doing the truffle shuffle?

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"Life is a constantly morphing thing. Just when you think you know where it's all headed you wake up the next morning to a completely different view. The landscape has changed along with the seasons, but the trees are the same trees, only your view has changed. So you try to cling to the old things that used to comfort you, clinging to the familiar, but they provide little or no solace. The fears do not subside. At this point we have no choice but to surrender to the unknown.

that is where the real beauty lies.

It is not in the knowing, the familiar, the expected. But in the embracing of the unknown. a willingness to walk down a new path and to trust that everything is as it should be. perfect. as it is.

Schopenhauer said,"When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect."

Sometimes there are little glimpses of the perfection, amidst the mess. It is at those times we feel blessed beyond measure." - Keri Smith

OK. Maybe not. That would be tremendously frighteningly scary.

So how about an Ipod shuffle?

Before I get to that, just want to say thanks to the handful of you who still stop by and read every now and then.

I am just in the really extremely busy season of my life. This past week has been kind of crazy chaotic with unexpected things, clients, kids having a ton of stuff on the calendar, and extended family stuff - the day before yesterday we sent my in-laws off on an 18 month mission, and I am currently in California to throw my sister a baby shower and take some pictures, and then I will be flying home Sunday morning to do a session Sunday afternoon. Monday begins another round of craziness.

I could not work through the craziness that is my life without music. I clean to music. I work out to music. I create to music. I edit to music. Music also gets me through a lot of ups and downs in my life. It gets me through those moments when I am so exhausted I can barely keep my eyes open. It uplifts me. It gets me through sad moments. It inspires me.

Most often, you will find me on Pandora. My current 2 favorite stations are Matt& Kim and Vampire Weekend. Awesome stuff there.

Anyhow, back to the ipod shuffle thing. So I was blog hopping and a couple blogs I ran across had the put your Ipod on shuffle thing and name the first 10 songs that come up. Since I have music on the brain tonight (just finished watching "Back and Forth" - the Foo Fighters documentary - seriously amazing), I figured why not give it a go. So with a random shuffle of 6,091 songs, this is what came up . . .

1. "Instant Messenger" - Muse (seriously one of my favorite bands of all time)

2. "Compulsion" - Martin Gore

3."Every Day is Exactly the Same" - Nine Inch Nails

4. "Save the Last Dance for Me" - Michael Buble

5. "You Know My Name" - The Beatles

6. "Use Somebody" - Kings of Leon

7. "Layla" - Eric Clapton

8. "Love Will Come Through" - Travis

9. "Not Afraid" - Eminem

10. "10:15 Saturday Night" - The Cure

and for the heck of it, I did it one more time . . .

1. "Last Dance" - The Raveonettes

2. "Please Do Not Let Me Go" - Ryan Adams

3. "King of Anything" - Sara Bareilles

4. "Full of Grace" - Sarah McLachlan

5. "Some Might Say" - Oasis

6. "Dirty Harry" - Gorillaz

7. "Settlin" - Sugarland

8. "Stop and Stare" - One Republic

9. "Come Follow Me" - LDS Church Hymns

10. "Something" - Jim Sturgess - Across the Universe Soundtrack

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April 09, 2011

doing the truffle shuffle?

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