the rock candy's melted, only diamonds now remain...

there are somethings you learn to appreciate more when you can no longer have them. there are things that you learn to appreciate more when other things in your life are gone. this is what God likes to call teaching gratitude.

my closet has two doors that meet in the center that are on little spring-track sliders and hinge-like things in the corners (notice my use of technical terms). yesterday my left closet door mysteriously fell off the track when i opened it. after about 40 minutes of what i thought was fixing it and having it pop back off the track again every time i tried to make it function, i just kind of propped it up against the right door to make it appear as though it were closed. the problem with this is, every time i have to open the closet to get anything out, the door falls down again and i am stuck maneuvering it back in to it's propped up position. needless to say, i have never been more grateful for my right closet door. it still (for the time being) operates properly and serves as part of my temporary solution as it allows for me to perform my lovely propping routine in order to convince myself that my closet is indeed closed. in this moment in my life, i am in love with my right closet door, and terribly lost without my left.



anyway, it is a minimal example, but God works in mysterious ways sometimes. it is helping me to see the "big picture" with a bit more clarity.

i leave you with this thought:

"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful."- Buddha

worse than you will ever know

music=life
therefore,
here are the albums that i could not live without...

any given thursday, disc 2: john mayer
as/is, disc 2: john mayer
august and everything after: counting crows
australia: howie day
before these crowded streets: dave matthews band
the best that i could do- 1978-1988: john mellencamp
close: live at mcclains: tyrone wells
continuum: john mayer
cracked rear window: hootie and the blowfish
the devil and god are raging inside me: brand new
dizzy up the girl: goo goo dolls
elizabethtown os: various artists
everything in transit: jack's mannequin
evil empire: rage against the machine
footloose os: various artists
friction, baby: better than ezra
greatest hits, volume one: the beach boys
greatest hits: elton john
grind os: various artists
the guest: phantom planet
heavier things: john mayer
the hits: garth brooks
hold on: tyrone wells
hot fuss: the killers
inbetween dreams: jack johnson
inside wants out: john mayer
international superhits: green day
jars of clay: jars of clay
little by little: harvey danger
maybe you've been brainwashed too: the new radicals
nothing left to lose: mat kearney
o: damien rice
office space os: various artists
rearviewmirror: greatest hits disc 1 and 2: pearl jam
remember the titans os: various artists
room for squares: john mayer
sams town: the killers
sleepless in seattle os: various artists
tell all your friends: taking back sunday
who we are instead: jars of clay
your favorite weapon: brand new

i am sure i forgot some, but that is a good start.
that is all.