"Skinny Love"

This is such an amazing song and performance. I think everyone needs to hear and experience it.

Everything in the way he sings his notes in the song is a result of everything that happened to him prior to singing that song. The voice itself is aged with layers of complexity and experience.

For the record, I've also been pronouncing Bon Iver wrong for a very long time prior to this video.

Surrexit Dominus vere, alleluia!

Translated: "The Lord is risen indeed!"

:) Happy Easter everyone.

I join my sentiments, hopes, and prayers for you with my parish priest, Fr. Terry (He has a cool website at http://www.frterryfulton.org/ ), when he said to me:

"May the resurrected Lord bring you peace, joy, and happiness".

At the close of Lent, one of my hopes was an end to a suffereing I had been going through. And although only when I am tested in that way can that particular suffering be realized to have ended (and, indeed, I hope it has ended), God wanted me to remember that even though perhaps it may be my time to have finished in that particular suffering and time to go through another, some people are still suffering through Lent and after... some people are still living an inconceivable and unique pain.

The thought, which is in fact a reality for many people, so captivates the interiors of my heart. As I pray to the resurrected Lord, my heartache is soothed, yet, and for good purpose, still longs for their peace, joy, and happiness.

And yes, this day is a holy day! Jesus went through insurmountable suffering victorious, and even He conquered death in all forms!

In the extent of my logicality and reasoning, there only lies distress - but at the end of it all, my faith tells me different. My faith tells me to keep praying through and thanking God for His crosses (sufferings), my faith tells me my suffering won't be in vain, my faith tells me in the end, everything will be okay. (My God, You touch my heart so lovingly, I proclaim these words for Your glory!)

My faith also tells me to love others in the same way Jesus loves me ... and allow Him to work miracles through that love.

Although I'm definitely not as good as loving you all as the good Jesus loves you, may this be my call to answer, reflect and imitate, and heed.

"In the twilight of our life, we shall be judged by love."-St. John of the Cross

Yours,
Aaron

"After a Run"

My own "genre work":

I close my eyes and listen
The birds sing melodiously
The sun feels gentle in its caressing

My eyes are still closed
The grass texture is springy
And I pretend the cars sound
Like ocean waves hitting the sand

I open my eyes and see
The birds, the sun, the grass, and the cars
Fresh air travels in and I am alive

An Attempt at "Simple Complexity"

Sometimes it's hard for me to put into words the sense of depth and thoroughness I try to approach a certain topic/argument/belief/suggestion. I'm trying to be a critical thinker, and even though I see aspects of truth and goodness in most of every rebuttal, it's difficult trying to make sense of it all into an "answer" (in which, perhaps, it seems there isn't any apparent empirically, and/or I just don't have the whole "picture" yet).