Hello World.
Hello world. No, this isn’t my first post, but it has been a while. In the past few months I’ve been trying to balance the life of being a father, husband, student, and co-worker. I distinctly pulled back from commitments so I could regather my focus. I had been burning the candle on both ends, recording and co-hosting a weekly radio show on top of the grinding mix.
Everything culminated on May 29th when my wife, two small children, and I were in a head-on collision at full speed with an SUV on a highway near our home. Amazingly, we were walked away from our burning car with no serious injuries! It took several weeks to fully recover physically and emotionally from the “fire crash,” as my daughter calls it.
Burgeoning with the accident, I have been working on forming a non-profit organization with a friend of mine. It’s called Quilts for Orphans, and the name explains what our goal is. We’re collecting donations (handmade quilts, knitted and crocheted items) to bring warmth and comfort to poverty-stricken, homeless or orphaned children. Forming projects to help focus our support-base, each project will go towards an organization or orphanage that we have a professional relationship with. We’ll be announcing our second project in the coming week, with specific goals that we are aiming to achieve. Do you quilt, knit or crochet?
Even with the water splashing over the edge, Puddlegum has been on my mind. I’m entering my last year at the University, and considering the options of graduate school. I’ve been studying ‘new media’ quite a bit and find myself composing articles in my head. It’s time that I put my ideas to pen… again.
Here’s a beautiful music video for Fire of Birds, by DM Stith: