Month: February 2018

Ah, so my goal of writing in this blog is certainly not happening. It is already February…11

Yesterday I turned 53. Still not really feeling old, but the reality is, gravity is more present now than it has been in the past!

I guess this is the time in life when I have to balance my relaxation and friend/family time with my to-do list of projects and stuff I want to get done.

Over the last weekend I spent a LOT of time in my studio fooling around with Logic X Pro and recording all kinds of things. I got some really good tracks down and the beginnings of a lot of songs. Once complete recording of a total jam I did on guitar. I had drums backing me up, and then added bass (and vocal … though I took that out…eeek, I still need to work on vocals!) and it is very cool.

“In a Special Time”

I could probably go with just instrumentals and jazzy things most of the time. Coming up with the song form and any lyrics is not nearly as much fun as finding really cool riffs and bass lines to jam over! Totally fun though.

This is the kind of thing I wish I could do a lot more of…just open ended jamming like that. I need to schedule that in more into my week.

Speaking of which, I need to plan my week right now.

Watching the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea as well….very cool stuff.

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Mark K.

Yesterday I spent the day at Faith at a “Men without Regrets” conference. It was pretty good.

There were three presentations that really struck me:

• One person presented on race. That there really is only one race (the human race). But we cannot be color blinded because color is part of the diversity that God created…part of our individual identity.
• Another presentation told the story of a plaster, having moved recently to Hawaii, ended up in a diner at 3 am while a number of prostitutes came in. One of them said it was her birthday the next day. The pastor decided to wrk with the diner and throw her a party the next morning. What kind of church would throw a birthday party for a prostitute at 3 am? The diner owner was amazed. We should scribe to be a church known for its love, not known for what it is against.
• Finally, the last energetic session looked at the story of the last supper in the Upper Room. The speaker’s wife (Jewish) made note that the basic of water to wash feet was at the door and that each of the disciples ignored it. This was a test, and Jesus pretty much shamed everyone there while he was demonstrating that the Son of Man had come as a servant.

The whole event was really cool.

I met a cool pastor for Ellsworth named Kevin. I’ll have to follow up with him.

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Mark K.