Jose Gonzales -- Heartbeats
Schuyler Fisk -- From Where I’m Standing
Damien Rice -- Coconut Skins
The Gourds -- Dying of the Pines
The Album Leaf -- Story Board
Modest Mouse -- Dashboard
Cold War Kids -- Hang Me Up to Dry
A Few Lessons learned in 2007:
-- Challenge yourself more, don’t just coast through life….use diligence, determination, and discipline to develop new skills; mentally, emotionally & spiritually stimulate & challenge yourself on a regular basis
-- My mother taught me to judge the things I spend my time on by the 3 following categories;
*Does it discipline or strengthen my body.
-- Take the time to learn about others. The one and only Ron Rigby reminded me this year that the greatest gift is a portion of thyself. To me, that means time. Take the time to find out why people are the way they are, what they think about, what they care about, worry about, and love the most. Just listen. When you do, you are blessed with an increase in love for others, a genuine desire to serve, more patience and understanding, and best of all, you are blessed with the choice of taking those things and adding then upon yourself to expand your awareness, and add to the greatness that makes up you.
Helpful Quotes of 2007:
“It’s not about perfection, victory, or invulnerability. It’s about ABSOLUTE vulnerability. That’s the only true courage” (Peaceful Warrior, Dan Millman)
“Sometimes when we lose our selves in fear and despair; In routine, and constancy; in hopelessness and tragedy; we can thank God for…reassurance in a familiar hand on our skin; in a kind and loving gesture, or a subtle encouragement, or a loving embrace, or an offer of comfort.….And we must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties which we assume only accessorize our days, are in fact here for a much larger and nobler cause. They are here to save our lives.” (from the film Stranger Than Fiction)
“Some Christians carry their religion on their backs. It is a packet of beliefs and practices which they must bear. At times it grows heavy and they would willingly lay it down, but that would mean a break with old traditions, so they shoulder it again. But real Christians do not carry their religion, their religion carries them. It is not weight; it is wings. It lifts them up, it sees them over hard places, it makes the universe seem friendly, life purposeful, hope real, sacrifice worthwhile. It sets them free from fear, futility, discouragement, and sin—the great enslavers of men’s souls. You can know a real Christian, when you see him, by his buoyancy” (Twelve Tests of Character, Harry Emerson Fosdick [1923], 87–88).
“You shake and shake the ketchup bottle; none will come, and then a lot’ll”
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