Recalibration
About This Blog
After taking a break from the blogosphere for years, I have decided to recalibrate the purpose and the content of Awake! I want this blog to focus on hope that doesn’t disappoint. I want it to focus on rebuilding when our financial and personal infrastructure collapses. When tragedy after tragedy numbs us to joy, I want this blog to be a herald, big or small, for looking up. It isn’t optimism but realism. I am about being something bigger than myself and making people discuss the big picture. My hope isn’t built on presidents, governments, or money, but built on nothing less than Jesus Christ and His righteousness.
That might offend you. That might make you switch to another blog to other opinions. I don’t really care. I care about being ruggedly authentic and speaking truth. If you don’t like what I have to say, that’s fine. Please don’t abuse me with your anger and move on. Whether you agree or disagree, please feel free to leave respectful feedback.
About Me
I am a white, middle-class twenty something. I graduated from Texas A&M University with a degree in Journalism and Communication. Like everybody else, I was hit hard by the recession. My many post-graduate part-time jobs couldn’t make rent and I was homeless for a brief time, avoiding the streets only by having a medical emergency that landed me in my parent’s guest room. I’ve had deaths in the family and seen so many friends and relatives get married and have babies this past year. My favorite music is the Blues, but yet I can not sing it. I have not been hit any harder by tragedy than anybody else. My experiences are nothing that sets me apart from anybody else. I only offer a general glimpse to give you a background into my articles. I believe in the complete grace of a nail scarred Jesus, King of everything, King of the air we breathe.
Other than that here are a few things about me:
*I drink tea like the English with cream and sugar but drink coffee black.
*I like the old school hard-boiled detective novels of Raymond Chandler.
*I am a typical Texan: I am overly proud of my state and consider it superior to lesser known states like Ohio.
*I have primarily Scottish and German decent with some American Indian in me somewhere.
*I enjoy hiking and doing outdoorsy things though I am overweight and lazy.
*I work HR in a sea of cubicles at a government owned bank, one of the top 3 now, but I hate corporate America and am minorly convinced I’ll be micro-chipped and tracked at any moment.
*My top 5 musical recording artist (circa High Fidelity) are Johnny Cash, Jimi Hendrix/Eric Clapton, Shawn McDonald, Weezer, and John Lee Hooker.
