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.

its been a while...

so yea i know its been a while...sorry, so anyway, im thinking about taking this blog thing public...who knows, we'll see....

so today i officially became unemployed, the hospital was closed, i have mixed emotions about it, i will certainly miss the patients...and some of the staff, not so much the waking up at the crack of dawn....

so i know what you are saying "but dustin, what will you do with all that free time?"...

sit around...thats about it, todd's out of school so i think he and i will get to be friends again...

i want to go to vegas...

i find myself so unsure of the future right now and all things considered, i really dont care... its a general attitude of malaise that has taken over for now...and i like it...

i feel the need to explain the name if my blog now, its title is "and like icarus i collide", i find it terribly fitting for my life in that much like icarus, when i give something my best attempt i generally fail miserably. you see icarus decided that he wanted to use his pair of wax wings to fly closer to the sun than any other person had and when he did the heat from the sun melted his wings and he fell into the depths....

i am icarus, when i try to fly and achieve something new on my own merit...my wings melt...

i need new wings to try this...


d.s.w.

a good day....

today was a good day...

i got to go to church this morning and hear a good word, it was something i needed to hear...

afterwards i got to spend some quaility, all be it very frustrating, time with my dad...i needed that too...

then i got to play a little guitar which i havent sat and done in a while...

all of these things were good....

but then the day got even better...

-dustinshelby

another day...

well, here goes nothing,

its been a while since i "blogged"...i hate that terminology...it make me think of boogers....

speaking of boogers, ive been sick all day, thus producing some large ones of the aformentioned...

its been weird lately around ruston, usually about this time i am packing up my life and heading for east texas, it feels good to be home, but strangely i do miss being out there...

ive realized i use an abundance of elipsis in my posts...dont you judge me.

school is crazy, i found out im going to graduate either a quarter early or a quarter late, the latter would end with two masters degrees, there's something prideful about that, im not so sure i want it, or maybe im just being lazy. it would definately broaden my horizons for proffessions in the future....we'll see how it all goes.

as of this friday i will be the only counselor at work...twice the workload for the same pay? what the heck is that about?

i need some type of cathartic release lately. maybe i need an adventure...

eric starts his bike trip today, he's already in rhode island, if youd like to read about his trip go to www.ericbikesamerica.com , you can find his blog there...and a ridiculous picture of him wearing a tuxedo bike jersey.

thats all for now...

-dustinshelby