4 Things different

Alrighty folks. Here are two pictures; there are 4 things different can you name them (some are more obvious than others)?





Write your 4 in the comments section and I'll tell you if you're right. Also scroll down to the older post to see one of the 4. It's tough to tell.

Finally...

Well after you all have heard me say that I am getting new glasses, oh don't hit me in the face these are my only glasses, well today has finally come. I got my new glasses! I am very excited and if you couldn't tell in the above pictures then that's alright I meant for it to be tough.

They are different and I will get used to them. I do like the change but am nervous because I don't do well with change. Here's a side by side comparison.



As you can tell, my new ones are more rectanglish as well as a brownish-red color. I like them; they help my eyes more but I'm used to how large the circular ones were so above and below the glasses is a fuzzy. I'm sure my eyes will adjust. My old ones are all bent out of shape.

Things I miss

The good ol' times, whenever they were.

Green grass

Innocence

Being a little kid at home.

The Alaska State Fair

Church youth group

Youthfulness (sometimes I just feel old)

My nephews.

My family being together (May!)

Northern Lights or the Aurora Borealis

My mom (just everything about her)

I'm Sorry

I'm sorry Andrew.

I'm sorry Matt.

I'm sorry Nate.

I'm sorry Jenna, Becca, and Kylie.

I'm sorry Culver lobby.

...I am sorry.

Sing-Along Anyone?

Tonight Kyle, my roommate, has been trying to learn the words to a famous song by Carl Orff, "Carmina Burana". You all have most likely heard it; it may have played for something with the movie 300 or at least it sounds like it could. I was out chatting with Matt in the living room and heard this real epic music blaring and Kyle trying to sing along with it so here he is in all his glory. (He doesn't know that I recorded him, yet).

Baby Steps

I was just listening to one of my favorite bands of all time, Dogwood. A great Christian band and as I was listening and trying to do homework, one of their songs really caught my ear so I looked up the lyrics and listened to it again. The song form their 7th album, "Selfish Americans" talks about how as Americans we have so much and how we know that there are people out in the world with great problems and living in poverty and we just disregard it all. Here is part of the lyrics from the end of the song that I really like:

"Recognize their plight.
Take a look at them.
We take for granted our God given freedom;
They’ve got nothing our there.
We need to lend an unselfish hand,
commit ourselves to serve.
There’s so much we have – we don’t know what to do,
and the answer is already there."

I know we cannot help out everyone, but as Americans we rent storage areas to store all our crap! People around the world have the clothes on their backs and whatever else can fit in their little houses. We need to rethink through our priorities of what we really NEED and what is it that we just WANT. I commend the guys who are not buying any clothes for a whole year, I am not putting a time period on it cause I don't know what the future holds, but I am going to try as well not to. I have so many clothes that I cannot close my dresser draws where my shirts are and I have no more room to hang things up in my closet so I went through and bagged up my excess clothes and am giving them away. I am proud of Andrew and Matt for doing the same. I love all these guys for not just selling out to society, but for actually acting on their beliefs.

I know I sound real radical, even to myself, but this is all true. We have more stuff than we really need. Andrew basically told me once that in order to really change our lives we would need to make a drastic change in our life. I am deathly afraid of change, but am taking baby steps towards it.

Perusing through "My Little Black Book"...

Today was the first day that I have gone through and looked at the things I have been writing down in my Moleskin book. There were a lot of little things that reminded me of events over Christmas break, lessons learned, and Bible verses that I really wanted to remember. I know I look geeky pulling out this black book from my back pocket and then writing things down, but I am who I am and this is important to me. I am very protective of this book because there are things inside that are for me only, and I'll share them when and if I want (that sounded really mean, don't take it that way).

Here are a few things that I wrote down that I'd like to share:

-"Perhaps one reason God delays His answers to our prayers is because He knows we need to be with Him far more than we need the things we ask of Him." -Ben Patterson

-Matthew 5:13-16. I need to daily reflect God's love because what use am I if I don't.

-Excerpt from a prayer of mine, "Take my life and use up my talents so when I get to Heaven I will be empty."

-I think a movie about Bobby Hall's life would be SWEET!

-"Spectacle is the least of things." -Aristotle

This last one is something that I'd like to talk about because it is so true and Aristotle was a very smart guy. This is very applicable today. This quote came up when we were having discussion in our directing class today. So many movies today focus so much on special effects i.e. explosions, gun fights, gore but what happened to the great stories? Yeah Transformers was visually a sweet movie, but the story was sooo shallow. I feel like our culture is really settling for less with our movies lately; we accept these crude humored or flashy movies, and let story take the backseat.

I'm not saying I'm the best storyteller, and looking through my senior project I can tell that I am not great, but I feel like we are just getting bombarded with subpar stories in the movies. I want to be moved during a movie; challenged to change my lifestyle, convicted of my choices, cry for a character (every time I watch Cast Away and October Sky). Spectacle is fun and helps the audience feel more apart with how realistic it is, but lets remember the movies that have great stories. The ones that changed our lives.