amidst the hustle

grass in the Shenandoah valley // august 2013

Because I need to remember that I can't just lesson plan for music classes day in and day out. That I must keep growing and challenging myself and making simple and beautiful things.

01. make sourdough bread
02. make cheese
03. start a fall garden...get manure for the soil
04. read Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
05. read I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
06. run, preferably on the beach, preferably in the morning, preferably at sunrise...but I think that's too much to ask
07. host another thought dinner
08. try making another batch of kimchi. you'll get it right this time.
09. practice film photography. keep track of the settings for each photo in a lil notebook.
10. write and send more letters.

listening these days

photo cred

When I should have been planning for a lesson on all things Egypt...I was compiling a list of recent fav albums. Very important, very important: 

01. Thin, Lowland Hum

02. A Dawn I Remember, Holly Arrowsmith 

03. Yellow House, Grizzly Bear 

04. Killer + the Sound, Phoebe Bridgers and Noah Gunderson 

Also, dreaming of when I will have time to make things like sourdough bread and really dive into film photography. I recently took a position as the music director for a Catholic school. Needless to say, I will be working hard this year. I am grateful and honored, but also slightly scared of the transition. I am not in control of this life, but I get to live it.

Also, so grateful for recent reconnection with souls I love. With two very important people in my life having either moved away or gone travelling for a time, I found myself reaching out to old friends. Isn't it beautiful how interconnected you may be with someone although physical distance remains?