Song of the Week - Swimming in the Flood

I don't write on my blog as much as I have been wanting to lately. Mostly because life has hit me (in a good way) these past 6 months with a lot more responsibilities and tasks. I feel like I get no downtime... I'm constantly on the go - weekend to weekend. As a short timeline, I road-tripped from Portland to SLC with Joshua, visited my family in Utah, drove to AZ with Misty, went to Canada for a week, came home and started school and work, went to Vermont and New York for 4 days for a wedding and tour of Dan's college, Dan came to AZ, I went to Portland with Clover, and now this is my first weekend really alone, HOME, just me and the Clove.

WOW.

I am seriously exhausted and my suitcase has constantly been full. On the days I'm not traveling, I'm at school for 5-6 hours, work for 5 hours, then the dog park with Clover for a couple hours. Haven't had much time to do the things that I love to do - like cook, listen to music, cuddle with my little girl, walking, etc. So this weekend I did all of those things and loved it :)

I got the new Passion Pit album a couple weeks ago, and as soon as I heard this song I knew it would be a song that represented a period of time in my life. I look back on each little segment of my life and can think of a song that really put into words how I was feeling. This song seems to be that for me at the current moment. Because when life decides to flood down on you, you can either sink or swim. I've been in a blender of new emotions, life experiences and settings in the past 6 months. I have been through a few treacherous floods before, but when it's a flood of all good things that carve out a new path in life, what a beautiful thing that is.

Passion Pit
Swimming in the Flood
"Manners," 2009
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My eyes have once again been proven wrong
Your clouds, your blanket and my pity song
Hovering on your front lawn
Carry on until it's gone

What can I do?
The river's overrun
We're swimming in a flood, you know?
I thought I felt your touch
But the water's rising up

Then I lie naked in a rampage
In the flesh, face to face with the onset
I forget everything that's ever made me
Rise again
Now slowly leave my memory

What can I do?
The river's overrun
We're swimming in a flood, you know?
I thought I felt your touch
But the water's rising up
Now all my lovers raise their cups

What can I do?
The river's overrun
We're swimming in a flood, you know?
I thought I felt your touch
But the water's rising up
Now all my lovers raise their cups

Song of the Week - Desert Sunrise

Desert Sunrise
Brett Dennen

Living in Arizona after Portland has been quite the adjustment. I feel like a new person after this summer and have so few words to express what that means. But for now, I wake up everyday... sun rising onto the desert... Clover giving me kisses - ready to start the day. It's a strange place, but I'm attempting to fall in love with it all over again... though it's taking longer than I thought it would. Today I'm making a commitment to finding the simple beauties of the place I am in, and the second time around it's going to mean something completely different, but it could possibly be equally as delicious as the first.

Here's to you, arizona.

The desert landscape that helped me discover a part of myself that needed to be found.

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~~A desert sunrise, you warm my soul~~
Painting me in shades of clay
Covering me whole
Oh, I'm a lizard
Sunbathing in
Your radiance
Oh I'm crawling out of hiding
So sweet so sweet you are
If I could only have a taste
Wrap my lips around your flavor
Just because you are
Just because you are
So beautiful

I've been waiting all this life in the company of one
And I know I am young, but I don't want to be alone
If you could only just consider the two of us
And I know darling I could be so good to you

I See you rising on the horizon
Bringing light into the day
And I'm coasting on your rays
When I awoke you spoke through the midst of a mystic bliss
Casting shadows on all my dismal yesterdays
Do you remember that you told me darling that I was so real
I tell you all my tears for you are real
We'll cross that bridge again someday
I know we will
I hope we will

Desert sunset a lullaby
If I could give it all to you
If you'd only let me try
Sing so sweetly
It's my only wish
Music drips from your lips like sweet sips of a summers kiss
Summer raindrops precious tongues twist

I've been waiting all this life in the company of one
And I know I am young, but I don't want to be alone
If you could only just consider the two of us
And I know darlin' I could be so good to you

I see you risin' on the horizon
Bringin' light into the day
And I'm coastin' on your rays
When I awoke you spoke through the midst of a mystic bliss
Casting shadows on all my dismal yesterdays
Do you remember that you told me darlin' that I was so real
I tell you all my tears for you are real
We'll cross that bridge again someday
I know we will
I hope we will

Desert moonrise into the night
Before we lay our heads I wish to walk under the splendorous starlight
Sing so sweetly
It's the sweetest sound
And I become weak in the knees
And I drop down and kiss the ground
And all my cares lie far below
In this earth I wish to die
In this heart my fire grows