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Sally in MySpace

(think Muppets -- Pigs...In...Space!)



Yes, I have ventured into the hard-bodied world of MySpace. I was talking about it with 6th graders, and wanted to see what it was all about for real.



Check me out!



Sally's profile

(Ah, the beauty of a professional hair stylist and make up artist!!)



On MySpace (thanks to my sister Stacy who is one of my three friends - feels like H.S. again!), I have also been introduced to a great band and a great solo artist - check them out and give them a listen!



downhere

I like their song Not About Wings, which seems to no longer be on their MySpace page, but it is on their band website. You'll need to click to download Thunder After Lightning, then you can have a little listen.



Kari Jobe

I've been listening to her songs posted here as I type this, so I now love all of them!



All of this in the name of professional research! I'm amazed how many 20-somethings request to be my "friend." Following my own advice, I do not accept anyone as my "friend" that I do not know (or at least who isn't my same vintage! Haven't had any requests from anyone claiming to be in their late 30's yet.)

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!