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We Make New Sounds: Comings&Goings

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We Make New Sounds. Thursday, August 28, 2008. I've had an ache that comes and goes, the comings becoming longer and the goings shorter as time has progressed since 2006. After spending the first 25 years of my life in California, I reached a point where I simply. needed. out (! As I realized more and more that this wasn't where I wanted to be or spend the rest of my life. Is rooted in positivity, even if that means I'm done with here. It is OK to move because I simply want to move. And during that conve...

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We Make New Sounds: Shake It Up (from 6/20/07)

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We Make New Sounds. Monday, July 6, 2009. Shake It Up (from 6/20/07). It’s days like today that I need something to live for. Life has felt like a series of hoops. I fulfill my obligations, going where I’m supposed to go. I do my duty, clapping when I’m supposed to clap. I go through my routine, buttering my toast on one side. All that to say, I need to shake things up a bit, because what I’m doing now leads nowhere. There are two options: fully in and fully out. January 22, 2010 at 8:49 PM.

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We Make New Sounds: HoldingOn (from 08/27/06)

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We Make New Sounds. Tuesday, April 17, 2007. I just spent ten weeks swirling in a storm that had no eye. I just checked the calendar. Ten weeks. I was guessing around five, as the events I experienced seemingly came free from the skeleton we call time, and, lacking structure, fluctuated however they saw fit, rarely if ever predictable. I knew I was being taught lots of things. When someone has heard God on your behalf and says, "Get ready for a wonderful ride! I learned how far I can be pushed. I now kno...

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We Make New Sounds: The Lone Ranger is an Idiot

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We Make New Sounds. Friday, October 31, 2008. The Lone Ranger is an Idiot. No wonder we are told to keep meeting together. No wonder unity is encouraged strongly in the Bible. No wonder God made Eve. So God created man in his own image,. In the image of God he created him;. Male and female he created them.". The parallelism in these lines, simple as they are, tells me that being with people makes us human, and that the image of God is reflected in our togetherness. As well as in being alone and around pe...

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We Make New Sounds: IgloosInTheDesert

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We Make New Sounds. Tuesday, August 7, 2007. So big decisions are coming up. I've been in an in between place, a desert of sorts where there isn't a clearly marked path, where there's a city I can see faintly ahead, but it's too far ahead to see its architecture and layout; I'm given a rough silhouette and a glimmer of light here and there. I need to be content enough to sit still, to rest and rehydrate. To abide, to trust that my Heavenly Father will see to do doing all that he has said he will. And so ...

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We Make New Sounds: Don't Believe What You're Told

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We Make New Sounds. Tuesday, September 25, 2007. Don't Believe What You're Told. Today I was waiting at the checkout line at Stater Bros, and in front of me were a mother and daughter. I first noticed them because the daughter (maybe 11 or 12? Was talkative and energetic. We were surrounded with tabloids as is usual at the grocery store, where I'm usually more focused on buying groceries. The girl let out an "Oooo! I'm noticing more is just how loudly the voices around us speak. The loud ones. Wi...I liv...