the city of love...

I am spending valentines day 2006 in PARIS; the city of love. that is really special. this city is so beautiful, its crazy - i love it! I get to spend it with 50 other people tonight-the last nite of our tour. but somehow, the more people there are, the more empty it seems to be sometimes... I don't know whats going thru your mind today...but i've been encouraged by a song in my travels that has deepened me, molded me, and just plain helped me deal with solitude.

solitude in many ways really, in as many different ways you can experience solitude, i've probably felt it in the past 5 weeks; but in the good way, the character forming way.

I hope this song helps you think about love today in a new and fresh way. In a way that makes you long and hold out for the real thing.


WALK WITH ME by Sandra McCracken

Walk with me quiet, walk with me slow
With watered down coffee and words of gold
I can feel the edges of these things
When I hear you speak to me, so walk with me

Walk with me empty, walk with me strong
The hush of our voices, when the day seems so long
It is like a balm, it is like a jewel
It unravels all I thought I knew

Will you lead me, beside the still waters
Where the oil, it runs over, and my cup overflows
You restore my soul

Tell me the story, where old is made new
The promise of ages, and all things that are true
When the shadows fall and the wrecking ball
Swings and tears me through the heart

Will you lead me, beside the still waters
Where the oil, it runs over, and my cup overflows
You restore my soul

switzerland

wow. internet time is expensive in europe. i donàt expect to be get another blog in until mazbe getting to belfast this weekend

if zouère wondering whz i canät spell, its because the european kezboards have their kezs all mixed up. Iäm tzping exactlz like i would on a north american kezboard, but as zou can see some letters are mixed around. ha. i would change it, but that would mean looking onto the kezs and wasting valuable internet time. plus this is more fun.

i dunno what to saz. its been prettz phenomenal. everz new citz i get into i think its wonderful and so completelz unique. the common conversation on the bus is what is zour favourite citz. and i honestlz canät pick... thez are all so unique and wonderful in their own right. rome was amaying. oh mz gosh. the sistine chapel is phenomenal and the colosseum and forum is unreal. there are so manz things reallz. iäve been having a blast....

there are so manz different tzpes of people on our tour. people from all over the world. south africa, australia, new yealand, brayil, mexico...prettz much from everz continent. its odd. no americans... there usuallz is a one or two apparentlz.

oh zea, mz blog page is filled with german words. this menu, is completelz in german. i reallz feel like a foregner. i had next to no problems in india with english, but all over germanz, austria, italz well....i gotta speak the language.

anzwaz. iäm having a great time. and will be home soon. the second leg of journez starts on the 15th, where i will be alone for much of it.

write soon