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Day 512...Year 2

One of my life long friends wrote the following post on FB today: I revisited some old music today, and found that while I didn't really connect with it a few decades ago, now I completely get it and actually crave it. It occurred to me at a change in musical preference most definitely indicates a change in oneself.. Whether it is actual spiritual, mental or emotional growth, or just parallel change in any of those realms. I am absolutely not the same person I was then, or even 5 years ago. To the opposite effect, music i cherished back then doesn't move me the way it did. Just personal reflections today... It does make me excited to always seek out new music, because there is no telling what will strike a chord with me in the future! :) It really struck a chord in me and made me take stock of my own musical tastes and feelings and how they evolved over the years... I love all kinds of music but no matter what age I am, I will always have a heart for Contemporary Christ...

Day 399...Year 2

Inspiration can come from anywhere... The wind, the trees, the ocean or the sky... In any case it comes from the world around you... As I sit here trying to decide what to write I realize that I no longer have a challenge set for myself to blog everyday, yet I continue to do so... Had you asked me 13 months ago, if I thought I would have made it, I would have doubted myself but now I almost feel empty if I even consider not writing... When I was in Junior High I fell in love with writing short stories about the New Kids on the Block... I created mini romances about them and my friends and I... I had notebooks filled and then one day, they were gone... I listened to others, who had told me that I was spending too much time writing and in a sign of commitment to this group I tore up the notebooks and burned them... From then on, writing became hard... The stories and words just didn't flow... I always had a dream of becoming a writer, of having others read my writing, yet on th...