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This is really cool stuff for my possible future career:)

Okay, maybe that title is misleading. These are the questions you might ask if you knew who to ask, or how.

Why does the therapist ask for my medical history?

While massage therapy is generally safe and helpful, a few conditions are complete contraindications for receiving massage. Others...

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The Last Bison

If you like Mumford and Sons, they don't even compare to the unique sound of this mountaintop chamber sound of this band. To this day, I remember the first time I saw them and it has been a wonderful journey to follow them on and how successful they're becoming.

It was March 2010 and it was at a church in Virginia Beach right by Town Center and Princess Anne High School, for a Tsunami Relief Benefit Concert for Japan. When I saw these strangely dressed people I heard a rumor going around that night where people thought they were Amish. They didn't have the greatest impression at first for me, dressing differently, having some very unique and diverse instruments that aren't normally in today's bands, and many problems with their soundcheck leaving the highlight of the band being pulled back an hour.  

So at first, I was just curious to see what kind of music this would be. I had no expectations, and I was very skeptical to be honest.

They started their three-song set-list and began their part of the show with Switzerland, one of their most popular songs today. From the very first simultaneous notes of the xylophone, banjo, violin, cello, box-organ, acoustic guitar and bass drum, I was dumbfounded. Never have I heard such blissful, chime-like, heavenly sound before. My ears were forever changed.

They keep playing, adding harmonies, dissonance, and melodic, rhythmic, genius chords, changing from happy to sorrowful and feeling the cries of Teresa's gorgeous violin.

In the middle of listening to Ben, the lead vocalist, singing "...we thank God for it anyway..." realizing that they included faith into their music proved that they were just angels from God. It was the cherry on top. 

After Switzerland, they take a different approach to settle the crowd down with Woodcutter's Son. Listening to the mourning and the passion from the song kept me swaying side to side floating in musical paradise, almost resulting to tears. Beyond beautiful.

Their last song they played that night, was Dark Am I, and since the sound was constantly going out and they couldn't hear each other, they all unplugged their instruments. It was getting real. Not only was it becoming more personal being unplugged, at the end of the song they invited the crowd to chant with them just like gypsies in the middle of the streets dancing for joy. I was enticed by the joy and the raw emotion while they were playing, I had to get their album!

After the show, one of my friends, Terrence (tumblr: theblacknerd; check him out) introduced me to the band members and it was so hard trying to act normal after my life was practically changed! After awkwardly stating how amazed I was by their sound and shaking each of their hands I learned later that night that they didn't even have an album out yet, not even recorded. I was appalled.

Later that night and for the next few weeks to come I started looking them up on Youtube finding house shows they did, listening to other songs they performed, wishing  that I knew them enough to perform at my house! 

Long story short- I became their number one fan real quick. Everyone can say that they're Bison's #1 fan, but let's be real here. Not sure that's possible.

So everyone check them out! They're truly wonderful people to meet and I am beyond excited to see them again, whenever it will be. So get on that people!

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A woman in her glory, a woman of beauty, is a woman who is not striving to become beautiful or worthy or enough. She knows in her quiet center where God dwells that he finds her beautiful, has deemed her worthy, and in him, she is enough.

Captivating by John and Stasi Eldredge (via -dejalenae-)

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Many question if God is on their side. The correct question is: Am I on God’s side?

Aranka Simon (via ivyanonuevo)

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Amy Poehler on apologizing (x)

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Is It Bad?

When a guy makes you want to be single for the rest of your life? 

I am just so glad that I don't have emotional attachments to the opposite sex at this point in my life. Call me whatever you want by this post, but I'm just tired of guys in general. I just want to be single and not think that any guy is cute! I just want to be totally focused on God and not worry about any douche-bag guy. :) 

Thanks, Jesus, for not being a douchebag ;) 

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“cool jeans,” i tell a cute boy

little did he know that i actually talking about his genes because those chromosomes have combined beautifully ay papi

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I think this has happened to me before!

MORE OF WTF-FUN-FACTS are coming HERE

funny and weird facts ONLY

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I think this is blog-worthy (:

This was a discussion board we had about Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech in class, and these are some elements that made his speech effective and here's what I said: 

  While listening to this speech, I was dissecting the way Dr. King Jr. was talking, the way he presented himself, his eye contact, the calmness, basically reading his body language throughout this recording. I noticed how his passion sang through his speech. From today's class, and from understanding the "most effective artistic proofs", Dr. King Jr. incorporated every proof of Logos, Pathos, and Ethos. 

He explained through the logos approach the logic, the facts of what people who are black had to deal with in history and even though Abraham Lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation, there is still discrimination, "...we're still not free...". The police's brutality, including what's been happening with the separation of whites and blacks in schools, and essentially everywhere.

Likewise, King used repetition while tugging at the crowd's heart strings, speaking to empathize, to remind the audience that he too dealt with discrimination, the pain, utilizing emotion and righteous anger that there was something not right in the world, and grabbing that pain from the massive amount of people in that same area, capturing that grief that was going through that whole group. To counter that negativity, he traced back to his roots where he and many others could relate to hymns and spiritual, positive songs of being free in this country.

And finally, King united ethos to elaborate in his faith that he earned up to his credibility being a pastor, and showing love and acceptance towards whites and blacks, like Jesus would do. I think Dr. King started with derived credibility before this speech, and worked his way to where he was as a pastor, and a spokesperson for all blacks, truly, which granted his credibility.

In the duration of this short clip, I think of quite a few black speakers I have had accounts with, and link their passion, their bravery, and their courage to speak their mind, like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to a group of individuals who may or may not be willing to comprehend or even listen to what they have to say. I watch this in awe, seeing one man, and one speech can have such an impact on millions of people throughout the world.

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Man I hope I get to go back there one day.

☼ take me here: venice, italy

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