I get it

Friends,

sometimes you hear something, see something written and go through life thinking you've understood it.
then life happens, and you realize you never really got it.

Priorities,
faithfulness,
big world,
scary indeed.

don't you remember what I said,
don't you get it?
I'll keep on,
and on and on,
reminding you.

Stop it.

It's here in my mind,
written in me,
finding its place
to stay.

I get it.

not sure if this makes sense...if not, it didn't take too long to read so there you go.

Love,
C

Ps hope you "get" something soon too friends. It's a bittersweet feeling.

Eat up the goodness

Friends,



The Two Can Share Concert went splendidly! We had a rocking show and so much fun on that stage!

Altogether we collected 341 canned goods and about $50.00 in monetary donations.

It was absolutely amazing to see all the college student volunteers come together.






Everyone did a great job and my heart could not have been happier. I got to make music with some really cool people and see how awesome it is to come together and help out people in the community AND doing it with such gusto. awesome. :)

Thank you for everyone who made it out to the show. It was a dream come true. :) I think my favorite part of the night...well there were many but I enjoyed talking with my bandmates up on stage and talking to the audience. I am glad people didn't mind me rambling up on that stage and for that, you are very special people. :)


Some quotes for the night from our speakers,

"I think it is great the Portico student group chose this organization to benefit! I think there are some very passionate and talented students involved in Portico and they are doing some amazing things in our community! "
-Lindsey Rogers of KAUZ news

"Everything was very organized; the greeters at the front door, Brittney and crew in back kept everyone moving right along. I was proud to be a part of such an excting evening provided by wonderful young men and women!"
-Becky Browning of Faith Mission

I hope people were moved, had fun, stood up and clapped, and felt apart of something bigger.

This was a good start friends...keyword: start.

Love, eat up today and enjoy the beautiful, wacky people in your lives,
C

If cows can

Friends,
As all of you may know, I've had a benefit concert on my hands for awhile and I believe it went well. I had a blast up there on that stage with my amazing bandmates and amazing band of family and friends cheering me down below. :)

As some of you may know, there was much planning put into this past event and although I enjoyed most of it, I learned rest is an important factor.

As I was riding in a car, I noticed pastures upon pastures filled with cows and other animals. They were all resting for the afternoon. I thought to myself, if cows can take a rest, certainly I can right?

Yes, work, progress, putting myself out there, practice, and goals are all very important things, so is rest. Rest should actually reside at the top of that list.

As much as the benefit concert made me so proud, made my heart so happy, helped out the community, entertained many....rest, rest, rest rang in my ears.

It's happy, helpful, entertaining...rest, that is.

<3,
a restful C

Look at me

Friends,

I'm like...

a child with a new toy,
a girl who is ready to see her friend's reaction to the cake she made,
a pair of jeans that is loved to death,

a fall candle,
a new music book,
a favorite CD that on repeat,

a puzzle newly finished and screams to be displayed.

The benefit concert has made its way here and everything is finally coming together! It's crazy how it was such a puzzle 3 months ago and I was frantic in trying to find the corner pieces of it...but after the frustrations and confusions of grouping the pieces with similar color schemes together, trying to force-fit some pieces together, and staring the pieces together in the face for hours, a picture is coming into view.

Come see what we've done. I believe it looks pretty great.

Two Can Share Benefit Concert for Faith Mission
Saturday, Nov. 20, 2010
Akin Auditorium at MSU
7:00 pm-9:00 pm
*Bring two canned goods

<3 <3 <3,
C

the good kind

"There is a design, an alignment, a cry
Of my heart to see,
The beauty of love as it was made to be."
-Mumford and Sons

It's performance time this week. It doesn't seem real that the date is finally here! Waves of nerves pass me periodically throughout the day. I've been listening around and people are talking about the show, the music, me...and at first thought, I am thinking, how awesome...my name is getting put out there and people are talking about it...then I start to think, people are talking about me? Really? This is strange.

I'm excited. I've been excited from the very start...when the thoughts came running through my head and made its way on paper, through word of mouth, brainstorming, in songs, jam sessions, flyers, prayers, hugs, more dialogue, confusion, and it's about to come alive.

I'm nervous. I've been nervous from the very start...when thoughts of will this come through started happening, when I wasn't sure my music was good enough, the ideas faltered, people were busy with other events, etc....

well after reading this over, I think the excitement outweighs the nervousness...there is such things as good kind of nervous right?

"Just do what you need to do and everything will fall into place."
"Well, make sure not to run yourself down."
"I'm just pretty icing to the awesome cupcake that you have been baking."
"Relax Casie, everything will be fine. Promise."

...yeah what they said. :)

It's the end of Tues...tomorrow's Wed....then Thurs...then Friday and then Saturday.

I can't help but be nervous but I also can't help but smile.

<3
C

Yay :)

Two Can Share on KAUZ news


<3
C

Haze

Sometimes you have to go through some of the bad to find good...dunk your head in the water bin to bite into one of those apple? I don't know how finding the good through the bad compares to bobbing for apples but it's a strange concept isn't it? By the way, have you done that before? I haven't...secretly wish I have but then again I probably wouldn't. What if I could never get the apple out of my teeth? That's horrifying. I may have some bad dreams tonight...anyways, I digress... back to the first statement, you know what I mean right? I guess that is how I see this whole process of going through the bad stuff to find the good...it's just a strange concept...when many times you wish you could just pick the apple up with your hands from the water...easy as that.

I get the opportunities to participate in so many musical endeavors lately...whether it's accompanying people, teaching music, being a member in a band...I'm learning so much more about myself, my abilities and where I see myself going.

I admire people who deicide to choose a different profession other than music because they might possibly abhor it otherwise if they continued their music career. Is that where I stand? As I am trying out these different musical situations, it's the question of "will this make me hate music and shut off my stereo at the end of the day?" that makes me decide whether or not I could do one of these jobs as a living.

Right now what keeps me going is the music I am making with my bandmates and my solo stuff...I'm not sure if they know what a big and wonderful part of my life they are but I am glad for it.

Even though I am rather limited in my musicals experience as of now, I'm starting to see some things more clearly...what I want out of life concerning music. I don't want to ever tire of it. Ever. It's so important to me. So even if things may be difficult to sit through right now and I may not be enjoying some things...clarity will come through.

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Guards

You're a haze after the rain,
against brighter shades of leaves,
coming once in awhile,
you shine, you shine brighter than the rest.

Keep me in waking nights,
the wash of your laughter still remains
as the haziness resides.

Trust time.

Can I look at you and remain this way?
You're something golden in my eyes,
yet holding it in tightly to your chest,
you're so much more guarded than the rest.

I would be willing to stay,
find the point of making you sway,
away, away now.

You're just guarded, that's all,
unaware of my stares from the rest.

<3
C

PS Picture taken in Bayeux, France.