For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are 

your ways, my ways...   for as the heavens 

are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher 

than your ways and my thoughts higher 

than your thoughts- says the Lord. 

Isaiah 55:8-9

Things to Do #18930494

Compose something beautiful

James Horner

Search James on grooveshark

choose "Play all"

let your playlist be capped at 1,000

and thank the Lord for ridiculously-skilled composers.

This video won't load directly, so sorry. This is for McKinzie.
I'm beginning to understand what drives your passion.

Things to Do #1:

Sit on the bench:

Blue Flag beach, Littlehampton

It is the longest bench.
This one is low on the list. It is, however, first on the blog.

Don't sit on train tracks

"Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there." -Will Rogers
At this point, I would like someone to tell me this daily.

I finished a sketch-painting of a deer, inspired by a piece in the Hamilton's home. Joel requested "classy art" for his room next year. Completely appropriate.

And I told you I'm studying cooler things...

from Quantitative Chemical Analysis, 7th Ed. by Daniel C. Harris

This was in my quant book! Not ochem, not micro. Quant seems more and more like the math of the life sciences. It is the most in-depth, all-encompassing, applicable chemistry course I never knew existed.

All these good classes end Wednesday (pronounced wends-dee). Finals week is a different kind of overwhelming with large blocks of time and a wide scope of information to digest. It makes me want to learn more than study, discuss cool things with my prof instead of taking the exam, and take a job that relates to my future. None of this happens though- I end up just studying because everyone else is doing it. And for me, this constitutes "just sitting there" as far as good serious learning is defined, so I'll probably get run over like most students when the real world comes rolling down the track.

Does that make sense? If you just study, your education doesn't mean much. You may have all the credits to get the degree, but without courage and drive and the guts to seek out opportunities and truly learn, your school plan will run you over. Stand up and do work.

(This is a pep-talk to myself)

For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God's glorious standard.  Yet God, with undeserved kindness, declares that we are righteous.   He did this through Christ Jesus when He freed us from the penalty of our sins. Romans 3:23-24