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no day but today

Life has to be a little nuts sometimes...otherwise it's just a bunch of Thursdays strung together.

About Me

Innovate. Read. Love. Want. Do. Don’t. Re-vamp. Re-structure. Re-write. Down-size. Down-fall. Dream. Paint. Sing. Play an instrument. Play a sport. Be satisfied. Be big. Be small. Be amazing. Be not-so-amazing. Be you. Think for yourself. THINK FOR YOURSELF. Live. Dance. Move. Forward or backward, it doesn’t matter, just don’t be stagnant: you will eventually get somewhere, and then you can go from there. Don’t sulk. Don’t regret. Take it, accept it, ask for forgiveness, learn from it. Make it make you better. Act your way into a feeling; don't feel your way into an action. Control how you feel, what you think, but not to the point where you don’t let yourself be human. Mess up. Mess up BAD. If something truly feels right, do it. I don’t know, you can say that’s impulsive, juvenile, whatever….but I think it’s God. Don’t look for signs and wonders…just listen. How else is He gonna talk to you?? I do this. I AM this. You can call it emotional, you can call it acting on impulses rather than reason….TRUST ME, if it is a big decision I will reason myself in circles until it takes me years to reach a conclusion; however, IF it is LIFE and I am in the middle of living it and I am totally wrapped up in the wonderfulness of the feeling of a warm touch or the ravenous hunger for sugar in any form or the rage and malice of something not going the way I had it planned out in my head and completely losing all hope for sanity…I am going to act on it. I am going to hold that hand, eat that candy bar, cry until I can’t think anymore. I refuse to sit back and let life pass me by. I have control. But sometimes, I don’t. I am not in control of everything; do I know the line between what God controls and what I control? No. But I am willing to go along for the ride. And to trust Him. And isn’t that all I can do? I think so. Now trust me, I am taking my own advice with every word I have said here. In fact, I should print this off and read it to myself every day just to remind myself of what I think when I am sane. But I am learning. And I like learning. Yeah. I like learning. Teach me some more, God.

My Interests

I like scars. They show you’ve lived. I like it when your heart hurts. It reminds you that you have one. I like laughing. It burns calories. I like breathing. It reminds you that just because you can’t see something, doesn’t mean you can live without it. Kind of like God. Or Love. I like it when people stay up late. It is like they feel like the dark hides them enough so that they can take off their daytime masks and be real. I like science. It proves how amazing God is. I like music. For every reason in the world.

I'd like to meet:

Leonardo Da Vinci. Michaelangelo. Pablo Piccaso. Vincent Van Gogh. Lucianno Pavarati. Michael Jackson. Bob Ross. Napoleon Bonaparte. Balanchine. Barishnicov. Natalie Portman. Imogen Heap. Nelson Mandella. Paul McCartney. The Pope. Bono. Tommy Emmanuel.

Music:

don't get me started... ok, i'll begin...the beatles. imogen heap. patty griffen. sigur ros. chet atkins. mae. nickel creek. aqualung. acdc. the bravery. the shins. frou frou. mindy smith. daft punk. damien rice. ray charles. the masses. the killers. SRV and double trouble. jimi henrix. tommy emmanuel. leslie dudney. kiss. coldplay. radiohead. zach and barry ingle. johnny cash. ben folds. james blunt. mute math. michael jackson. magnet. beta band. jeff buckey. jamie cullum. steve sudduth. dolly parton. peter frampton. sufjan stevens. fiona apple. b b king. james taylor. anyone in the imboden family. kaki king. maroon 5. michael buble. frank sinatra. death cab for cutie. jason mraz. klaus badelt. east mountain south. helen stellar. jimi hendrix. alanis morisette. eric clapton. steve vai. andrea bocelli. jet. ani defranko. pete yorn. jonny lang. gavin degraw. murphey. louis armstrong. watermark. chris thile. rooney. simon and garfunkel. iron and wine. chris rice. norah jones. barbara streisand. ray lamontagne. the fray. beethoven. mozart. chopin. debussy. joplin. jerry reed. allman bros. rolling stones.

Movies:

The Cider House Rules, Forrest Gump, Big Fish, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Romeo and Juliet (the Baz version), Pirates of the Carribbean, Donnie Darko, Garden State, The Count of Monte Cristo, I 3 Huckabee's, Hook, The Santa Claus, Hello Dolly, any animated Disney movie or Pixar...especially Toy Story, Monsters Inc., Aladdin, and Finding Nemo.

Television:

gray's anatomy. discovery channel. history channel. animal planet. i don't have time for anything else.

Books:

My Name is Asher Lev. A Prayer for Owen Meany. The Cider House Rules. The Case for a Creator. The Bible.

Heroes:

God. My dad, who is a choral conductor with one arm.