Somewhere Only We Know

This is my favorite song as well as one of the songs which I have dedicated to my home,

Maple Dell Scout Camp, and those dear friends who have worked with me there over the years.

Somewhere Only we Know 

I walked across an empty land
I knew the pathway like the back of my hand
I felt the earth beneath my feet
Sat by the river and it made me complete

Oh simple thing where have you gone?
I'm getting old and I need something to rely on
So tell me when you're gonna let me in
I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin

I came across a fallen tree
I felt the branches of it looking at me
Is this the place we used to love?
Is this the place that I've been dreaming of?

Oh simple thing where have you gone?
I'm getting old and I need something to rely on
So tell me when you're gonna let me in
I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin

And if you have a minute why don't we go
Talk about it somewhere only we know?
This could be the end of everything
So why don't we go
Somewhere only we know?
Somewhere only we know?

Oh simple thing where have you gone?
I'm getting old and I need something to rely on
So tell me when you're gonna let me in
I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin

And if you have a minute why don't we go
Talk about it somewhere only we know?
This could be the end of everything
So why don't we go?
So why don't we go?

This could be the end of everything
So why don't we go
Somewhere only we know?
Somewhere only we know?
Somewhere only we know? 

CarsonKG

Spontaneity... on a dresser

Have any of you noticed how things that are seemingly simple, random and not worth paying any mind to can become some really neat things worth a lot of attention if you just throw the right light on them and give them a little bit of attention? Well I learned this lesson a couple of years ago when I for no reason at all turned my lamp to face my messy dresser-top.

It was just just a lot of random things.

 

Then I turn on the lamp

and...

Do you see it?

 

 Add a paper dragon.

Light some candles.

Do a little photo editing 

and wallah!
 

Something remarkable.

Let this be a lesson to us all.

There are people all around us who we take for granted.

We don't think that they're worth our while.

We consider them another random person.

We don't see their true worth.

We don't see them under the light.

We miss something remarkable.

Yesterday I met a young lady.

She lives near me and I've seen her several times but never thought it worth my while to stop and get to know her until yesterday.

I finally talked to her and discovered a friend.
A remarkable young lady with passions, interests, fears, dreams, and a story of her own.

-CARSONkg 

This is me

Yes,

This is me.

 

 You may ask

Am I a stocker?

Am I intentionally being creepy?

Do I have a gun under that coat?

Unfortunately, I can't offer that information.

If I did... never mind.  

What I can say is that boy is it fun to walk around looking like a "Gumshoe."

Very Dynamic.

  Very Observant. 

. . .

And definitely very cool.

Yes,

This is me. 

-CarsonKG 

The Destruction of Peoples: A parenting dillema

As we learn about past civilizations that have been completely destroyed, we ask ourselves how it could be. How can an entire race of people become extinct not by natural disaster, drastic climate change, dreaded illness, or by any other natural cause, but by their own wickedness and hate for each other. How can this happen, and who fault is it?

I was contemplating this thought earlier today and although I didn't find any sound, bullet-proof explanation, I did form a theory.

Let's use a Nephite People as our example.

After the visitation of Christ to the people of Nephi shortly after His death, the people became converted to His gospel and remained righteous for around 200 years. Imagine, 200 years without any wars or contention of any sort. So how within a single generation could they have gone from a flourishing zion-like people to heaps of drying bones strewn across the earth. Well the obvious reason is that they became prideful. But what is the source of this pride? Was it that they were wealthy? it could have been, and yet this pride was among all of them. Not just the rich. So there was obviously for to it then that.
Let's ask ourselves this question. When a parent tell their child to or to not do something, why does the child tend to turn away and disobey them? They are raised in ignorance, which turns to rebellion.

How often when a mother tells her child to do this or to not do this does the child respond "Why? What's the point?" and the mother replies because I know better then you. Children want answers. Children learn through receiving answers to their curious questions and the simple answer of "because I know more then you" doesn't cut it. How often in the latter end of those 200 years of peace do you think children would ask their parents why certain things were so and the parents responded "because I know what you don't." Probably fairly often. If a child is not taught why certain things are bad, then they often begin to wonder if they really are bad. They seek to appease their curiosity by dabbling in those very things they were warned against because they were raised in ignorance to good and bad. Not to reason behind good and bad.

As for rebellion:
Inside every human being is an inherent need to learn, grow and create, but how can we do these things without opposition? Opposition gives us purpose. A reason for doing and becoming. Something for us to fight against, to inspire us to become great.
We need this opposition and if it is not given us, we seek it out.

For the Nephites, they went through 200 years being taught to fight against the devil and to promote righteousness and peace among mankind. But what if after 200 years they began enjoying the peace so much that their soul focus was on goodness and they ceased to teach to fight against wickedness and furthermore, ceased to teach the types of wickedness which must be fought against?

The children would have grown up in ignorance as to the ways of the devil, knowing nothing but goodness.  Then the devil comes tempting. They suddenly realize this new way of being. This strange new way to life. They haven't been taught that this is the thing which must be fought against or even what the results of this way of life are. They have an intrinsic need to fight against something so they fight against the only thing they know. Righteousness.

They have found something new. Something in which one person can find competition. Something to fight for. A way to become something big and powerful. And so they discover pride, fight against themselves, and become the source of their own destruction because they were not taught what to fight against.

They were raised in ignorance to their questions and rebellion because of that ignorance.


Now, I do not know if this was the cause for the destruction of so many civilizations in our worlds history, but I do see how this is becoming the case in our own modern world. And it cannot be so.

-CarsonKG

"This one's for the Girls"

I don't know what it is about me, but little girls just tend to flock around me. Do girls my own age flock? No. But little girls (Mainly between the ages of 8 and 10) are always popping up out of nowhere and just tend to cling... and it always makes me smile!
These are some of the little girls who I've grown to love throughout my life and who have helped shape me:

Lydia 

{"Liddy-love"}

I waited for years for you to come. Now you're here. The girl I always loved.

Jaylin 

{"Pet"}

 I spent all summer with you tied to me or with you sitting on my shoulders. I watched you cry, hurt, smile, tease. Remember, "you are a princess!"

Cassidy 

{"Lady Cassy"}

 I've been at war with you longer then I've ever been with anyone else. But at least we can dance better then anyone else.

Amanda 

{"Cat-girl"}

 It took you two and-a-half years of you hissing at me when I came near you but now you purr when I pet your hair and love me carrying you around.

Sarah 

{"Sis"}

 I married your sister. She left me for my best friend. Then she spent a night letting her husband's servant boy play pranks on me in the woods. But you were there to keep me smiling the whole time.

You are only 5 out of a hundred, but you 5 have taught me so much about myself. I love you all. Some of you are my little sisters. Some of you are my little friends. One of you is my niece... kinda. But you are all my girls.

And I love you all.

-CarsonKG

The people who have shaped my life

I apologize for going almost a month without posting, but this past month ha been quite crazy. Thank you to those who gave suggestions for things for me to post about. I'll get to those. However, for a time, I would like to post about the people who have shaped my life. This will come kind of in a series and will include The young men, young women, little girls, mother and father figures and others who have shaped my life to help me become the person I am today and continue to help me as I become the person I one-day desire to be. I'll be posting about multiple people in various categories, about individuals with "letters" to them, and likely some general "thank you" notes to groups or individuals.

I hope you all enjoy this!

-Carsonkg