light the world on fire (for christine).
in Loved Ones, MP3, video
as birthday, candle, colors, dreams, fire, friend christine, glow, God, Happy, happy birthday, heart, hill, lyrics, monsters, rendition, standard, today, ukelele, world on fire
I was gonna do a little rendition of that old standard, Happy Birthday, for my friend Christine today. But then I got to thinking…And decided to just write something else for her.
(It’s the first thing I’ve written on my ukelele)
Lyrics:
Though life’s not quite always what it seems
You still need to paint the world with all your dreams;
Even though the colors change from time to time,
My friend, you stay yourself, you stay sublime
For the monsters, they come out when it grows dark
That’s why you light a candle with your heart;
and to the hungry, we speak words that become bread
we say good things to our friends and they are fed
So light the world on fire, and I’ll spread a blanket on a hill
Where I will watch it glow from now until–
all the world’s ablaze or at least unfazed
By those who tell us not to dream
Thank you, Christine, for continuing to believe in all the good and perfect things that God gives so generously. Thanks for always reminding me of these things. Please never stop. And happy birthday, my friend.
white dress.
in MP3, Performance
as aisle, band, clouds, colors, dress, fly, friend jacob, garage, garage band, home, jacob, mom, rain, simple, song, storm, talented friends, today, voila, way, while, white dress
white dress (with jacob on guitar)
And my friend Jacob accompanied me on the guitar, which was very very nice of him. It’s awesome to have such talented friends. And even better when they are kind.
He learned it and then we pressed record on garage band and voila!, there you have it.
And for people like my mom who like to read the lyrics, here you go:
I once wore a a white dress;
they said it made me look my best, they said it made me look my, look my best
I walked down that aisle;
they said it’d last for more than just a while,
it’d last more than just a whileI bought a small home;
it was nothing special, ‘cept that it was ours,
yeah, it was ours alone
I painted every wall;
I thought it was that simple
didn’t know the colors mattered not at allbut these plans, they change, yeah they fall down like the rain
ain’t nothing left to do, but let it wash right over you
and I sometimes see the clouds, they warn me of the storm
but sometimes I see nothing but the day that I was born
I was unsuspecting then of what things may come my way,
and now nothing much has changed since that dayI watched him walk away; I cried myself to sleep that night
cried myself awake the next day
I couldn’t walk alone, but my friends, they disagreed,
they said I’d stand, they said I’d fly, they said I’d fly
so this is easter.
in I Lift My Eyes Up, photography, Thoughts and Feelings
as brother jason, candles, colors, day, Easter, easter sunday, Eggs, Eve, God, Jason, kinship, little bits, love, method, nobody, pretty pictures, something, thumbnail, ukrainians, upload, wax, way
*updated to include the pic now; thanks for fixing it, Jase! I have pretty pictures to upload here. Of eggs, dyed lovely colors. And I have a thumbnail that is dyed orange to prove that I, along with some friends, dyed those eggs. And even decorated them in a way that used wax and candles [...]
