Rocky

today i decided to clean out my closet. in doing this i was able to declutter a lot of things and i feel very free and as if i can breathe easier. as i was going through my papers i found old art work and projects that had been long frogotten. i realized it had been a while since i really had done any art for art's sake or for G-d's sake for that matter. i mean i design things and do things for my church but it is more of commercial art (which is art in my book, but the audience and purpose of commercial art is different than what i used to do.) realizing that i hadn't just made anything for no real reason, had energized a desire to create. so i decided to take a few things that i had been saving to use in some sort of project and scan them in my computer to see what i could do with them. after bringing the scanner to my room and setting everything up, i started looking through magazine clippings and photographs...and i had this overwhelming desire to make a magazine. so t...

so i finished a book today, it was "out of the silent planet." now this isn't meant to be a segway from the previous post or anything, it really has relevance to a certain thought i have been having. the book is the first of a sci-fi trilogy meant for adults which was written by c.s. lewis. it differs from the narnian series in that it doesn't directly parallel any Biblical passage, though it does have biblical truths woven within it. throughout the book, the protagonist, ransom deals with the vice of fear. i too would be paralyzed by fear if i were in the same situation, i mean being held as a captive and being drugged and put in a space craft headed to an unknown planet would give me good reason to be filled with fear. while reading the book i was reminded of a verse found in 1 john 4 that basically says that perfect love drives out fear. i didn't quite understand the verse before. i thought "you mean if i am afraid of this or that i merely have to love an...

i like books and i like making lists. so i have an ongoing list of which books i have read over this year. i had made a new year's resolution of reading books cover to cover instead of my usual reading until i was bored of the book and starting a new one. here is a the list of books read in 2007 thus far. i plan on reading a few more books so i will post those later. maybe not. note: these are just recreational books not including class books or anything. Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini) The Great Divorce (C.S. Lewis) Everything is Illuminated (Jonathan Safran Foer) A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini) Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Jonathan Safran) The City of Joy (Dominique Lapierre) A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L’Engle) *Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith (Anne Lamott) *The Namesake (Jhumpa Lahiri) *A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Madeleine L’Engle) *The Heavenly Man (Paul Hattaway) Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Lisa See) Chasing Daylight (Erwin McManus) Organic Comm...

today has been glorious day full of sleeping in, hanging out with friends, getting a hilarious white elephant gift and having a marshmellow food fight. seriously today was marvelous. oh and did i mention that it was snowing all day? i will now make this magnificent day complete by spending time with my first love, after i finish posting scans of my white elephant gift, the book set of "from beginner to black belt." here i have posted the front cover as well as my 2 favorite pictures from the books. (you may also click on the pictures to see a larger version of each picture.) enjoy.

here are my favorite shots of the day.