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I graduated. . . And I'm sitting in Starbucks listening to outtakes that I saved from a recording session Megan and I had yesterday, and I feel like a lizard sunning on a rock: content. Perfectly happy to be out sunning; perhaps not a care in the world.
And while the cares I have outnumber both my hands, I cannot express how wonderful it feels to stay up until 3:30 AM reading a book, not worrying about needing to write a two-page summation due the same day. My printer will get dusty. My exegesis skills will probably grow weak. Academia done good to me, but I love that I can learn what I want, when I want, at the pace I desire- and the proof I've learned will not be a test, but life-change, fruits of the spirit...a sweet aroma about me.
One thing is for sure: I will not stop learning. It just won't be in the same fashion. To some degree, I think my vigor for learning is more fierce than it's been in some time because I don't have a time constraint, nor do I have to prove to anyone that I'm intelligent. I am...what I am. And that's good enough, I guess.
Like I said, I spent a few hours recording with my friend Megan, a woman with a dynamic voice and the potential for musical greatness. We recorded vocals and guitar all in the same room, on the same track. We sang and played and had a great time. We recorded in the bathroom- it's got the best natural reverb a house can offer. Aside from perhaps a stairwell with cement walls encasing it. But houses don't have that too often. Except basements, which oddly (due to inclement weather) don't really exist in Tornado Alley. This, I will ner' understand.
We recorded upstairs because the bathroom was a bit bigger. I sat on the toilet. We set up shop. It was so hot that sweat was dripping from us- the mark of true hard work I'd say. Passion, laughter and sweat was poured into a few tracks of girls messing around with a guitar, and I was pretty proud of the way they turned out. Of course, there's always room for improvement. At times I was flat, which gnaws at the musical perfectionist in me. I also could've lessened the guitar's effects so that the voices carried the song, and I could've been more creative in the way I played chords-using variations instead of plain 'ole D's and G's.
But I like the messiness within it. It has character. It has us. Our voices blend and we are a testament to God's gift to His people to reflect His nature, who He is. Nobody ever said Glorifying God came in the essence of perfection. Perhaps it is most often seen in the muck and mire. You think?
There's a man in Starbucks who goes around killing flies with a newspaper. He doesn't work here. He just assumes the postion of exterminator. He wears khaki shorts, but they might look a little better if they were pulled down just a tad. He wears large wire framed glasses that don't frame his face but make it look bigger. He just strolls around the coffee house with a rolled up newspaper, a determined look on his face. He takes his job very seriously.
The ambiance of a coffee house is what I love- but not here at Starbucks. There's no real ambiance. It's noisy, and expensive, and I feel they expect their customers to be quick and nomadic- not lounge around. But I take my time checking my email. Which I don't even get from Starbucks but the hotel whose easter- yellow paint looks bland against this establishment. Take THAT corporate America.
Though if there was an ambiance, it'd be ruined everytime the dude with the high shorts and big glasses incessantly massacred the flies in here. He also grunts victoriously when he gets one.
I'll bet he likes his independence too. He spends his days mostly in here it seems, chit chating with whomever will give him the courtesy of eye contact and a smile, and of course, his integral position as volunteer-extermintator of flying vermon. He people watches. I wonder what he thinks of me.
Until we get internet at my house, I won't be blogging too much. But I'm sure you won't be too disappointed- you being. . . whoever still reads this.
Press On.
Phil. 3:13-14
-Becca
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