Brain Map

- Tonight I was in the studio painting and started thinking about how they say that scent is the strongest sense tied to memory.

- I started thinking about music and all the nights that I will never forget simply because of the song playing in the background.

- I think of certain people, friends, boyfriends, family members, and the exact feeling I had that night comes back, the smell of the room, what I was wearing, what everything around me looked like, exactly what I was thinking at that moment when we were talking, or maybe what I was thinking about while we were sitting in silence.

- I started thinking about how some "sophisticated" people think that certain music isn't "good" because its not hard enough to play.

- I started to wonder why it matters what chords are played or how they are played.

- Came to the conclusion that music's soul purpose (in my eyes) is to evoke some sort of emotion or feeling.

-As long as you can listen to a song, and it moves you in one way of the other, whether towards action, tears, sleep, or dance, I feel like music has accomplished it's purpose.

-How could God not be real if there is something as beautiful as music for us to hear everyday?

Songs that remind me / have some sort of significance in my life-

Dave Matthews Band- Dancing Nancies

Coldplay- Politik

Coldplay- Lovers In Japan

Bon Iver- Skinny Love

Matt and Kim- Daylight

Needetobreathe- Girl Named Tennessee

LCD Soundsystem- Beat Connection

SIA- Breath Me

Third Eye Blind- Narcolepsy

Incubus- Oil & Water

Jesse McCartney- (dont judge me.) Leavin'

John Mayer- Slow Dancing In A Burning Room

Eric Hutchinson- Rock & Roll

Avett Brothers- I and Love and You

The Strokes- Is This It

Something Corporate- Me and The Moon

Shane and Shane- Yearn

Shawn McDonald- Take My Hand

Passion Pit- Little Secrets

Hillsong- Hosanna

Needtobreathe- Daylight

Guster- Happier

Jump Little Children- Vertigo

No Doubt- Spiderwebs

M. Ward- Chinese Translation

Sufjan Stevens- In The Devils Territory

Sufjan Stevens- Chicago

...more later. bed now.

BRADLLLLEYYYYYYYY

Praise God, easy mac, grass, and music.

upon the epiphany of tonight:

I really wish that people (myself included in all of this) didnt care so much about stupid stuff. let me break it down.

nothing we have on earth, clothes, cds, nice mac computers, tvs, cars, NOTHING is coming with us.

why do we worry so much about how we look? the clothes we try on a million times in a store to get the right size and the right color. lets break it back down to simplicity for a while.

our soul purpose and the whole reason we are wired the way we are is to love and praise the creator of the fingernails on your hands. (and everything else, of course.)

i often find myself worrying about what i will do when i graduate, how i will pay for school, who will i marry, will anyone even want to marry me for that matter? am i going to do missions? will i do graphic design or photography or both?

these questions are so stupid. if there is one thing i've learned as time has absolutely flown by my freshman year, its that we have got to start living for TODAY. which is so hard to do when you're worried about your paper due next week, or your big test tomorrow.

the speaker at FCA tonight told us that we should begin to pray every morning for God to let us touch someone's life TODAY. not for every day the next 3 years of your life, but just today.

Moral of the story, today is important, and that is all. so make the most of TODAY. go sit outside, stop doing homework or studying for 30 minutes and just admire the fact that God decided to let you wake up this morning.

There must be some reason you're here today, i challenge you to figure it out, and then DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

now go save the world.