im like willy nelson....

or at least a little bit, im soon to be on the road again.

this trip has been so much fun, it was exactly what i needed to recharge the batteries before school starts.

elpaso has been good. the rowell's have graciously opened their home to me and have been so fun to be around. i think sometimes i forget what a family unit looks like. its been really cool to be around them this week.

well i really didnt have alot to say. hopefully soon i will have the seattle and el paso pictures up on facebook so be sure to check for those.

i am still mulling the alchemist over in my head, ill get around to penning it when i get home, for now i have to go pack my life back into a little bag again.

see you in ruston....


-dustin

the city....

so i made it to seattle, it was good to see eric, we are currently residing at the green tortoise hostel outside of pike market. its pretty much the in the coolest location ever.

we have been cruising down to the market to wander through all of the fresh flower stands, fresh seafood stands, the bakeries and the fruit stands. the aroma of it all mixed together is intoxicating. it mixed with the hundreds of people down there was a neat sight yesterday, it smelled like life to me, yea, thats the only way to adequately explain it.

yesterday after hanging out and drinking coffee on alki beach and reading i decided seattle would be a nice place to reside. i could certainly get used to it.

so i am reading the alchemist right now. an to be honest it is really speaking to me. it talks a great deal about how the world is so interconnected and how each person must fulfill their own personal legend in their lives. it also talks about how each person is connected to the personal legends of others

and i began to look at the city yesterday and see how i was connected to the people around me. it was such a strange feeling to look at someone i didnt know and see them for the hand of the creator and to see that he had brought us to the same place at the same time and we would never meet again. eric and i began to talk about this and we noticed that we were in the background of some peoples pictures, we talked about how as long as those people owned those pictures we were connected to them. im still trying to sort out all of this in my head, so it probably sounds mushy.

its all very existential in manner and im having trouble wrapping my mind around it, but god is teaching me something cool, i can feel it coming, he just hasnt put all the puzzle pieces together yet.

anyway,

once we came into the city we checked in and eric and i began to cruise the city. we wandered for a while the found ourselves at the space needle. it was pretty cool and we decided to go into the experience music and sci fi museums. both were really cool. then we ordered a bit of pizza and sat in a park overlooking puget sound and ate and read. i finished the alchemist but i think i want to start it again...i know, im ridiculous.

after pizza me and eric went for a stroll on our phones :)

then, to bed i said, to bed.

-dshelbywhitlock

tired...

today was a crazy day, i dont enjoy being the mediator...

i feel like so much is going on....

but i cant really focus enough to write...

i said something today that i didnt mean to say....

but it ended up not being bad at all....

d.s. whitlock