So, while I am definitely getting tired of the snow, we have been following it for what feels like months now, it came in handy last night. Last night, here in Easton, PA, they cancelled our show, so all we had to do was a load in and then came back to the hotel. This is our first hotel in I think a week and a half, so I was very grateful for the night off. They even had Karaoke at the hotel bar last night and I sang Fishin in the Dark by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
Since my last post I have been to: Lowell, MA (a place where the goal of my touring career is to get on a show that does not play here); Portland, ME; West Point, NY; Indiana, PA; University Park, PA; and am now here in Easton. Tonight we leave for Waterbury, CT.
A friend of mine posted a picture, both in their blog and on fb that really makes me want to get back in shape. They are a runner, as am I even though I haven't done it in forever, but I'm thinking after I write this post I may sneak on down to the hotel gym before my bus call. If nothing else I really need to do some push ups and crunches in my room. I've also thought about picking up yoga again (the again being I did it during one of my acting classes in college). One of our cast members told me about a yoga studio that has free podcasts that take you through the various salutations and such. We shall see if I actually do any of the above. Friends, you are more than welcome to text, fb, skype my butt to encourage/push me to work out, it would be much appreciated.
Junto:
I finally finished reading The Five Love Languages, and would like to revisit the issue of love. It has always been an issue that fascinates me, from finding out what my friends believe love is, to seeing how it is possible to deceive yourself into loving someone. But in this post, I want to look at the differences between love and hate, though I welcome comments from my friends on what you believe that love is, especially now that all of you are getting married and engaged, which you need to stop (JK I love you all and am very happy for all of you!!).
During my Christmas Break I was waking up really early for part of it, so I started watching a slew of daytime talk shows. I forget what the exact issue was that they were discussing on The View, but Whoopi Goldberg stated, "Hate is a learned behavior", and that got me thinking; if hate is a learned behavior, then what is love? If we have to learn how to hate, which I believe we do, then are we born knowing how to love? This also interests me because my mom introduced me to the five love languages years ago, and since first taking the love language test with her, mine have changed. So, how did I "learn" to have a new love language?
Personally, I do believe that we are born knowing how to love. If you have ever spent a lot of time around children, you will notice that they don't care how another child looks, speaks, or dresses, they just want to have fun with them and share their toys, usually. Now, can children be taught to hate at a very young age, sadly yes, but I do not believe that this is natural. One of the favorite parts of my life has been watching one of our foster children go from when he came to us, if he ran into a wall he would just stand and glare at us with arms folded, to if he just brushed the wall he would come running asking for us to kiss his arm. It took a while, but we were thankfully able to teach him how to love again, which I believe it is possible to forget how to love, but I think we begin life knowing how. I think
So mainly, I guess I am asking two questions. What do you believe love is? Do you believe that we are born knowing how to love? How do you think that we can learn new love languages?
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Back on the road
So, I have fallen greatly behind in updating my blog, you shall see why here in a second. To finish out where I left off on my last post:
Christmas was great. It was a pleasure to get to see all my family and such! The time spent in NC was also wonderful. I rang in the New Year with some of my friends from high school down at the ocean front. On January 1st, my first real productive act of the new year was to run a 5K in a suit with my best friend and her sister. It was pretty awesome, and I was only 9 minutes slower than my pr, which I consider awesome having not run one since probably high school (we won't talk about how long ago that was). On January 2nd, I flew back to tour meeting up with the company in Schenectady, NY. We spent a week in Schenectady and since leaving there on January 9th I have been to:
Kingston, Ontario; Erie, PA; Morgantown, WV (where I got to see our old college shop foreman and his wife); Portsmouth, OH; South Bend, IN (where we set our record load out, as we also did when I was on Annie); Wabash, IN (where I met some amazing people!); Knoxville, TN (where I got to see an old friend from high school, who I only knew was there because I accidentally texted him, but was great to see); and am currently sitting in a coffee shop in Colombia, SC waiting to do a show tonight, and then head to Harrisburg, PA for a day off before starting a rough weekend. But yes, overall the life goes well and I still love my job (even if we are in the worst part of our schedule until Mid-February)!
