blake studdard

every now and then, it gets to me …
every now and then, i start feeling like i’m losing myself to the things that i’m doing or not doing.
every now and then, i see my instability and start to wobble back and forth between being in control and falling from whatever i’m supposed to be balancing [...]

and it’s killing me.
okay, maybe it’s a little bit fun. but not when i have an assignment due at 9:30 (8.5 hours from now) and I just now got the page to appear on my domain… no links work yet, but the images are somehow magically on the server after hours of uploading and re-uploading.
here’s [...]

wrote this a while back, forgot about it… interesting.
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so what do you do?
i’m in school and i work.
what’s your major?
visual communications… graphic design… its the same thing.
when are you graduating?
may 2010. if i stick with the school part.
what do you do for work?
i’m [...]

I care about my family.
Who are the ones in my family?
The ones that hold the various keys to different parts of my destiny.
But as soon as I care about them because they hold the key to the next part of my life, I am derailed.
I’m learning how to be in a family. And my best/favorite teachers [...]

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this is the first sketch of a first draft of a first idea of the artwork for the record. Critique welcome, you won’t hurt my feelings. But know that this [...]

I’ll get to that later.
Today was awesome. Scratch that. I hate when I say that. It tells so much about nothing at all.
Today was nuts. boom. 
I had  some craazy talks with some very powerful spiritual leaders in my life. Then I went to a prayer meeting where the fire alarm went off after someone prayed, [...]

I recently received a comment on my about me (“blake?”) page that I found extremely encouraging. 
Keeping with the month 11 theme, Mozambique has continued to pop up in many areas, but to receive a mozambican comment that quoted my words from last year really sent me over the edge. ‘It messed with me,’ is what [...]

Yesterday marked the 11th month since our return home from Mozambique, Africa. I won’t go into the details of the past weeks, but I will say that the Lord has been highlighting the trip in supernatural ways. Madison (my assistant leader and close friend) and I sat down last night and began (emphasis on began) [...]