a swift shout out

This is a shout out to my homegirl. After much anticipation, T Swizzle's 1989 album came out today and she nailed it again. 

After work, I drove all the way to Super Target to buy the hard copy of her newest album, just like I did in high school with every other album I waited for (John Mayer's Continuum, Keane's second album that I can't remember because it just wasn't very good, every Guster album after Keep it Together, just to name a few). I stood in line to check out, feeling like my giddy 16 year-old self and holding just the album - no groceries or extras. I thought about picking up some things I needed for practicality's sake, but savoring the high school moment was just too good.

I didn't buy the album from iTunes because TS put unique polaroids in every hard copy of the album (pictured above)  and I drove all the way to Target because Target was the only place that had the deluxe copy with 3 extra songs. 

And that's why I unabashedly love T Swift. She does whatever the freak she wants. And she helps remind me of my young and awesome self. 

One of my other favorite lines (apart from the lyrics listed on the two polaroids above):

"I got a long list of ex-lovers, they'll tell you I'm insane; 

'Cause you know I love the players, and you love the game."

-Track 2 "Blank Space"

Boom, son.

the apple of God's eye

First, I would like to thank the band Sleeping at Last for making the most beautiful song I've heard in a while, which I stumbled upon this weekend because of a series of fortunate events. It nearly brings me to tears every time I listen, so I've probably almost cried approximately 150 times. What can I say? I am, as a general rule, an emotional nuclear bomb.

Anyway.

I had one of the best drives I've had in a while tonight.

It was one of those magical moments where the weather, my thoughts, and my music are completely and perfectly in sync with each other - a phenomenon I call my trifecta.

The weather: The sky was a vibrant pink ahead, with a brilliant yellow and gold sunset behind, so bright that it lit up the mountains to the left. Overhead shone the most vivid, complete rainbow I've ever seen, with a second softer rainbow right next to it. The end of the rainbow was so clear and defined I could see the full spectrum. In the distance smoky rain clouds threatened to break the sunset, but in that moment they just added to the intrigue.

The music: this song. "Sun" by Sleeping at Last

"We are the dust of dust."

"We are the apple of God's eye."

"We are infinite as the universe we hold inside."

My thoughts: I am so grateful I have a God who loves me. That He knows what I need and blesses me with a beautiful world to love and enjoy. That He gives me the friends that I have and the family that I love. I have been given so much and have so many opportunities to live and be happy.

I love the line from that song {called "Sun" appropriately}, "We are the apple of God's eye." Sometimes I have a tummy ache and sometimes I feel like I'm hard to love and sometimes I find it hard to believe that I am someone special. But we all have this incredible, unconditional, and infinite love from a God that doesn't care about all the things that we as humans care about. He loves us and will always love us. I love that and I felt that especially tonight, due to the tender mercy of my trifecta at the right time.

We are the apple of God's eye, how beautiful is that?