Junto:
An issue that has been huge these past few weeks is Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church, if you can call it that, protesting at the funerals of those killed in the events that took place in Arizona. I don't know of anyone who likes Fred Phelps, and I believe that is because what he and his group do is disgusting, and it is also hypocritical. Having been raised in a protestant household, I can tell you that nothing (maybe an exaggeration, but you get the point) that this group does is biblical. In Matthew 22:37-40 Jesus gives us the two greatest commandments, he says, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.' 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” When you are standing with signs that read, "God Hates Fags" while people are in their deepest time of mourning, how is that loving your neighbor? When you are telling people how much God supposedly hates them (which is in no way, shape, or form supported biblically), how is that showing love? And yet, they continuously insist that they are doing "God's" work. It makes me sick. How would this group feel if when one of their members dies, a crowd gathered to hurl insults at them as they attempt to cope with this loss?
All of that to say, hypocritical people have always been one of my biggest pet peeves. Truthfully, I don't care what you believe, but I want you to own up to it and take credit for it. I hate it that people have skewed ideas about religion, politics, etc because someone claiming to be part of x belief system is giving it a bad name because they are not following any of its tenants. They are claiming to be part of x, but show no sign of having that belief system, as the Bible says, "you shall know them by their fruit". Sadly, most humans will never investigate to see if what this person claims lines up with x belief system, they will just write off that system. The few giving the many a bad name.
I was talking to our new bus driver recently and he was talking about a Christian metal group that he has driven for. He said he doesn't understand how metal and Christianity go together, but that the members of the group are genuine and truly care about others. He mentioned this a few times in conversation. That is what a believer should be, wether of religion, politics, or any number of things. People should say, I may not understand why they believe the way they do, but they are genuine about it. People like those who take a stand and hold to it!
Longest Blog Post Evah!!!
Christmas was great. It was a pleasure to get to see all my family and such! The time spent in NC was also wonderful. I rang in the New Year with some of my friends from high school down at the ocean front. On January 1st, my first real productive act of the new year was to run a 5K in a suit with my best friend and her sister. It was pretty awesome, and I was only 9 minutes slower than my pr, which I consider awesome having not run one since probably high school (we won't talk about how long ago that was). On January 2nd, I flew back to tour meeting up with the company in Schenectady, NY. We spent a week in Schenectady and since leaving there on January 9th I have been to:
Kingston, Ontario; Erie, PA; Morgantown, WV (where I got to see our old college shop foreman and his wife); Portsmouth, OH; South Bend, IN (where we set our record load out, as we also did when I was on Annie); Wabash, IN (where I met some amazing people!); Knoxville, TN (where I got to see an old friend from high school, who I only knew was there because I accidentally texted him, but was great to see); and am currently sitting in a coffee shop in Colombia, SC waiting to do a show tonight, and then head to Harrisburg, PA for a day off before starting a rough weekend. But yes, overall the life goes well and I still love my job (even if we are in the worst part of our schedule until Mid-February)!
Junto:
An issue that has been huge these past few weeks is Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church, if you can call it that, protesting at the funerals of those killed in the events that took place in Arizona. I don't know of anyone who likes Fred Phelps, and I believe that is because what he and his group do is disgusting, and it is also hypocritical. Having been raised in a protestant household, I can tell you that nothing (maybe an exaggeration, but you get the point) that this group does is biblical. In Matthew 22:37-40 Jesus gives us the two greatest commandments, he says, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.' 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” When you are standing with signs that read, "God Hates Fags" while people are in their deepest time of mourning, how is that loving your neighbor? When you are telling people how much God supposedly hates them (which is in no way, shape, or form supported biblically), how is that showing love? And yet, they continuously insist that they are doing "God's" work. It makes me sick. How would this group feel if when one of their members dies, a crowd gathered to hurl insults at them as they attempt to cope with this loss?
All of that to say, hypocritical people have always been one of my biggest pet peeves. Truthfully, I don't care what you believe, but I want you to own up to it and take credit for it. I hate it that people have skewed ideas about religion, politics, etc because someone claiming to be part of x belief system is giving it a bad name because they are not following any of its tenants. They are claiming to be part of x, but show no sign of having that belief system, as the Bible says, "you shall know them by their fruit". Sadly, most humans will never investigate to see if what this person claims lines up with x belief system, they will just write off that system. The few giving the many a bad name.
I was talking to our new bus driver recently and he was talking about a Christian metal group that he has driven for. He said he doesn't understand how metal and Christianity go together, but that the members of the group are genuine and truly care about others. He mentioned this a few times in conversation. That is what a believer should be, wether of religion, politics, or any number of things. People should say, I may not understand why they believe the way they do, but they are genuine about it. People like those who take a stand and hold to it!
Longest Blog Post Evah!!!
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