ADVENTURE!

YEA!

so today i booked my flights to seattle. i am so super pumped about going. i think i am so excited because this is the adventure i have been craving all summer. going and doing things that i havent done and seeing places i havent seen before....im a little bit excited.

i talked to eric this morning, he was at 9,000 feet. he said that he and another rider were the first ones to the top and the view gave him chills. for the first time all summer i can say i was truely jealous of him. to hear the way he talked about the scenery and how it was so evidently made by the hands of our creator....yea way jealous.

but, i know that i am in ruston this summer for a reason. and i am enjoying it. i feel like the work that kyle and i are doing around the house is service for our roomates so that when they return they will be able to jump back into life in ruston. yesterday we powerwashed the house and cleaned out the garage. what will we work on next?

i am excited about the next few weeks, full of birthdays, flights, adventures, tests, sunsets and beaches, and friends coming home.

i was listening to this song this morning so i'll leave a bit of it.....

I like songs about drifters - books about the same.
They both seem to make me feel a little less insane.
Walked on off to another spot.

-the world at large- modestmouse

i like that, today im feeling a little less insane....

-dshelbyw

apathy....

i came here to write something....but i just dont feel like it...

salud...

d.

on a holiday...

ive decided i like the idea of calling a vacation a "holiday" instead, it feels very british....i like it

so this weekend we went on holiday to the lake. a good time was had by all lots of sun, swimming, fishing and hanging out with some fun people. well actually lots of fishing but no fish catching...stupid fish....

anywho, i got to spend a lot of time with kyle, paddling around the lake with him was good times...even though the damn fish werent biting...

i also got to spend alot of time with this girl i like. i am beginning to feel that comfortable feeling ive been missing. minus the mild freak out things are really good. slow, slow is key...

all in all it was a good holiday.

-dustinshelbywhitlock

rendered helpless

the other day i realized soemthing amazing about myself, i realized that music is such a part of my life that i can barely live without it. you see, my ipod broke, or rather i broke it by carelessly dropping it to the floor completely shattering the screen. this series of events (meaning me dropping it and then the screen shattering) rendered me completely helpless.

so i began to think about how i feel when im broken. when the Father has brought me to a place where i am rendered helpless. those feelings of lostness and loneliness. ive been feeling these feelings lately, just feelings like ive gone missing. maybe its being in ruston this summer, or maybe its something else but then i began to realize that the Father always has a plan for me to be a better version of my same old self. that when im broken im at my most vulnerable and he has brought new circumstances into my life that i would not have been prepared for if i wasnt broken. He is doing something in me that i dont undrestand, but i look forward to.

i also guess i understand a little more about why He's given me these passions to play. even when i dont like the circumstances i need to do what the Father has gifted me to do.

enough of that, i smashed my old ipod up, hilarity ensued when i pulled on the battery and it shocked the hell out of me, of course giving the ipod the last laugh....damn technology...here are the pictures.