a dream

last week i had a dream. it wasn't one of those DREAM dreams, like Martin Luther King had. It wasn't even a dream like my little sister had. it was a i don't like the way i am so i am going to change dream.

i decided i need to work out. i need to do the things i need to do. i need to figure out what i want out of life. and what i want to put in it.

all i got out of that dream was one of those oh cool tomorrow is a new day and i will start over feelings. the kind of feelings you get everytime you realize your last dream died young.

i have come to realize i never really do start over =) i move on. i'm not a let go of the past guy really. i'm a sit around and look at the past and wonder why it is the past, and not something else that i wish was the past but really isn't the past at all. see...it's way easier to dream than to act.

and sometimes its way more fun. you get results quicker.

someone once said "I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can be together all the time."

makes sense to me

even if this post didn't

i won rascal flatts tickets!!!!! how cool is that? last night the DJ on kj wanted to know what the first song rascal flatts ever came out with, and the first person to email her with the correct answer wins. so i did. and this morning i found out i won.

so listening to the radio at 11:00 really does pay off.

so does listening to a lot of music. wait till i tell my dad. lol.

the ironic thing is he won tickets to a concert yesterday too.

must be a DeGennaro thing huh?? =)

a midsummer nights dream

last night there was the bestest sunset ever. it was amazing. these pictures don't really do it justice.

this summer has been a letdown so far. i mean, besides the JCC deal, i haven't really done anything. But that was cool enough to satisfy me.



more sunset pictures from last night. yea.

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i took this long exposure out my bedroom window. it was pretty cool.

I. HATE. piano

yes sir. i do. last night i did the worst re write of a Tchaikovsky piece you can ever hope not to hear. i played the first notes well enough =) but then i looked down at my hands to change position, and when i looked back up i had lost where i was. so i was like ARGHHHHHHHHHH!!! so i pounded away at related chords until i found my place, hoping no one would notice. it was MISERABLE. i plyed the whole first page wrong. but i got my other two songs good-ish. so that was cool. but......ugh. i bombed the first one.

dude it was so cool getting to do the pictures for the JCC stingrays this year. it was like awesome to get to make a product for people, that, if done correctly, they'd want to hold on to, and it would serve to remind them something amazing they've accomplished. hanging out with these kids was like super cool. seeing them come from not really knowing what the heck they're doing out there to competing and winning....beating other kids....and seeing the looks on their faces when they did....that was cool. you can see some of the pictures at www.flickr.com/photos/never_surrender

You feel like a candle in a hurricane
Just like a picture with a broken frame
Alone and helpless, like you've lost your fight
But you'll be alright, you'll be alright

Chorus:
'Cause when push comes to shove
You taste what your made of
You might bend 'til you break
'Cause it's all you can take
On your knees you look up
Decide you've had enough
You get mad, you get strong
Wipe you hands, shake it off
Then you stand, then you stand

Life's like a novel with end ripped out
The edge of a canyon with only one way down
Take what your given before it's gone
And start holdin' on, keep holdin' on

(Repeat chorus)

Every time you get up and get back in the race
One more small piece of you starts to fall into place - yeah

One

One
Originally uploaded by stilllearninghowtofly - W W Tribe Psychiatrist

only one. maybe i can't do everything. but i can do something. maybe i'm not the best. but i will be. maybe this life is pointless and dull. maybe its not. maybe someday i'll fly. maybe i won't. at the end of the day, does it matter? when you look at that one person you really love, does anything matter?

i was born a rambling man

yes i was . i was also born an i HATE racism with everything i have man. i hate it when people refer to people of different races by racial slurs. i hate it when people are turned down for jobs or housing because of the color of their skin. why do some people think America should be for white people only. that everyone else can 'take their sorry asses back where they came from.' never mind that everyone here at some point. never mind this country was built on the blood of immigrants. never mind, that on the statue of liberty is written the words

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your Huddled masses yearning to breathe free
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore
Send these the homeless, tempess tossed to me
I lift my lamp Beside the golden door


Never mind it's neither American, or even Christian to hold these principals. i'll shut up now. but first i'll print these lyrics from a song by the Warren Brothers.
We ain't just Democrats,we ain't just Republicans
It's all for one and one for all were Americans
And we pray that we see our children's children
And our sons grow to old men

bikes. and tykes. yikes.

me and maddie
Originally uploaded by stilllearninghowtofly.

yay. so last night we had a bike rodeo at scouts that i helped at. it was interesting. wanna know what you get when you combine 5-12 year olds, wheels, and ego?

you get a bike rodeo. =)

everyone found it necessary to compete against each other. even though we said it wasnt a competition. even though we said 'you'll get hurt'.

do you want to know what you get when you combine a photo op, kids, a great sunset, and a camera?? dead batteries.

so i barely got any pictures. oh well. life will go on.