Thursday, December 18, 2014

It's been a long time since I dreamed...

I was jumping. I jumped as high as the inside of the school's gymnasium. I grabbed a hold of the middle I-beam. As impressed as the few friends watching were, the landing was always the toughest. it always hurt the knees, no matter how I tried to shield them. Then there were the other times of jumping over the trees in the forest near Yosemite, just didn't feel like walking around any more. My favorites though were the times where I could just soar or swim the skies. It was such a freedom up in the clouds as they passed by as if no time to stop for a greeting.

The worst were the ones about the sea or water, probably rooted in the one about Little Fredrickson's boy falling into the pool presumably because of something I had done, after all, I had signed my name in the freeze frame. The most frightening was the wave of infinite circles all crashing in the middle of where I was on my boogie board. The waves, the dark- all descending onto the place where I was.

These are the major themes of the two stories- the ones about the ability of ascending and those about descending. Either way, those have been the majority of the substances of my dreams in years past. These days, however, sleep is hard to come by either through sheer will-power to "get through" a paper or to just watch that show that I haven't seen because I haven't had so much time because of said homework. One would actually have to sleep for them to show themselves. It's been a long time since I dreamed...of either.

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Day #25 "Never Gettin' Tired of You"


This is day #25 of the 25 day, 25 song challenge...

  • Day 25 Song That You Could Listen to All Day without Getting Tired of:

The song that I could listen to all day and never get tired of is "A New Hope" by Five Iron Frenzy
This song is a good reminder of where hope comes from and who provides it.




Amy's going back to school today
Elation, jubilation
Streams from her face
Did the halls smell
Of gunpowder still
What made the human mind
Dark enough to kill


A new hope
Where is your freedom
A new hope
Cast off your burdens


A darker world lies behind this one
Cryptic, it hides beneath perception
We all saw it on that day
Stunned, we stood stuttering
What did the news say


A new hope
Where is your freedom
A new hope
Cast off your burdens
A new hope
Where is your freedom
A new hope
Here is your freedom


Peace
Fills us
By hope we steer
Our dark hearts salvaged
We live without fear

Monday, December 8, 2014

Day #24 "Dancing With Friends"


This is day #24 of the 25 day, 25 song challenge...

  • Day 24 Song That You Have Danced to with Your Best Friend:

The song that I've danced to with my best friend is "Blue Comb" by Five Iron Frenzy. I really wish I could upload the VHS of us dancing around the Christmas Tree. It was a typical night where we were asked to "watch" the Christmas Tree Lot at the church to make sure people weren't stealing trees at night. Our solution was staying up the entire night making ridiculous movies about absolutely nothing at all! So much fun! At one point we danced around a Christmas tree like it was a bon-fire of a Native American campground. As we did so we started singing Blue Comb, because it had come out earlier that year, maybe a month or two. But I can't upload that video. Here's Five Iron Live performing Blue Comb...

Thursday, December 4, 2014

Day #23 "I Cant Stand It!"


This is day #23 of the 25 day, 25 song challenge...

  • Day 23 Song That You Can't Stand to Listen to:

The song the I cannot stand to listen to is "Sail Away" by Enya. I can not stand that sound. I never really liked it when it was on the radio and everyone loved it. I didn't like it when I found out that the words were actually in English and not in a foreign language. And I really didn't like it when I had to do a dance routine to it! So, I still have bad feelings toward this song. It sounds like a haunting dream and not the good kind, So, yeah that's my song I can't stand.

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Day #22 (12/02/14) "Song Someone Has Sung to You"


This is day #22 of the 25 day, 25 song challenge...

  • Day 22 Song That Someone Has Sung to You:

As a general rule people don't usually sing to me. Even my kids will sing a song, but not to me but while I happen to be in the room. So really the only song I can remember anyone singing to me would be Jesus Loves Me which is a traditional song. I'm not sure who wrote this one but it has been around for sometime. While it's simple in construct, it's theology is pretty sound. "Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so..."

Monday, December 1, 2014

Day #21 Favorite Song


This is day #21 of the 25 day, 25 song challenge...

  • Day 21 Your Favorite Song :

This is by far the hardest question to answer! I have a handful of songs I could Lauren to all day! I guess if I have to nail down just one it would have to be, On and On by P.F.R. The words below are written to Our Father. This song always brings comfort and hope to my soul. It reminds me this isn't my journey alone and that it's God who continues to send us "farther on and further up" asC.S. Lewis put it.  Here are the lyrics:

Father of love, look upon me now
I've come so far, only You know how
You've changed my life, made me whole
All I am now, to You I owe it all

You are reality, You alone are life
You take a heart so dull and make it shine so bright
To burn for You and all You are
A Light in the night, a guiding star You are

Here are all my burdens, I lift them up to You
Your words, they ease my mind
Your gentleness shines through,
Giving us hope when hope is all gone
Never retreating, sending us on and on

Songwriters
Hanson Joel David

Published By
SPARROW SONG;UNIVERSAL