The Sparrow Quartet. Ben Sollee is part of the quartet. You should listen to both Abigail Washburn and Ben Sollee.

o here's Ben Sollee (he rides a bike. he has inspired me to ride my bike across the country sometime or another.)

Free Will

Meet Rob Brezny.

His website alone can give you a lift just be smelling it. I salute this man today for his dedication to inspiration. This is him in action.

I feel like I am taking a creativity nap. It better not be one of those naps where I wake up afterwards and I don't know whether it is night or day.

P.S.

Travel alone to another country?

yes or no?

lonely or adventurous?

horrible or wonderful?

(do you need more antonyms?)

How does CS Lewis know more about me than I do?

When it comes to affection, Lewis is spot on when he classifies some people as a type that "seal up the very fountain for which they are thirsty"

And on friendship: "This love, free from instinct, free from all duties but those, which love has freely assumed, almost wholly free from jealousy, and free without qualification from the need to be needed, is eminently spiritual".

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I love book fairs. I went to a fantastic one in Chicago today, and got a tremendous stack of libros for under 30 bucks! wooot.

My summer reading pile is beginning to look too large for 3 months....

This post is unnecessary. and I am pretty sure I just spelled unnecessary incorrectly. I will do spell check....CORRECT! I am a master speller. I should be on that one spelling bee with those ridiculous words where everyone is like "Origin?" because they think that will help them spell it more correct. This is becoming unreadable.

I apologize for this disjointed conglomeration of letters. Why am I writing as if I were in a use-the-sweetest-words-you-can-contest.

O! they have dinosaurs at the zoo. WHAT? yesssir, real-moving-noisemaking-LIFEsize dinos.

this is getting out of hand. I am going to stop myself right n-