the space for coincidence

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this week has been incredible, but reaaally, this YEAR has been incredible. Because a year ago rach and i took an adventure down to college perk and i performed, and we kinda decided to start taking advantage of every oppurtunity; to get out and do the things we wanna do simply because we could! so i've done that... this whole year, and it's been amazing. I know this sort of thing should be posted on new years or something, but hey why not celebrate on thanksgiving break? when we dont have school to worry about for a few days and we're going to eat more food than we thought humanly possible... yeah there's too much to give thanks for.

a man came into pepperjacks and we had christmas music playing on the radio and the man knew EVERY word to the songs that came on.. i'm talkin the chipmunks christmas song and some other 80's jam, man was singin like he was in the shower! I loved it.

if you're lookin for a thought-provoking movie, go see I Heart Huckabees. Seeing that yesterday by pure coincidence at the charles street movie theatre was perfect. It's all about the two sides of existentialism, and it cleared up a lot of things i never understood about existentialism... If i may start to take this post a little deeper, i felt like the existential mindsets aren't really that different from christianity, like we're all connected. In the movie they did these exercises where they were supposed to sit and clear their minds, to just relax and escape the crazy world; this is kind of like people praying to god to feel better, its an escape from the world.

Then theres two sides of existentialism.. one is everything is meaningless.. and the other one is everything is connected and maraculous. so like in the bible theres the book of ecclesiastes which says how meaningless everything is, and then all these miracles happening with jesus.

I'm not saying its the same thing... and maybe its "existential" to say, but i just feel like everything is CONNECTED, theres always some underlying similar theme or connection that can be found (along with a bunch of differences to separate people/ideas/religions), and depending on what you're looking for, you're bound to come across anything. it's all quite fascinating. if all that existential stuff freaks you out, atleast take from it what i did a year ago:

you're in control, make your life what you want it to be.




peace, and happy thanks giving, and be sure to listen to my music.

jo