5.31.2011

nine week trip.

it's almost that time. most of you who read this were in my same spot just a couple years ago. i am currently in the process of packing for my first full summer at camp. it's a good thing i started early, because as i pack, i find more and more things that i need. just when i thought i had it all...

anyway, someone should have told me just how much stuff it would be. i mean, look at this:


that isn't even including all of my hanging clothes, shoes, or guitar. yes, some of that will be condensed when it comes closer to Monday, but SERIOUSLY?! i'm not sure Russell can handle all of that. good thing it's only an hour drive.

okay that's enough of that, just thought i'd share my excitement and surprise!

5.09.2011

right left right

i already wrote this once. but it didn't do my feelings justice. as usual, someone else wrote a song that does a better job expressing my thoughts than i can.

Marchin On - Onerepublic

for those days we felt like a mistake//those times love's what you hate//somehow we keep marchin on//for those nights when i couldn't be there//i've made it harder to know that you know//that somehow we'll keep moving on//there's so many wars we fought//there's so many things we're not//but with what we have i promise you that we're marching on//marching on//for all of the plans we've made//there isn't a flag i'd wave//don't care if we bend//i'd sink us to swim//we're marching on//for those doubts that swirl all around us//for those lives that tear at the seams//we know we're not what we've seen//for this dance we'll move with each other//there ain't no other step that one foot right in front of the other//there's so many wars we fought//there's so many things we're not//but with what we have i promise you that we're marching on//marching on//for all of the plans we've made//there isn't a flag i'd wave//don't care if we bend//i'd sink us to swim//we're marching on//right, right, right, right left right//marching on//we'll have the days we break//we'll have the scars to prove it//we'll have the bonds that we save//but we'll have the heart not to lose it//for all the times we stopped//for all the things i'm not//we put one foot in front of the other//we move like we ain't got no other//we go when we go, we're marching on

this song is the perfect anthem for the transition from one stage of life to another. i know many of us are in similar places. whether it's high school graduation, college graduation, finishing a master's. wherever you are, keep marching on.

peace.