Life is so different

Things are so different these days. I look forward to cleaning the house and reading books. I call people to hang out and they actually want to. I invest time in others and they invest time in me. I’m almost always busy with something. I have projects I want to do this summer and every intention of doing them. I have people in my life who genuinely care. It’s pretty cool. I’ll have more, I know it’s been a while. I’m just saying,  life is different, and different is good. So so good.

Quotes

I was searching quotes today, and these are a few I’ve found that made me go, hmm.

Just because something is unbelievable does not mean you shouldn’t believe it.  Put another way, some things are worth believing in whether they’re true or not.  ~Jeb Dickerson

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.  ~Eric Hoffer

I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours.  But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places.  Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.  ~H.A. Overstreet

Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.  ~Henry Ward Beecher

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.  ~Ludwig van Beethoven

He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once.  ~Robert Browning

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.  ~Victor Hugo

Music is an outburst of the soul.  ~Frederick Delius

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.  ~Alphonse de Lamartine

Music that gentlier on the spirit lies,
Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
~Alfred Lord Tennyson

Are we not formed, as notes of music are,
For one another, though dissimilar?
~Percy Bysshe Shelley

Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.  ~Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive.  And then go and do that.  Because what the world needs are people who have come alive.  ~Attributed to Howard Thurman

Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.  ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.  ~James A. Froude

There are joys which long to be ours.  God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.  ~Henry Ward Beecher

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.  ~Dr. Alexis Carrel

It’s Christmas time!

I absolutely love this time of year.

I love the red Starbucks cups. I love the lights around the neighborhood. I love hearing stories from people about past Christmas experiences. I love seeing my parents house all decked out in Santas and the enormous tree. I got to help decorate this year. That was fun. I love the music. I love that for the most part, people try to get out of themselves and help others. Donating time or money or gifts to those less fortunate. I love spending time with family and friends with coffee and a fire in the fireplace. I love finding the perfect gift for someone. I love the smell of the first snow. I love the sound of the scissors cutting wrapping paper, and making the ribbon curly. I love all the Christmas movies. I love the traditions. I love peppermint mochas. I love watching the snowflakes swirl around outside my window. I love finding the perfect snowman to add to my collection. I love cute scarves, winter hats and knee length pea coats. I love Christmas episodes of Psych. Now don’t get me wrong, I do tend to get a little lonely, and I understand cases of the bah humbugs. I get them just like everyone else. But for the most part, I’m happy.

I love that I believe.

I love that I’m able to recognize all the things that I love.

Merry Christmas!

Be still.

This video was very moving for me. I hope you like it too. If you have faith in God or some sort of being bigger than yourself, maybe it’ll move you too.

BE HERE NOW from blaine hogan on Vimeo.