Falling for Fall
Hello dear hearts,
I’m sitting in my living room, half-watching Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, enjoying the cool autumn air spilling in from the open windows, and, obviously, writing to you. 
Won’t lie, I’m rather distracted as I write this…blame it on Stanley Kubrick. He made 2001 just slow enough for me to want to multitask and yet just interesting enough for me to forget what I’m typing and……
See? It’s probably been about 10 minutes since I typed that last sentence. Anyways. I recently returned from a wonderful 2-week trip to Dallas filled (and I mean filled) with friends and music and more friends. I played my first official “show” at White Rock Coffee…first time to play at a non-church-related event, and it was also my first full set. What a blast that was! I can’t even express how much fun I had. And then I had the honor of playing a small set at the first-ever Walk the Light Festival at The Venue, a rather cool, best-kept-secret kind of place in Forney, Texas. Walk the Light is really a great event that involves all sorts of artists (dancers, painters, musicians, etc) while also benefiting a charity…here’s hoping it’s the first WTL Festival of many!
Hmmm...speaking of shows….there’s another one this Saturday night at the Banana Factory in Bethlehem, PA! Check out the events for more info. (End of shameless plug)
It’s officially fall, my favorite time of year! Having lived in Texas for a while, it’ll be my first autumn in the northeast in 3 years and I am so excited. Sweater weather, red and gold leaves, being indoors and cozy, being outdoors and bundling up, hot tea, soup, pumpkin patches, rows of cornstalks, brown-paper packages tied up with string…haha… And there’s something about fall that somehow makes me feel more productive. Maybe I just associate fall with the start of school, when you are forced to kiss lazy, crazy summer days good-bye and shake hands with a new school year and books and homework and coax the brain to think academically again. This is only my 2nd year of not starting school in the fall, and for me it still teeters on the edge of surreal and absolutely delightful. Yes, I have quite fallen in love with fall.
I’m looking forward to the next few months…I’m hoping they will be peppered splattered with inspiration, clever rhymes, writing, recording…and truth. I’ve been thinking a lot about truth lately. The necessity of truth, the risk of truth, the tangibility of truth…truth and art, truth IN art…just the very concept that there is a thing such as “the truth”. We may not like it, we may not accept it, but it’s there. It exists. I love that Jesus says that He is the Way, the Truth and the Life. I had read that sentence many times…but it wasn’t until the other day as I was ruminating on all this that I suddenly remembered that Jesus is…the Truth. Someone once said, “All truth is God’s truth.” I think so…the truth is the Truth.
Hmmm…apparently fall also makes me very thoughtful.
Well, friends, I had better sign off. This entire blurb of a post is the product of roughly 3 hours. (Stanley Kubrick, I hold you partially responsible.) Have a wonderful day, enjoy the season wherever you are (literally and figuratively)…and if you understand the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey…let me know.