Not About Wings

So, I was playing around on MySpace tonight after talking to a class of 6th grade students about social networking.... I knew my sister had a page, so I went looking for her, saw she was online, and wanted to send her a message, but you need to be a member to do so. So, I thought this would be my impetus to try setting up a page and get a little "primary source" knowledge. By the time I figured it all out, my sister was no longer online. So I called her. (Guess I could have started there, but where's the fun in that?!) I had to call her, because I couldn't log off MySpace with my profile reading "single" when I am excruciatingly happily married! Thankfully, it was almost as difficult for her to find the "switch," so my librarian "hunter" ego wasn't too damaged.


So, all this to say, Stacy had a song that started playing when her page opened, and it is beautiful! You must give a listen to Not About Wings by downhere. (no longer available - check out their main webpage here)



Here are the words:

Not About Wings
by downhere

Wake dove,
stretch your feathers,
Worry not love,
how far you could fall.
Fly now, darling find how;
A broken wing can feel the best to soar on.
It's not the perch you've climbed to reach,
But the broken wing that's made you meek;
that's when He lifts you high.

Chorus
Believing is not about seeing,
Faith is not about reaching,
and on this journey I keep learning,
Flying is not about wings.

Sparrow trapped by a window,
every resource spent for just one goal.

It's not by work you find your escape,
but in your defeat when you seek his face;
that's when He lifts you high.


How nice is that? Love it!

The Edge

"I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center."

~ Kurt Vonnegut

Blossom

And then the day came,

when the risk to remain tight in a bud

was more painful

than the risk it took to blossom.

- Anais Nin, Danish diarist

Always questionning...

What is community? Who are "we" as we pray "Our" Father? How much do I really want community? How much do I prefer my quiet and solitude? Where is the balance of solitude in community? Where, when and how can the community speak into my solitude - the things I am choosing to struggle in and through all alone?

How will naming my fears aloud bring healing and light and revelation and freedom? How many fears are only fearful when kept in solitude and silence to fester and grow and overwhelm me?

HP 7

Here is a picture of Dariya and me just minutes before midnight, July 21 as we awaited the release and sale of book 7, the final installment - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I am dressed as Mrs. Weasley and Dariya is Luna Lovegood (thankfully, Dariya is just as smart, but not nearly so ditzy as Luna!).





Loved the book! It held surprise "fixes" to problems the other books presented, and I always love a happy ending!

count down clock

Here is the Timeanddate.com countdown for my life in graduate school (assuming I stop blogging and finish my paper before Sunday)

http://www.timeanddate.com/counters/customcounter.html?month=8&day=5&year=2007&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p0=219

Surrender to What Is

Surrender to What Is at inward/outward

Today is the beginning of the end...leading to a new beginning. I hope the thought from the above blog posting can be my focus both today, through the end, and into the new.

Today I will finish (God willing) my final graduate school paper for my Library and Information Science master's degree. Part of me does not want to begin the work(thus I am here) of finishing well. Because then it is all done, gone, over. I am having a hard time finishing this. Ending well. But I am so excited for what lies ahead. I am living in a place of tension, trying to stay present to all that is swirling around me in this moment.