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The Giving of Thanks
I missed Thanksgiving. I’m in Chile, and they don’t celebrate it here. Yesterday my host mom pulled the Christmas tree out of storage and it makes me sad because it reminds me of the Thanksgiving shaped void in my life right now.
Thanksgiving is my second favorite holiday next to Christmas and my birthday (which tie for first). I love the amazing delicious beautiful food that I’m allowed to gorge myself on once a year and not feel bad about my life choices. I love that my family goes around the table and says what we’re thankful for. I love the story behind the holiday of two races coming together and celebrating their friendship and the plentiful harvest. I love that once a year, all over the country, no matter how terrible a person’s life is or how pessimistic someone is, they have a reason to think of the things and people that make their life wonderful and express that to their loved ones. I love that families who are broken can set aside their differences for just a little bit, eat an amazing meal together, and say something they are thankful for about one another. I love that when you normally wouldn’t express this to someone, you have the excuse of a holiday to tell them just how much you love someone and are thankful for them. I love that we have a once a year reminder to thank God for blessing us so abundantly and we remember all the things in our lives that are worth being thankful about. I just really love Thanksgiving a lot!
I wish I was in the States right now. I’m missing it by nine days!
But on the bright side, I can still be thankful even from 5000 miles away from home. Obviously.
I’m thankful for my family. My mom and dad are wonderful and they’ve taught me so much. They’ve stuck together through the good and the bad and they’ve set an amazing example for what it means to love unconditionally. Rachel has a beautiful and fun personality. It’s been wonderful growing up with someone so close in age and to know I will always have someone to talk to and turn to. Lucas is funny and has a kind heart. He is a protector and I know he’ll always have my back. Jonathan is so creative and affectionate. He’s really sweet and he loves to love by spending time with his family. Even though we’ve all had our differences and we get fed up with each other sometimes, I know that in the end family is forever and we’ll always love each other.
I’m thankful for Zach. He has a beautiful heart and a creative mind. He loves God and strives to honor Him. He is loving and thoughtful and sweet and I kind of really love him. 🙂 I’m so blessed to know him and to have dated him for the past year.
I’m thankful for my friends. Elaine, Kayla, Lauren, Caroline, Xanda, DJ, Tris, David, Jihoon, Sodam, etc. They are all beautiful people who I love dearly. They encourage me, challenge me to be a better person, and make me laugh. I’m so blessed to know every one of you.
I’m thankful for Grove City College, for the opportunity I’ve been given to receive such an excellent education, and the amazing friends I’ve made here.
I’m thankful for Chile and for the experiences I’ve had and the memories I’ve made and for the people I’ve met. I’m especially thankful for my host family, Rosy and Manuel, for caring for me and inviting me into their home and family for four months.
I’m thankful for music, and the beauty of nature, and everything else I love that I don’t have time to talk about right now.
Last but definitely not least, I’m thankful for God because all of these other things I’m thankful for are gifts from him. Even though I don’t deserve it I’ve been forgiven, saved, blessed abundantly, and loved unendingly by the creator and sustainer of the universe and that is truly amazing.
Okay so I know I’m posting this a day after Thanksgiving but that’s okay because we can be thankful every day of the year!
Also, I will be posting about Machu Picchu and other adventures very very soon I promise!
Peace!
beggars all – White Walls
beggars all has taken a new direction musically, and it’s awesome. Here is Zach’s newest single, White Walls.
Give it a listen on soundcloud and download it from bandcamp or noisetrade. It’s free, but if you’re feeling generous, donations are welcome.
https://soundcloud.com/beggars_all/white-walls
Anchor and Braille – New Music
Anchor and Braille is the solo project of Anberlin’s lead singer Stephen Christian. I’m falling in love with these two new songs.
Give it a listen on Spotify.
Sir Sly – Where I’m Going
an atmospheric and moody electronic pop song off of Sir Sly’s recently released album, You Haunt Me. Listen to the full album here
Beggars All | beggars all
beggars all ::Stream
https://soundcloud.com/beggars_all/sets/beggars-all
Hello friends!
The EP is now available for streaming! Give it a listen and be amazed.
