guitar lessons or surgery

okay Adrian...you caught me. I have procrastinated the day of my blogging, but alas, it has come. I was just waiting for my tonsillitis to come back. When i was younger, i got tonsillitis...lets see...once or twice a month? does that sound right to anyone? yea me too. Anyway, i was pondering why i hadn't written anything in a while and i decided that it was not because i didn't have anything to say or express it was simply the fact that i didn't quite have to the words to do so, or the desire for that matter. I've also been feeling that common, yet indescribable internal need to write a new song. but here i am, consistently producing nothing. With this on my mind and a familiar tightness in my throat, my mom called me. She had been reading in this book that seems to have made connections between physical illness and emotional distress. All i could do was laugh when she told me that tonsillitis was associated with repressing both emotions and creativity. go figure uh? I either need guitar lessons or surgery. =)

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
- Laurence J. Peter

This brings joy to my heart

Several nights ago i awoke with flying kangaroos and christmas trees running through my mind, but then i had a revelation, Lambert the Sheepish Lion is probably on youtube. I know that didn't seem like it was a logical train of thought, but trust me... it was. Enjoy! I love this cartoon.

it's just a little complex

I just finished my Anatomy lab final and i feel like i should feel a release of pressure. . . anytime now would be good. . . nope. Maybe I'm just afraid of forgeting why i like my corrugator supercilii so much. but really, is it that bad?

Center

i was thinking about waiting til next month to write a new blog so i could make this a monthly thing, but i just felt like typing out some of what I've been thinking about this past week. In one of my classes last week we watched this movie about Chinese medicine and how it differs from Western medicine. Western philosophy seems to be if you have a problem, get rid of it, cut it out, cure it now, fix the problem and make me normal again. The Chinese approach it very differently. It's more of a calm acceptance and experience. Sure they use certain aspects of Western medicine, but not as much as i thought. The part that really grabbed my attention was all the work they did with "chi" or "vital life force." In this hospital there were patients dealing with the same life threatening diseases that we deal with, but there were entire wings where these patients were sitting and meditating and practicing finding their chi and moving it. Or doctors using their own chi to manipulate the chi of their patients. One of the doctors said, "When you have a disease, don't try to cure it. Find your center." That sentence made sense to me. I don't know if it made enough sense to me to try it if i am ever diagnosed with cancer, but...This last fast Sunday was filled with some heavy testimonies. Not that it's bad, but they were just kinda heavy. We all have our trials and our hard times, and it seems to me that when we focus on them and try to overcome them and rid our lives of them, we throw our lives even more out of balance. I think there is truth in that when we are struggling, physically , emotionally, socially, or whatever it may be, we would do well, to not try to cure it, but to find our center instead, who is Jesus Christ, the center of all things. I don't know. Take it for what it's worth. It's easier said than done. Oh, and they also use packages of herbs to put in soups as prescriptions.

High Class

Emily puts on a good dance party. I haven't danced like that for years. It felt pretty good. Thanks Emily!



I think some of the credit has to go to the amazing stretch pants that i found. Those are some good dancing pants...as long as it is good and dark.

A dream IS a wish your heart makes

My dream last night was extraordinarily enjoyable. As is common in my dreams, there was plenty of spanish but this time i wasn't speaking for only myself. Sino que Rachel and i were translating for our entire family since we had taken a family vacation to Uruguay. I think i will consider this dream prophetic. Except for the part that we stayed in a tent on the beach. It was cold and windy. We also found a restaurant in Uruguay that made good pizza! now that is a dream...a dream that i sadly see as utter fantasy.