I'm just a little bit caught in the middle Life is a maze, and love is a riddle."

I don't know where to go, can't do it alone I've tried. And I don't know why"

It was the summer of 2009. I was on summer staff at Camp McDowell. Not the best summer on record in my life, but one made bearable by where I was and the people around me. Most of that story is one for another time. The specific memory I have now from that time period is that there were several of us that played hacky sack through most of the summer. One or two of the staff had a few we could play with, so we did. We weren't that great, but we were having fun. On occasion, when we were going through a particularly bad string of drops - like only one or two kicks for 4 or 5 minutes, or however long, someone would say, "O.K. guys, change scenery." What this would mean was that everybody would go to a new spot in our circle. While the circle itself was in the same spot, the people in it were standing in different spots. You had different scenery - a different point of view. Although the actions, the goal, the game were still the same, there was something still different about it. And it most of the time it worked. We started doing better.

I think this is what moving to Virginia and working at Innisfree has done for me. It has offered a change of scenery. I'm still looking at life's challenges and my goals and everything else I have in my head, just a little differently because I'm literally and figuratively in a new place. I've done this with small things before - math problems, small repairs that I couldn't figure out, and things of the like. I would leave them and come back. I don't know why I haven't applied it on a larger life scale before. I am certainly not trying to leave or run away from my problems or goals or anything like that. I have simply changed the scenery. And after two months, I started slowly looking at them again, from a new point of view.

And I think that Lent and Easter offer us the opportunity to do just that - take a good long look at where we are in life, then change the scenery. Tear it down, maybe leave for a while, and then come look at it again, with a refreshed set of eyes.

I think persistence is a good ingredient to mix in with this, I'm just not sure how to mix it in without rambling.

Hoppy (almost)Easter.

I am just a little boy lost in the moment. I'm so scared but I don't show it. I can't figure it out. It's bringing me down I know. I've got to let it go. And just enjoy the show."