Sunday, January 13, 2008

new lilly pad

Anne Lammot tells us about the lilly pads in our lives. People, places, things, that were simply there to get us to another location or place in our life. I think this blog is now a lilly pad I am in the process of leaving. Gotta move forward right? So I am starting a new blog called

www.devilsconfusion.blogspot.com

I guess I will find out who actually looks at this one still ;)

thanks for reading and following up with my thoughts.

Thursday, January 10, 2008

Music and Water


Thoughts...

Let's say you were to put a glass a water next to speakers and play a song really loud, wouldn't the water move, vibrate or something? Does the ripple from the middle out look cool?

And there was that study by that one guy with the words and bottles of water. He looked at the chemical structure or something before he wrote words on the bottles of water. It was a blueish clearish whiteish snowflake looking thing. A bunch of different snowflakes layered overtop oneanother.

He wrote something like "I hate you!" on one and something like "Love" on another. The one that said "I hate you!"'s chemical structure turned to yellowy, orangeish red shards of glass looking. The one that said "Love" looked like bigger bluer snowflakes.

What does this mean for us, as 90% water when we listen to music with lyrics? No wonder music can be healing. But does that mean what we listen to can also have a negative effect on us? I don't know about you, but I want to be a snowflake.

Poetical Irritability

This is for Roomie. I finally think I understand you...I think. You, my love, are a poet.

Poetical Irritability by Edgar Allen Poe
"That poets (using the word comprehensively, as including artists in general
and you are an artist
are genus irritabile, is well understood; but the why, seems not to be commonly seen.
you came back from Mississippi the first time different and we didn't understand it
An artist is an artist only by dint of his exquisite sense of Beauty--a sense affording him rapturous enjoyment, but at the same time implying, or involving, an equally exquisite sense of Deformity of disproportion. Thus a wrong--an injustice...excites him...
from talking on the phone with you admit that you get worked up ;) ...this next part is beautiful!
Poets see injustice never where it does not exist--but very often where the unpoetical see no injustice whatever. Thus poetical irritability has no reference to "temper" in the vulgar sense, but merely to a more than usual clear-sightedness in respect to Wrong:--this clear-sightedness being nothing more than a corollary
(a deduction from a proposition already proved true)
from the vivid perception of Right--of justice--of proportion--in a word,
here is my favorite, I think...
of Beauty (in Greek).
I can't write in Greek on this blog. Most wouldn't call Poe Christian, but I would. I honestly from reading him don't think that is too far fetched. If not then you have to admit he knew A LOT about faith, and one that seems Christian. But either way, from a Christian perspective, how beautiful is this!!?!?!
But one thing is clear--that the man who is not "irritable," (to the ordinary apprehension,) is no poet." -Graham's Magazine, May 1849


Roomie,
Any time you want to call and vent some poetical irritability to me I would be honored to get excited with you, honored to have you show me where there is injustice in this world. May you always hold on to and utilize, to the best of God's ability through you, this "poetical irritabilty" and continue to see through the "veil of the soul" and then show us where this world needs our help. If our hands are dirty or bloody from hurting this world may you help us stop. If they are clean may you tell us where we can get in there and help.

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Guitars and God

Do you think a guitar would rather look well used but rarely ever be picked up or look brand new-never-before-used and be played everyday?

Think God feels the same way?

Think it matters if you look like you have a relationship with God, or if you actually have a relationship with God? What does Matthew 6 say about how we should be Christian? In secret maybe? For only God to see maybe? An audience of One hearing us play? Maybe.