Stay tuned for the download link at midnight tonight! (9/5/2015, 12:00am)
Peace!
beggars all – Monsters
https://soundcloud.com/beggars_all/monsters
Hello Friends,
I have exciting news! Monsters is the first song to be released off the upcoming EP by beggars all. Give it a listen cause it’s amazing! The artist is Zach Nafziger. He’s super talented. I really love this song because he played it for me on the guitar when he first started writing it. I knew it was going to be good even from the very beginning and it just kept getting better! I am so incredibly excited that it is finally released for the world to listen and be amazed.
Here are some of the first responses (that I have knowledge of that is) to Monsters:
“That’s amazing it sounds like something I’d listen to on Spotify!” – David
“It also sounds weirdly British! I like it!” – also David
“Make sure and tell him that I think it’s really good!” – basically everyone
“Woah! Your boyfriend wrote this?!? Like he sings it and does all the instruments and stuff!?! That’s so cool!”
“Woooow!! I really like it.”
“he has a good voice. and i liked the beat (not just sayn that cause you’re my friend haha).” – my friend, Elaine, on facebook messenger.
“yayyyyyy!!!! Monsters!!” – me. It’s one of my favorites off of the EP and I may or may not have squealed and danced a happy dance in front of literally everyone when I saw that Zach released it.
Get excited for the upcoming EP cause it’s going to be EPic. and Also go here to like the beggars all facebook page and get updates regarding production and the release date.
Thanks!
~debs
Twenty One Pilots – Guns for Hands
I’m feeling nostalgic of when I saw these guys in concert so I just now spent almost an hour watching their music videos.
Horcón and those pesky silent “H’s”
Horcón is pronounced, “Orcone,” and so that is how I spelled it when Rossy told me where we were going. It wasn’t until we arrived and I saw the name written on a sign that I realized my mistake. It’s a legitimate mistake in my defense! I’m a horrible speller even in English, let alone in Spanish with silent letters.
Anyways, Rossy, Manuel, and Bastial (my host…cousin?) ate at a seafood restaurant called El Ancla (The Anchor). I don’t typically like seafood, but this was quite good! I also tried a beer and didn’t like it. A cat walked across the roof next door and she looked just like my cat at home!
The ocean was lovely, as always. It was very peaceful and the air smelled like salt.
I love everything about this picture. The excellence of it was an accident because all I thought at the time was “Oh my gosh that dog is so cute imma snap a picture of it.” But when I looked at it again on my laptop later that night, I realized that it was better than I could have hoped. There is a freakin adorable dog, barefoot people, a cute hand-holding couple, CONVERSE, and babies. Yeah. I captured like five perfect moments in one picture.
Rossy asked me if I wanted one and I said sure. The lady sat me down on a tiny chair and braided a trenza into my hair. She pulled out the scissors and I got worried but turns out she was just cutting the ends of the strings and not my hair thank God. Then she used a lighter to burn the ends of the strings and that made me nervous, especially when I started smelling burning hair… But in the end, I now have a thing in my hair and it looks pretty.
The streets are so very narrow! The buildings are old but colourful and they all have unique personalities. Cars going both ways on a one lane street squeeze precariously past each other with a earth wall on one side and parked cars and a steep drop to the beach on the other. The people walk weaving through the cars and not really caring if they almost get run into. Dogs run through the traffic, barking at the cars and begging for food and attention.
Horcón is crazy, crowded, and colourful.
Rossy pulled me over to somewhere and told me to take pictures of the fishing boats so I did.
Also my hair looks randomly auburn in this photo! I’ve always wanted red hair!
Two hippies playing guitar and the recorder serenade a baby and her parents and a random dog on the beach. Rossy and I listened for a little bit and as we walked away, Rossy turns and says/mimes to me, “Those two, they drink and they smoke weed!” I laughed. Yeah probably but they sure play beautiful music.
I love how the guitarist has a musical note on his shoulder.
Silhouettes by the ocean make for a perfect picture.
So that was my adventure for the day. Read The things which cannot be photographed to hear more about the parts of my day that I didn’t photograph.
Aesthetic Eclecticism 