Friday, January 1, 2016

33 Reasons Why 2015 Was Great:

1. Started recording again and began building my next album













2. Watched an orchestra perform the music of John Williams in front of me for a night













3. Worked my first women's maximum security prison for an entire weekend and saw so many women's lives be restored















4. Saw mewithoutYou in concert for the 5th time













5. Reached year 11 of surviving brain trauma



















6. Went to Eureka Springs for the day just because



















7. Explored the hallways of America's most haunted hotel



















8. Became an aunt for the very first time



















9. Went on my first tour with the band












10. Discovered I could ride a bicycle and picked up a new favourite hobby













11. Turned 23



















12. Jumped off some big rocks



















13. Got weird and dyed my hair silver (thanks Olivia)



















14. Went to the fair















15. Saw beautiful Colorado again











16. Went to Iceland













17. "Swam" in a lagoon













18. Stood in a waterfall



















19. Went caving for the first time



















20. Watched a geyser erupt



















21. Saw approx 70+ waterfalls (including the largest one in Europe)













22. Found the ruins of an old plane crash I had been dying to see













23. Saw iceburgs and a glacier


24. Saw the Arctic Ocean


25. Spied on Greenland



















26. Dressed like the Tin Man for a day















27. Got to spend Thanksgiving and Christmas with my whole immediate family for the first time in years



















28. Shot some big guns
























29. Released a Christmas EP



















30. STAR WARS













31. Got to hold approx 13 worship services in the Dick Conner's Correctional Facility in Hominy and the Tulsa County Jail



















33. Learned a little bit more about being present and a lot more about setting self aside, and what an enabler my God is