Life is About Rhythm.

I had an idea. It took us on a trip.

Once arriving on VanIsle there was a 4 hour drive north followed by another couple of hours of bumping and rattling along on rutted out logging roads. At the end of the road and at the edge of civilization is where we left our van and set out on the 90minute hike through BC’s ancient rainforest which, to our total enjoyment, deposited us on a massive sand beach pounded by the cold Pacific surf. The next piece of land from there? Japan. Or so I liked to imagine.

The beach, world class and empty – except for two girls, stretched out for a couple of km’s littered with drift wood, fishing boat salvage, gorgeous sunsets, and plenty of room to think and write. No TV. No cell phones. No laptops. No music. No distraction. I sat for hours – literally – just simply watching the tides.

The surf and the tides, like a fire on a summer night, are mesmerizing. There seems to be a certain rhythm and flow of the waves as they crash in against the beach that draws you in and hardly lets you go. That spell on me was interrupted as a lone surfer walked across the beach towards the water at high tide…the surfer, fully clothed, was mostly the silhouette of a girl that I watched paddle out to enjoy life and live at only the momentum of the ocean. No faster. No slower. Simply in rhythm.
-e.d.

Evangelicals in The News Again...

The news has been abuzz with controversy surrounding the allegations that leading evangelical pastor Ted Haggard had a three-year homosexual relationship with a male prostitute that included drug use. Haggard is pastor of a 14,000-member church in Colorado, president of the National Association of Evangelicals that has some 30 million members, friend of men like George Bush, and outspoken opponent of homosexuality and gay marriage.

Read more here in the Globe and Mail.

Read Mark Driscol's thoughts on the matter here.
-e.d.

tags: Ted Haggard

A Def'n of Foo:

November 17th is the day that you can go and pick up my longtime favorites NEW CD. The most amazing thing is that today...that's right...today, you can go and listen to the whole thing on their myspace acount. It's called Skin and Bones by the mighty mighty Foo Fighters.
Oh my.

On another note; I am looking for free or cheap (in that order) an accoustic guitar.
-Jer

Great quote from one of my favorite authors,

Particles of raw inspiration sleet through the universe all
the time. Every once in a while one of them hits a receptive mind, which then
invents DNA or the flute sonata form or a way of making light bulbs wear out in
half the time. But most of them miss. Most people go through their whole lives
without being hit by even one.

Some people are even more
unfortunate. They get them all.

-Terry Pratchet