Good Peoples

So yeah, the Purdue peoples were good peoples to us all. The band rocked & the peoples were glad to see us. We played 4 separate sets and the band stayed all in for each one. Good times. It was great playing some music with Todd Burkholder on Electric Guitar and David Farris on Drums. Those guys are a blast to hang out with, let alone play some music with. Good times indeed!

It seems like there's good people everywhere. Last week there were good people in Colorado, and this week some good ones at Purdue University. I'm starting to feel like I'm surrounded.

peace
Dean

On The Road Again

Traveling brings about this sense of "community" like no other. New towns, new faces and friends. The Band is on the road again! This time we're going to Purdue to play for about 1200 College students. Earlier this year we went to Ball State and things were good there. The College scene seems to dig our style a bit and it's tons of fun for me.
Purdue makes me think of good local "greasy spoon" late night restrants as well as a "Hot" Krispy Kreme Donuts. And more than anything "artsy" types. This place is full of really cool artists, musicians, and thinkers. It's gonna be a cool time. I love it when we get the band together for some travel and good times.

Tone

So yeah, I've been thinking a bunch about "Tone" lately. Wondering if there's enough in such a word for a book. It seems like there's this thread of life found simply in tone. This blog for example, must have some application on your part, because you can't hear it. Some of you may hear this with anger, some with pride, some may add a British accent, when really I'm from Virginia. The list can go on and on.
The dialogue becomes fun when we add to this something as valuable as Scripture. In scripture you need to sort of mine for some non-verbal things to insert your own tones. Was he mad when he said that? Or was he laughing? I'm looking for cool non-verbal scenes in scripture.
One example is the scene with Jesus & the rich man, when he said: "Go and sell all that you have and give it to the poor." Forever I chalked that guy off as a looser, until one day I ran into Mark's account (10:21). The verse says that Jesus "looked at him and loved him." Cool stuff there. It seams to change the tone a bit. All those years that the rich young man had walked away a loser were immediately transformed into the guy walking away having been loved by Jesus.

Now that's a cool tone to walk away with.
I'm sure there's more on tone later.

peace

Colorado Springs

I spent the last several days in Colorado playing music and teaching with some awesome new friends. The people were great. The mountains were beautiful as always. I sat up on top of one of the 14ers in Colorado and gained a whole new perspective on God's handiwork. Read some journals of John Muir that blew my mind. That guy is so awesome. His journals are like a photograph only there's no camera.

peace
dean

Day 1: Still Tired from the move.

You might say that it is somewhat presumptuous to imagine that someone else may want to spend some time meandering about your perspectives or even listen to your story, but who knows? There may be some desperate folks out there just like me.
This is day 1 in bloggerville. Something I've wanted to dabble in for quite sometime. The blog title (pulled from a collection of journals by Thomas Merton) seems to sum-up the extent that we will be able to offer one another. I do not always have answers to current questions, but I do have questions and I think a man is known better by his questions than by his answers.
As we converse may the topics be cool & the community kind.

Peace
Dean