As i sit here writing, drums are being tracked, (loudly, i might add) in the room next to me for one of our instrumental tracks, so please excuse my somewhat jumbled thoughts. The days have flown by but we’re making progress. We’d pretty much finished up the luminous chore of scratch tracking everything when we stumbled upon another handful of older songs that, we’ve all decided, HAVE to be on the record. So, tomorrow holds promise of yet more scratch recording! Woohoo!

One of the banks house roommates happens to be a woodworking mad-man and, to our great delight, decided he needed a project and built an absolutely GORGEOUS desk for the studio. We all cant help but take a few moments out of each day to sit and admire Spencer’s handiwork. I think i speak for everyone when i say its made it easier and more enjoyable to be in there for hours on end!

I realize more and more each day how this project is so much bigger than any of us. Not just on a practical level but also in the grand scheme of things. It goes beyond just tracking and recording sounds and melodies, it’s a journey of community living and relational differences being worked out…really learning how to love and serve one another.

Never in my life have I embarked on such a journey and im loving every second of it.

andrea