odds and ends from the deep

the deep south, that is.

so many things have happened during the past month...and i continue to wonder why i feel the need to write things on a blog on the internet. it's not very safe. yes, it is current proof that i do exist...however, do people really need to read about your life? why are we compelled to do this? does it help us convince ourselves that, in this day and age of complete and overwhelming media and perhaps a feeling of smallness in such a big world that's closing in around us, we need to make sure to touch others, that someone out there is listening, because life seems so big we neglect to make connections with the physical people around us? who knows.

i have a new article in the jackson free press, which i think turned out really well. they cut it down from how i originally wrote it and i liked it better.

i have a CD review on the magic numbers to write and another story on a local band, both due by wednesday. should be pretty easy.

for some reason, i'm going blank with the CD review. i am going to read some to give myself a general idea how i should set it up.

from time to time, you reach a point in your life where you have to make important decisions about where the journey is going to take you...or if you will follow its lead. i call it my 'watershed' point - after an indigo girls song of the same name:

"up on the watershed/standing at the fork in the road/you can stand there and agonize/'till your agony's your heaviest load/you'll never fly as the crow flies/get used to a country mile/when you're learning to face/the path at your pace/every choice is worth your while."

so here i sit in jackson, mississippi, trying to figure out where my life highway is going to take me. is it back home? to another city? where? i've got to be out of my apartment at the end of august---which is good and not good. the price is good, the issues i've had here, not good. and then there are other things to consider. however that may be, i have faith that the Lord will continue to give me hints about where i should go and what decisions need to be made.

ever since i moved here almost 3 years ago, things began to fall into place. it was a domino effect that i had no control over, both frustrating and mostly awe-inspiring. for the first time in my life i knew i was in the right place.

*sigh* we'll see what happens! i will continue to trust Him and know that the plan for my life is in His hands...i will follow where it leads and accept what i have to do to get there and make it happen.