I've had so many things to blog for the past months but I never blogged them. There isn't really much time to babble online since there are already a lot to babble, I mean to talk, in real life. But that does not mean I don't like and would not blog anymore. Just saying.

This clip from the Joseph movie, in so many ways is a summary of the past months of my life. I hope you find it lovely and wonderful as I did.

Hot Air Balloon

A hot air balloon landed in the Metrobank parking area to fetch me. As soon as I climbed into it, the rainbow ball flew up into the air. Past the city skyline and the setting sun it carried me over oceans and continents. The night sky drew down its curtains of stars as we approached the Northern Americas. I was alone in the rainbow ball but was very happy. It felt so light in the air. I soon grew tired in ooh-ing and ahh-ing over the stars and the lights below me so I decided it's time to turn in.

As I breathed heavily in my sleep, the rainbow ball gently drifted over the warm Pacific. It visited some leviathan friends namely the blue whale. Of course I didn't see any of it. But I just know that for a while the rainbow balloon rested on the blue whale's back until that leviathan squirted water and shot us back to the sky.

Dawnbreak found me dozing in the hot air balloon at the front yard  of our house. I scrambled off the huge basket and shoved the rainbow ball to move and fly away. I gleefully waved as it drifted back to the sky meeting the vanishing stars and the milky morning sky.

I mentioned in my previous post that I've been conjuring wild thoughts of rest. Well, this post is about one.

Rest

Today's the first rest day I ever had from months that seemed years. I don't exactly know when was the last time I woke up past ten in the morning but today is the day after a very long time. And this is just so real. Not some wild thoughts of rest that I've conjured.

I've kinda forgotten for the past months how light it felt to wake up without a schedule. Everything just seemed so strange. I ate, cleaned some, slept, cleaned some, ate again and slept. I felt like I was in a different world. Maybe.

Firebird

Firebird is not a favorite character of mine but I like her anyway. It's probably because we are similar in some ways and I could relate to her character and her struggles. I found and have proven that we're both willful, proud and impatient. It's not a good example of character but primarily that's where we both struggle. Well, she at least in the fiction world and I, in the non-fiction world.

Willfulness, pride and impatience. This is going to be a lifelong war until it's time to come Home.

Why Owl City

Because Owl City songs makes me happy, light and bouncy.

It has been quite a while since I've been fascinated by Owl City music. I was never a fan of Electronica/Techno Pop due to my classical background in music but Owl City changed that. It wasn't just music that drew me to Owl City music but the clever rhyming and message of his songs. Oh yeah, Owl City is just a one-man act, if you don't know yet, by Adam Young.

Add to the fact the unique story of Adam Young's rise in the music industry despite knowing nothing of it. I recently came across a half-year old post in Plugged In Online about the song Fireflies which made me smile deeply.

"I can remember sleeping out on a dock on the edge of this lake and looking up at the sky. There was a meteor shower that night. I remember thinking, What a cool idea of shooting stars being fireflies, and trying to translate that into music. That’s what spurred it on."

In a world where chart-topping tracks often trade in edgy or deliberately controversial imagery, "Fireflies" is an amazingly unique expression of one young artist’s wide-eyed wonder at the world. John Keats would be proud. (read full article in Plugged In Online)

It's just uplifting to know that God chooses the unlikely people to make a difference even in the most unlikely places.

Down from the door where I began

Down from the door where I began I lost track of the time when I missed writing in this blog. I lost my quill somewhere along the way because of so much excitement in the hills yonder.

So many interesting things have happened in January and are happening in February as well. I will update as soon as I can. Though I am not sure what my SOON means. :)

If My Heart Was A House You'd Be Home

I first heard this line from a cheesy quote sent through text. Though it sounds cheesy, there's much sweetness in it. And it got even meaningfully sweet when I found a song of the same title by Owl City.

It's a really beautiful and cool song--all of Owl City's songs are cleverly written if you must know.

You're the sky that I fell through

And I remember the view

Whenever I'm holding you

The sun hung from a string

Looking down on the world as it warms over everything

Chills run down my spine

As our fingers entwine

And your sighs harmonize with mine

Unmistakably

I can still feel your heart beat fast when you dance with me

We got older and I should've known (Do you feel alive?)

That I'd feel colder when I walk alone (Oh, but you'll survive)

So I may as well ditch my dismay

Bombs away, bombs away

Circle me and the needle moves gracefully

Back and forth

If my heart was a compass you'd be north

Risk it all cause I'll catch you when you fall

Wherever you go

If my heart was a house you'd be home

It makes me smile because you said it best

I would clearly feel blessed if the sun rose up from the west

Flower balm perfume, all my clothes smell like you

Cause your favorite shade is navy blue

I walk slowly when I'm on my own (Do you feel alive?)

Yeah, but frankly I still feel alone (Oh, but you'll survive)

So I may as well ditch my dismay

Bombs away, bombs away

Circle me and the needle moves gracefully

Back and forth

If my heart was a compass you'd be north

Risk it all cause I'll catch you when you fall

Wherever you go

If my heart was a house you'd be home

If my heart was a house you'd be home