i got back from gma last night. it was unbelievable. i haven’t gotten this little sleep since, well last week when i was getting the demos ready and setting up tracks for next week. but all in all it was a good week. it’s so funny, i was really scared about going. see it’s all these interviews and playing on radio station after radio station and more interviews and leading a time of corporate worship for a room full of industry folks with only my acoustic guitar and playing at the dove awards and talking at a sales conference and playing my acoustic for more industry folks and more interviews… i was convinced before going that i could do nothing but harm our current standing. i mean every time i was in a setting it was an opportunity for saying something ridiculous or forgetting lyrics or hitting wrong chords or forgetting to plug the guitar in or saying something ridiculous again and on and on. and it really feels like we’re at a fine place, as far as the industry side of things go, you know, the people who actually get the cds into the stores and what not seem to find us agreeable at this point and worth their efforts to carve out space for us to be on the shelves and so it seemed better to just not go. justifiable in the sense that if you’re out of site, you are out of mind, you know? it’s just funny how fragile i am sometimes. i was terrified. i haven’t not wanted to do something so bad in a long time. but i went…and it was unbelievable. i have a strong suspicion that it was god’s intent that i be a part of what was going on there this week. there were so many moments that could have just gone either way but rather than me screwing them up or even having them just turning out ok (which i would have been thrilled with) they were so over the top. i should know better you know? the whole strength in weakness thing. i think god rewards risk. it’s the parable of the talents. you risk investing to see what he has given you increase…
oh and we spent some time with the most spiritual man i’ve ever met. marty stuart. i will tell you about it soon but i must go and be about the day now…
2:40 pm:
Hubble’s infrared vision has captured bright knots of stars forming in the heart of Arp 220. The bright, crescent, moon-shaped object is a remnant core of one of the colliding galaxies. The core is a cluster of 1 billion stars. The core’s half-moon shape suggests that its bottom half is obscured by a disk of dust about 300 light-years across. This disk is embedded in the core and may be swirling around a black hole. The core of the other colliding galaxy is the bright round object to the left of the crescent, moon-shaped object. Both cores are about 1,200 light-years apart and are orbiting each other.
Credit: Rodger Thompson, Marcia Rieke, Glenn Schneider (University of Arizona) and Nick Scoville (California Institute of Technology), and NASA