Well, the Ragers finally got to go on their yearly vacation to North Carolina for the Wild Goose Festival. It was in a different location and later than usual....that didn't matter...we wouldn't miss it for the world. I didn't really 'experience' the music, organized talks, and other things like I have in the past but I have to say it wasn't any less incredible. Shane and I decided to volunteer and we were Team Leaders for the Ambassadors. What the hell does that mean? Well, our job was to make sure to answer questions. Help them WHEREVER it was needed. (that's kind of everyone's job...they just gave us a title)
This year seemed to focus a lot on people just being together. Making connections. Even for a brief moment....look into someone's eyes....let them see it, feel it, and then maybe he or she will want to share it.
I decided to list the top 22 things from my WildGoose Weekend
1. Port-a-Jon's do not normally have the best toilet paper. Bring your own. (Great thinking Shane) He's convinced the toilet paper they use is made out of the QuikMelt stuff they put in medications for kids.
2. If you bring any sort of liquor in a beautiful mason jar...the people will gather. (it can also be used as a form of currency)
3. When you hear music from your high school days and it sounds just as good, and your children also find it to be some of the best music they've ever heard...you can't help but feel like you've done something right in raising your children. Arrested Development? Yes please.
4. Gifts made from the heart and handed out to old friends and new friends are the best gifts. Jon Eric....my mug holds more than a bottle of beer....nice. :)
5. Phyllis Tickle is not only a great name, but an amazing woman.
6. Having a blind man of the cloth tell you that he can't drink your 'homemade elixir' because he heard "that shit will make you go blind" is probably the funniest thing I've ever heard...it was even funnier when he decides to take a big swig of it.....twice :)
7. Tarps are underrated at a campground that is getting an exceptional large amount of rain.
8. Swallowing your toothpaste in the morning because you don't want to get out of bed to spit it on the ground is not only lazy, but not really good for you. (I tried it twice.....I'm right.)
9. Glo-Sticks are an amazing way to get an entire crowd to be united.
10. Showing love isn't always the answer....being love is. Being love can not be mistakened.
11. Nadia Bolz-Weber is taller when you stand next to her.
12. When you hold a clipboard inside a Hospitality Tent....people think you are 'more important' than you really are. The Hospitality Team were the incredible ones.
13. Singing hymns is the best when it is done in the rain with a beer in your hand with 300 of your friends.
14. Some people work really hard to do nothing while others work really hard to find more to do.
15. Sand inside a tent is really a little piece of Satan everywhere.
16. When someone stops and looks at you in the eyes and is not preoccupied with ANY thing else, they have given you an amazing gift. True concern, understanding, love, and compassion is worth more than anyone's bank account. Thank you Melvin Bray.
17. When someone says "they were told they needed to meet you". Listen. You're about to hear the most amazing love story in your entire life. Thank you Paul Phillips.
18. If you see a snake in tree next to your tent, be happy. You know WHERE he is now. It's when he's no longer, there you might be concerned.
19. Tent babies need to be birthed regularly or else they collapse the entire pop up canopy. (Awesome)
20. Clothes that have been wet for a week and shoved into Rubbermaid tubs smell surprisingly like really good kimchi. (or really bad kimchi....I can't tell the difference)
21. Listening to friends argue about whether or not they had accused someone of being Cuban instead of Puerto Rican makes me laugh. (I'm not sure if it's ok to laugh....but I truly can't help it).
22. Sometimes when you finally decide to ask a brother for help because you are looking for someone, Jesus just 'might' have placed him in the very port-a-jon you were standing next to.
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