collective: Volume 1, Summer | Page 33

Corey Kilgannon Brady Quarles Art https:// www.facebook.com/ pages/Brady-QuarlesArt/145176312236622 I love The Old Man and the Sea by Hemmingway and realize that after living in Nashville for 2 years I’ve got a bad case of the land-locked blues. It’s important to slow down sometimes and relax, and I do that way better at the beach than anywhere else. I can’t get over the book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. I’ve read it like 4 times already, and am reading it again. Every page I read I discover something new about it, and it is such a gut-wrenching story. It really just captures how crazy a person’s brain can be when they hit immense suffering, and I am so often frustrated with people’s lack of sympathy for others in dark times. That book seriously makes me cry like a baby. SO good. This video of a bunch of crazy talented folks covering Johnny Cash songs out in the desert. I LOVE Johnny Cash and these versions are spot on! I have a lot of songwriter/music friends that I am consistently blown away by. My friend Ryan Travis is releasing a live EP to send kids to camp that is gorgeous. Monica Moser is working on an acoustic record that I’m sure is gonna be crazy awesome. Liza Ann e is touring Europe....thats just 3 of many many more that are blowing my mind and making me realize how much I still have to learn. My girlfriend gifted me a book called Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl. The author, a psychologist, was imprisoned in several Nazi camps and wrote on the human feelings of hopelessness and what our purpose is in life. The writing, which is admittedly biased and written out of experience, touches on the responsibility we have to live life and live it to the fullest, but its much different coming from someone who truly lived arguably the most brutal conditions one could go through on earth. Its a really interesting and insightful read.