"hello hurricane... you can't silence my love!"

for p@, (and the rest of the world...)

just got back from publix, probably the best grocery store ever!  i could spend hours in any grocery store... don't know why, i just love it!  also love the day off.  cookin' mahi for my love tonight... and for the record, laura and i's cooking ratio... about 20:1 (her 20 meals to my 1, she's the better chef!) (also known as limiting :))...

what's new you ask?  (why, it's only been 4 months since my last post.)  i'll preface by saying the move to columbia SC was bittersweet (see prior posts)... but, other than missing folks, it's been awesome!  and although "new" is often difficult, this has been nothing but good for us.  we feel even more independent, we have better/better paying jobs, a new audience, and an ever growing number of new family members to add to the many we've already been blessed with.  and yes, columbia, you're a new home to add to the list...  we've been...

busy... and good busy too.  up until the last couple of weeks, i accrued overtime on every paycheck!  slow season they call it now, but thankfully still workin'.  what are we doing?  first, the brief on laura: she's still rockin' out the news... producing the morning show for the local NBC affiliate, WIS-TV.  the morning show's May book was the best in quite a while!  she enjoys it yes, but she's starting to get the feeling she won't be writing for the news for the rest of her life... her heart is open to what may be next... whatever it is, even more than now, will be the best channel (pun intented) for her passion.  she's a fighter though, and she'll give this 110% to the end.  me?  everything from setting up powered speakers on sticks (stands) for a b-day party to building stages and flying arrays for music festivals... and "everything" in-between... last week i manned audio for Vice President Joe Biden.  seriously?  yes.  did a good job too, humbly speaking, even with the 1970's house system i had to work with.  folks asked, "weren't you nervous?"... no, actually.  without belittling his title, a job is a job for me, no matter who it is... i.e. i'm not going to give any less of me to the local band, and turn around to work harder for the national artist... i will give my best to both, period.  (though i've learned some feel they deserve more...)

sushi is awesome!

...the truth is, everything we have we should count as loss (Philippians 3).  nothing is really ours anyway.  i've felt a little complacent recently, and felt as though i'm in neutral, but i still feel i'm learning.  i'm reminded daily of what good stewardship really is, and i suck at it.  God forgive me.  time is the worst.  decent at money... sticking to the tithe for sure, would be scared not to.  interestingly, we've been good stewards of our music.  we've been given opportunities, thanks to a new friend, to gig quite a bit.  a few weeks ago, after a set at a local bar, we were called "Christ-y" during conversation with a stranger... ha-freakin'-larious we thought... but we were humbled by it immensely!  to sit back and know that HE's coming through, is exciting... oh yeah, Jesus is hanging out with us at bars... (what?  He would've went regardless!)

haven't been writing much though, :(... laura has written one new song since the move, ironically titled "A Piece of Home" (it's awesome), but i just haven't been in my writing "zone"... sad, considering i feel there's been enough inspiration.  some new material will come soon though... i'll just go ahead and type that into existence.

since the majority of folks who'll read this are not columbians, we sincerly love and miss each of you!!!  i cry a little just thinkin' about it... seriously... perhaps it'd be fitting to follow laura's path, and write another new song about our prior "home" and the people we love there.  some of you also physically relocated, and it should be obvious that you're included in the loving and missing as well!  one truth we'll always know to be true... there's no distance in prayer!  we do love this place and the people here, and we know we're here for a reason.

i guess that's it for now (p@).  i hope it won't be so long before i write again that you'll have to remind me to.  come visit us!

- d.