summer plans

In the last month I've tried to compose several posts, with topics ranging from the Eucharist to the antichrist, but I'd rather not turn this blog into a platform to discuss those types of things... maybe another day/another blog.

For now, I want to give a brief outlook of my summer plans... If you know anything about me, you'll know that I don't really enjoy playing the catch-up game, so I'm going to try to make this as quick as possible.

here we go:

My housing will be up in a couple of weeks, but I'm not returning to Texas until late June, so I'll be living on the grace of loved ones and working in the city until then.

After finishing work, I'll spend a weekend in Portland with my good friend Jon (pictured), and hopefully we'll shoot a movie.


I'll then go home for 2 weeks or so, giving and receiving an abundant number of hugs... These will potentially be my favorite 2 weeks of the season.

Michael (my younger brother) and I will then depart to Europe: 10 days in Denmark, 14 in Norway with the extended Rogers Clan, 14 more with the two of us, followed by 14 days in Norway with only strangers to love (and by whom to be loved).

This trip is going to be amazing, and Michael and I will both pee our pants at every leg.

I'm hoping to shoot a film while there as well, with minimal funding and maximal care... and hopefully I can see it through to the end.

At this point, it will be September.

While I've been planning to return to Stanford for the fall, I'm thinking that I might rather create a cave for myself; I could then crawl inside it to try and edit 2 films before Thanksgiving - this is called "planning on top of planning", because the footage I want to edit doesn't even exist yet... I have not proven myself to be very good at this sort of planning, so I'm not really sure how to approach this fall.

I think I'll try to approach it carefully.

So that is my summer into fall (Lord willing).

Whew

It's an amazing life, I know, but please don't succumb to the temptation to romanticize it - I will, for you, try to resist the temptation to make it sound too romantic. I'm trying to make the most of the life that I was given - the thing that makes this task difficult, for me, is that I have been given a lot of life to live.