Everyone always does Top 10 or Top 5…Well, I’m not everyone. The top 4 posts for the month: Love Song For A Conference – sharing my excitement at attending Jon Acuff’s second Quitter conference Vinyl Fever – Part of Michelle Woodman’s Blog Carnival, a fun remembrance (and lively conversation) of my first music purchase Adoption Found Us – A very awkward video of my eyes following a fly around the room while Mark and I share our adoption story What Can I Do? – The culmination of the seven-part “This is NOT ok” series about the Global Orphan Crisis. Thanks for […]

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Today, I’m honored to be trading posts with Ryan A. Weaver on his blog. Check out my post about how I crashed and burned and tried to reinvent myself here. The post below is from Ryan.  Ryan is… a loser, a lover, a leader with 8 years of youth ministry experience.  It is his desire that people would see Jesus through his leadership.  Ryan blogs devotional thoughts as well as posts relating to adoption, porn & sexuality and other random things at www.ryanaweaver.com.  Follow him on Twitter @ryanaweaver.   This is not a rant about religion. This is just a reminder […]

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Today I’m participating in a Blog Carnival about first music memories. Don’t miss the other amazing contributors who shared their own memories linked at Michelle Woodman’s blog.  Big thanks for Michelle for such a fun and inspiring topic!   Once upon a time, people could buy records at the grocery store. Records, you know?  Those big, flat, black platters made of hard vinyl?  The old fashioned iPod? Music was different then.   I strain on my tippy-toes, arms stretched to reach the back of bin.  I carefully flip from one album to the next. Andy Williams oozes through the PA at […]

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  Some days the words flow like a river.  Other days…the riverbed is dry. Today?  Parched.   So, here’s your chance–it’s DeLurking Day at River Of Thoughts.  Y’all know a lot about me by now…Leave a comment and introduce yourself!  

Lena and I had tickets to Blast! last night. I have to admit, I didn’t have great expectations. I was wrong. Wow. The longer the show went on, the deeper it drew me into speechless wonder, captivated by the creativity of the sensory experience. There was no story. There were no lines. I sat enraptured for a full two hours…even by the informal intermission jam session played on a garbage can and four barstools. Not only was the music perfectly played, but it was visually stunning…the color, the motion, the flowing precision of each movement. The most amazing part, though, […]

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