White River Rafting. Story of my lifffeeeeeeeeeeee.

Graduation... you weren't lying when you told me "time flies chels, hold onto your childhood while you can". But you just can't teach a kid that.. They have to learn themselves... the hard way. So here I am. Two time graduate. Once from high school, once from community college. I have 3 months in front of me to earn as much money as I can for school and to have as much fun as I can with friends... some of which I may never see again. I know this is supposed to be a time of excitement. But I'm still in pre-shock mode. It hasn't hit home. Truth is.... I don't quite want it too.


For everyone who came to my party. Thank you :) That day was wonderful. Also, I promise I'm working on those thank you cards :)

To get off the cliche topic of graduation let's move on to something I'd much rather talk about :) Books. Oh and music.

I just got done reading Scared by Tom Davis. I had been taking a break from fiction, because sometimes I can't stand it. I feel like I'm living through book characters, and not taking the time to make my life book-worthy. This book was different. Something inside of me told me to pick this one off the shelf, and just standing there I read 30 pages. Next thing you know I'm passing 70 and onto 150. I tell people I read to experience things that I couldn't experience everyday otherwise. This book took me to Africa with an agnostic who was a deadbeat, ready to take pictures of anything that would make him money to hopefully salvage his marriage... and well his life. Through the book you are taken on a riveting path that fully exposes (in the best manner a book can) the truth of AIDS and orphans in Africa. Trust me... when people say there's a book about Africa/Aids/Orphans AND it's fiction.... I usually run away. This  one had me hooked. I can't really explain the story other that painful truth... and then I found out that it was based off a true story. Tricky fiction. Check it out. :) I'm reading the second Priceless and so far I'm equally impressed.

Oh Oh oh oh... back to my title. I went white river rafting :)
Super fun. I can't wait to do it again. I only almost fell out once.. but that was enough for me. It was freezing outside. Overcast and windy. Nonetheless it was amazing to experience the place we have with the river. We are above it... but God is still the master of it.. the orchestrator. I can't explain the feelings of calm and terror I had... but mostly trust. I just imagine God's breath moving the river along. Beautiful.