Possibly the most important day if my life

https://youtu.be/MVo00jRFbrA

As stressful year dwindles down to an end I was fortunate enough to have been able to take one last trek around Kansas City before I go back home. KCMO is one of the most peaceful places that I have been to. It is full of quirky places with creative spaces and vibrant culture. Nature seems to defiantly be happy in the native lands of Missouri.

Somewhere in the woods

This video was takin a couple of months ago, probably around February. My partner in crime and I decided to take the new nikon out for an adventure. We went trail hiking and stumbled upon this little tin "thing" not sure what it was once used for but the graffiti on it was pretty sick. In the video you will see my friend try and make a jump to a table that was in the river. (it was a lot further than it looked.)

"if you want adventure, take a step outside."

The trails: https://youtu.be/GlVdSWorq2k

gardens part 1

 I went to the Botanical gardens over the past weekend to take pictures and i also squeezed in a little video. Although the flowers have not yet sprung it was still nice to get out for a little adventure.

Little video clip: https://youtu.be/lHPyb5ukflw

Family Tree

Words become unspoken

Memories are left to be broken

Distance separate’s you from me

And time gets in the way of everything

My emotions wilt like a willow

1 and 2 don’t add up

discrepancy, I’ve had enough

I dust off my shoulders, rolling off are big boulders

Forgiveness seeps down into my core

There use to be four but now there’s three

Tell me what happened to our family tree

Arguments turn into sudden pleas

as the hands around me tighten and squeeze

Corrupt Government

In this world we can not describe how we feel

Every emotion comes with a price that we can not peal

The economy goes up,

The government gets stronger

And these people can’t stand it any longer.

Everybody is trying to get that green

Weather it’s weed or money from a tree

This country is hypocritical

We are not free

Look out of the window and tell me what you see?

People on the streets struggling to make ends meat

Look at these kids without shoes on their feet

They’ve got blisters from the heat.

"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God; not by works, so that no one can boast." Ephesians 2:8-9

Recently I have been struggling to "redeem" myself through my own personal "works" and each time I have failed because I can't do it on my own.  I know deep down that there is no use in striving to redeem myself on my own terms and yet I continue to do it. Each time I fail, it reminds me of what Paul says about having a thorn in his flesh, a messenger of satan. Paul pleaded three time for God to take it away, and each time God replied "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. " So each time I fail I remember Paul and I remember what God says to him because that is exactly what He is saying to me...Be still and know that I Am God.

Air (a short response)

I am fascinated with the way AIR consumes volumes

breathing life into emptiness

consumption and contemplation can be seen where air is carried

through.

The production of air produces oxygen, 

which then breeds life into the lungs of humans. 

inevitably producing thought. 

Nature

The simplicity of nature is forever thought provoking. Nature has a way of making the most simplistic things turn into something that is complicated.

I recently got a camera for Christmas, a Nikon d33 to be exact, and I can honestly say that it has made my views on the beauty of nature change so drastically that if I could take a picture of everything that I saw, I would. I encourage everyone reading this to take time out if their day and really take in what you see.

The Flower

Before a flower becomes a flower

it must start out as a seed.

like all living things

it has wants and needs.

the presence of water is vital to sustaining its present being

as the water seeps down into every crack, drenching life into a dried up corps

the seed has one of two choices,

it can absorb what it has been given

or it can reject life

and be stricken to a life of well hidden meanings

like the flower

we have the option to choose life or death

with every breath that we breathe in

we fill the masses of empty spaces

like air filling up volumes

consumption of self pity and denial

will eat at the core until it becomes bile

all the while

forgetting that we are human.

as the light consumes the dark

careless tears stream down the face of a body that is as empty as a corps left to dry.