http://easternbirds.covblogs.com/ the whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing. isaiah 14:7 en-us twilliams@covenant.edu 2006-07-25T19:07:40-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://easternbirds.covblogs.com/archives/009572.html i have a new blog that is not quite the challenge that this one has been. please visit it! http://easternbirds.blogspot.com... 9572@http://easternbirds.covblogs.com/ 2006-07-25T19:07:40-05:00 http://easternbirds.covblogs.com/archives/009569.html 9569@http://easternbirds.covblogs.com/ 2006-07-25T11:54:30-05:00 http://easternbirds.covblogs.com/archives/009560.html why i am excited about next weekend in chicago... July 29 1:00 Hot Machines 1:30 Chin Up Chin Up 2:00 Man Man 2:35 Band of Horses 3:30 Mountain Goats 4:20 Destroyer 5:10 Art Brut 6:10 Ted Leo 7:10 The Futureheads... 9560@http://easternbirds.covblogs.com/ 2006-07-24T16:58:22-05:00 http://easternbirds.covblogs.com/archives/009368.html i am experiencing many growing pains. this week i moved out of the yellow house... the lovely home belonging to the Meiners, that has been my home for the past year. Whenever big changes occur, I start to feel very... 9368@http://easternbirds.covblogs.com/ 2006-07-01T10:33:09-05:00 http://easternbirds.covblogs.com/archives/009283.html the refreshment of returning from a trip white bedrooms that smell like fresh laundry not-harsh warm summer mornings that make birds sing coffee... ok that's everyday running into friends out for a jog and stopping to say hi (suzanne) seeing... 9283@http://easternbirds.covblogs.com/ 2006-06-21T10:14:25-05:00 http://easternbirds.covblogs.com/archives/009105.html i don't have any fancy words for it! i'm engaged to Stephen Beck!! check out his blog for pictures from our engagement party last night, at my 'rents. http://j38.net/beck... 9105@http://easternbirds.covblogs.com/ 2006-06-01T10:46:41-05:00 http://easternbirds.covblogs.com/archives/009046.html I saw pinback in concert and fulfilled a dream. So good. Soo soo gooood. It was an older crowd, we sat in the balcony of the roxy sipping beer, the music melted my ears AND my heart. I guess those... 9046@http://easternbirds.covblogs.com/ 2006-05-23T13:21:57-05:00 http://easternbirds.covblogs.com/archives/008912.html this morning while it rained, i wrote and wrote and scribbled and scratched until a poem came out of the jumble of words and thoughts. the same old words to live is christ became my mercy to die is gain.... 8912@http://easternbirds.covblogs.com/ 2006-05-10T11:51:51-05:00 http://easternbirds.covblogs.com/archives/008786.html My sister sent me this quote last week. "Anxiety and Fear are what we know best in this fantastic century of ours. Wars and rumors of wars. From civilization itself to what seemed the most unalterable values of the past,... 8786@http://easternbirds.covblogs.com/ 2006-04-28T15:19:06-05:00 http://easternbirds.covblogs.com/archives/008760.html ... only a handful of posts ago i was commenting on the snow-layers on cars driving by in st. elmo. since then the season has changed from winter to the poking buds of early spring, and again from early spring... 8760@http://easternbirds.covblogs.com/ 2006-04-26T11:57:42-05:00 http://easternbirds.covblogs.com/archives/008597.html It is said that once while Brahms was at a dinner party, the hostess turned to her honored guest, and said, "Maestro Brahms, are you enjoying yourself?" and he responded, "Yes madam, that is all that I am enjoying."... 8597@http://easternbirds.covblogs.com/ 2006-04-11T10:41:07-05:00 http://easternbirds.covblogs.com/archives/008583.html the purpose of literature is to better enjoy life, or to better endure it. -samuel johnson... 8583@http://easternbirds.covblogs.com/ 2006-04-10T12:10:03-05:00 http://easternbirds.covblogs.com/archives/008360.html Sometimes a light surprises, The Christian while he sings It is the Lord who rises, With healing in His wings When comforts are declining, He grants the soul again A season of clear shining, To cheer it after the rain... 8360@http://easternbirds.covblogs.com/ 2006-03-20T10:59:03-05:00 http://easternbirds.covblogs.com/archives/008282.html something my friend Lydia once said: "Run mad as often as you please, but do not faint." Here is a verse for kings: "Now brothers I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you... 8282@http://easternbirds.covblogs.com/ 2006-03-10T11:29:09-05:00 http://easternbirds.covblogs.com/archives/008122.html that was something a covenant friend used to say, pertaining to present action. "hello, my name is walking through the beads." "hello, my name is heating up some water." "hello, my name is drinking tea." Weird. Yes. I know. Sometimes... 8122@http://easternbirds.covblogs.com/ 2006-02-23T13:08:53-05:00