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can i break the spell of the typical?

this is jumbled because i should be sleeping.

surge is happening again. it felt good to start planning it. it should be good.

i don’t like that a few scant days after claming “live better” as my mantra, i discover walmart beat me to the punch. bastards. lol. jk. but yeah it does kinda stink.

A New Kind Of Christian is a really good book. Not just by it’s thesis (although it’s great), but also that reading it has rejuvenated my desire to embrace, engage, grow, expand my faith.

I truly believe that to live the Kingdom of God as Christ intended is just a fantastic way to live, not just for my benefit, but for the benefit of those around me, and the world in general.

I most assuredly want to be a professional drummer as my career. I am more aware of steps i have to take to get there.

ending with a couple of lists and a quote:

SONGS THAT ARE SACRED TO ME AT THIS POINT
Say by John Mayer
Typical by Mute Math
Open Your Eyes by Snow Patrol
Second Best by Pedro the Lion
Viva La Vida by Coldplay
Lover, You Should’ve Come Over by Jeff Buckley
Who Did You Think I Was? by John Mayer Trio
The Winner Is by Devotchka
Love Is Waiting by Brooke Fraser

Recent Natural Highs
Playing Drums Well, especially blues or jazz
Iron Man
The Celtics Winning
Moments that I notice that a desire for righteousness/wisdom flowed naturally from me.
When I type something really fast and don’t make any mistakes.
Working out in the morning… feeling like I won the battle to start the day right.
getting to show The Sopranos to another soul (Lawton is awesome)
being one pound lighter after one week of working out… I can handle that pace… talk to me in a year.
Realizing one of my most delightful core values of who I am: embracing the sacred in the secular. (thanks for putting it so eloquently for me)

that’s it for now.

“Now if we could just get Drew to find the sacred in the sacred!” – Mike Patz

catching up

more of my notes from when i was at chapter camp.


…OK, so I ate, and prayed some. and i feel a little better. Coldplay helps. Everything’s Not Lost. Life is so, so much bigger than who I end up copulating and spending most of my time with. It’s so hard to realize that sometimes, being on this side of the fence…

Also, i’m about 50 pages out from being done with sacred pathways. So far I am tied with Traditionalist and Ascetic. with Sensate coming in third. Weird, because i have never gone down those roads too far, but I am thinking I should try and see.

so i finished  sacred pathways. my breakdown looks something like this:
1. traditionalist/ascetic
2. intellectual/sensate
3. contemplative
The rest are all like, not high… So, yeah that’s me. I have been busy most of the afternoon with… WORK. that’s right. I know, technically it’s my fault. I should have communicated that more clearly. Alas, my fatal mistake. This place is supposed to have wi fi in several places at the camp, but it only works like half the time. Consequently, I am seen as being unresponsive and uncommunicative. That’s no good. To my own good conscience’s sake, I am currently waiting on calls back from two different people for work stuff. So that makes me feel better.

I started reading A New Kind of Christian. Too early to tell how i feel about it so far. Kelly is currently speaking right now. i am at the back of the stage behind the curtain… searching in vain for the free wifi the camp is supposed to have in this building…

the rest was journaled by hand… i will type up excerpts…

also bookmark http://drewplaysdrums.tumblr.com
I post little notes and funtivities over there pretty often.

ok, goodnight.