Music....

Inspires my soul.

Check these songs out.

Listen to them.

Love them.

I do.

And so many millions of others.

 

Well, there you go.

Hope you're all having an enjoyable last few days of summer!

Sincerely,

Kaitlin R.

La de da...

In less than twelve hours I leave on an adventure with some of my bestest friends. The Drum Majors, a soon-to-be Drum Major, and I are going to a Drum Major leadership camp in California!

It will be epic, and I am very excited! :)

Anyways, on another note, I started this new book recently called The Help. It's a book about two African American maids in the early sixties in Jackson, Mississippi and how they come to meet a white woman who wants to tell their stories. What it's like to work for whites in such times. It's excellent and I highly recommend it!

One of many things I love about reading a new book is the feeling of anticipation. How I don't know whats going to happen but I feel it's something good. The mystery is astounding. I love how books take me in and take me away. How all I have to do is sit on my bed eating Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and I'm down in Jackson Mississippi rooting for people who didn't exist, but for an idea that did. An idea of freedom, of fairness.

How glorious it truly is! How freeing to read words on a page that turn out to be so much more than just words. How wonderful it is for a teenaged girl in Utah to travel the world and have adventures from her living room.

I thank my Heavenly Father for inspiring words! Not just for the fantastic books of Fiction and fantasy. Not just for the histories and biographies. But for the best words. His words. The greatest words I'll ever know. :)

Sincerely,
Kaitlin R.

If music be the food of love, play on...

There comes a moment in everyone's life when they encounter something so absolutely incredible, so mind bogglingly nerdy, so unbelievably fantastic that they cannot contain their joy and energy when it closes in upon them.

For me the "it" I'm referring to is less than two weeks away.

It is going to be utterly remarkable.

It is going to pass far to quickly.

It is going to bring triumphs and joys and sorrow and sore muscles.

It is Marching Band.

Ahhhhh! Glorious thing! I know, I know, it's so nerdy and weird and I suppose unhealthy that I love it this much...but if I could just convey to you how incredible it is, how much it's changed me, how fun and joyous it is...if I could just write a tenth of what it means to me then I believe you would understand.

It's one of those things you have to experience to get the full effect...but I love it and I am so flipping excited for the season to start!

Well, I'm off. Have pleasant dreams and grateful hearts!

Sincerely,
Kaitlin R.