Time

I am reading Chekhov's short stories and in doing so i came across a passage that greatly interested me. The reason that i find it interesting is that all of my friends are so passionate about enjoying life and learning new things but are constantly held back by that evil fiend whispered quietly as time. But we live in the most technologicaly advanced country in the world. These countless technologies serve mainly to "make things easier and faster." Wouldnt it seem that with all these things we would have all the time that we need to read, study, and help those that our hearts are burdened for? This quote was written in 1896.
"If all of us, city and country dwellers alike, everyone without exception, would agree to divide among ourselves the work that is expended in satisfying the physical needs of mankind, each of us would be required to work perhaps two or three hours a day, no more. Imagine if we were able to invent machines to replace our work and tried to reduce the quanitity of our needs to the minimum! What a lot of free time we should have as a result! All of us together would devote this leisure to sciences and the arts. All of us as a community would search together for truth and the meaning of life, and - I am convinced of this - the truth would very soon be discovered."
I am curious what can be said of this? Computers, cars, calculators, microsoft, laptops, INTERNET...truth be found?

Melodies

Tchaikovsky said, "I do not write music. The peasant in the fields writes my symphonies. The butcher writes my ballets. The engineer writes my romance songs. All i do is organize the notes." What an interesting idea from one of classical music's greatest composers. Music's greatest melodies originate from the soul of the common person. Maybe if we would listen to our own song then we would also soar like the melodies that we listen to on our ipods and cd players (or cassette players...

Bunnies

I just wanted to say that my zodiac sign is the rabbit...lets be honest...am i a rabbit?

Men from Bavaria, Georgia, and North Woods

So many times we try to say something politcally engaging and socially embracing
But I think that my life would be something very empty without three men that come from three completely different worlds on three different sides of the world.
Broken stories, abondoned laughter, tears of pain, and a brave vulnerability they have shared with me
They have helped me understand another side of life, culture, relationship, belief, myself and God.

Unity

When did we become so independent? When did our nation become so driven to isolation? By simply looking at our neighborhoods we can see that we are desperately trying to separate ourselves from whomever is living next door. Just by hearing our attitudes in our countless churches it’s obvious that we are desperate not to be associated with church X within a hundred feet of our worship centers. Of course there are those exceptions but overall most churches want to only invest in what will make their specific church more successful just as much as this nation that I dearly love only invests in what will make it more successful. Yet…who among us is not guilty of it? We surround our lives with people that will make us stronger, smarter, more successful. I believe that we must change this and began to form a unity in the church, a unity in our city and a unity in our nation. We can look to our founding fathers for wisdom:
John Jay writes in a letter to the New York newspapers in 1787, “This country and this people seem to have been made for each other, and it appears as if it was the design of Providence, that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren, united to each other by the strongest ties, should never be split into a number of unsocial, jealous and alien sovereignties.”

First Statement

This is my first blog ever to be written. Kind of weird. I guess i have now come into the 21st century