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Wednesday, September 19, 2012

15 Years Today...

If you've followed this blog for any amount of time, you know I'm a Rich Mullins fan.

On September 10, 1997, Rich Mullins sat alone in an old abandoned church and played nine of the ten songs that were released as The Jesus Record.

Nine days later, 15 years ago today, he was killed in a car accident.

"Rich Mullins, a popular Christian musician, died this past Saturday morning in a car accident in Illinois. According to the AP, he was thrown from a sports utility vehicle after the car lost control and flipped over. He was then struck by a tractor-trailer as the trucker swerved to avoid the overturned vehicle. Mullins, 41, and Mitch McVicker, 24, who as of Sunday was in critical condition, were on their way to a benefit concert in his hometown of Wichita Kansas when the accident occurred near Peoria Illinois."


I didn't get into his music until a year after he died, after I moved to Mississippi.  I wondered how I would have handled it had I been into his music before he died.  Still.

Saturday, September 1, 2012

The Importance of a Diary

Yesterday was my 20th birthday.  I book-shopped, clothing-shopped, went see The Avengers (again! and yes, it is still playing at my local theatres), and ate Chili's.  No, I didn't get sang to.  Thank God.

I also filled up my diary that I've been writing in sporadically, although more often now, since April of 2010.  It's all filled up and I got a new diary waiting to be written in.

Funny, how time goes on.