Good morning.

It’s been a long time since I have been awake this early without needing to be at work, so after fiddling with Noah’s microwave for about ten minutes trying to heat up some who knows how old coffee, I am sitting on the porch and enjoying the wonderful weather. August has become my new favorite month. It has been raining so much, and getting much much colder. But the weather still proves that Colorado hasn’t entered its nine months of winter quite yet. I have to enjoy this leisurely porch time while I can. 

I’ve been crazy busy with my band (Be Thou My Vision.) I enjoy the company of those boys so much, I’m very lucky. We are playing shows non-stop, and welcoming all kinds of musicians to play music with us depending on who’s coming through town. This last show we had Josh’s friend Michael from Dallas open and Josh and Jake’s friend Jesse from California play the whole show with us. It was fun and erupted into an epic dance party afterwards with DJ Juice Box (Tall Cities Christopher.) We’re playing two shows with LeftMore this week, which I am very excited for. We are trying to play their entire Winter Tour with them, which would be amazing. So everything has been good on the music front. Other than working and that I have been trying to spend time with all of the good friends that I have who are leaving. Although it’s nice to have friends all over the country, it’s impossible for me to take trips to see all of you. So good job guys. Thanks. So hello! I’m not full of fun things to say at the moments besides I miss everyone, and hope that all is well.

I am a mindless child

I am busy busy busy. Or I just feel like I am. I am still recuperating from the flu I got from playing in the Pacific Ocean for too long on a cold day (I know, still.) I am very grateful for my trip to Portland and wish it could have lasted longer. I just took my small neighbor Natalie to ballet where she was lost in a sea of seventy other little girls who are dressed like spirits but look like trees because they have a recital tomorrow. So now I am waiting for her to be done, and I just want to take a nap.

Today I watched the History channel for a good two or so hours about the year 1968. It was very interesting to see the time line of that year and how insane it was. There was this guy named Mark Rudd who was all about radicalism that started the Columbia University Revolt which raged on for days and involved the students of the University taking over five different buildings and ended with an intense student vs. police fight. Rudd’s mindset was that if they could start a revolt big enough, maybe they would put an end to Vietnam. I think it also had something to do with the building of a segregated gymnasium in a nearby park. And then I watched Robert Kennedy’s thank you speech after he won the California vote for democratic candidacy, and then his assassination. It was really sad and actually made me cry. I haven’t mentioned anything about Martin Luther King Jr. because I came into the program too late. 

 

So that’s all I have to say for now. Amos’ blogs are always so much better and more interesting. But that’s Amos for you, always better than everyone else.