Wearily upward

Every once in a while an artist grabs my attention away from whatever I'm doing and simply inspires me. Sometimes it's looking at a stunningingly beautiful painting. Sometimes it's noticing an exceptionally brilliant performance in a play or movie. Sometimes it's reading an extraordinarily well written poem or composition. In this instance it was listening to a recently released album by a band I love. The album is a live recording of a band called NEEDTOBREATHE. There is one particular song that caught me completely off guard in the way that it moved me. It's a song off one of their earlier albums called Washed By The Water  and I've known it for a long time. On this album, however, for some reason, it just moved me to tears. Listening to it, hearing it, allowing the melodies and lyrics flow over my soul, I was reminded that I had dreams and ambitions once. I was also reminded that many of those dreams and ambitions have never become reality. That is often ...

A funny thing happened a while ago.  I booked our car in for a service and dropped it off at 8 am.  Not knowing exactly how long it would take to be done I took my laptop to a coffee shop to do some writing.  It turns out that a major car service takes longer than a couple of hours, so, eventually, I got bored.  Scrolling through my Facebook feed (where I seem to get a lot of inspiration for this blog) I came across a friend's post that looked interesting, exciting, truth-filled and super spiritual.  All in a single sentence.  Amazing. Having the time to pause and reflect on said statement (while still waiting for the call from the garage to come pick up the car) I found myself wondering whether I'm fully understanding the post.  The more I thought about it, the less it seemed like the truth-filled, super spiritual, powerful, situationally relevant statement I read before.  Oops. Can it be that we are becoming (or have become) a people who wan...