new.

a lot has happened since my last post.

brian graduated.

we found out we are not going to amsterdam this fall. (its still a maybe -hopefully for the near future in our minds...)

i left my job.

we are moving to brooklyn in two weeks.

we have been interviewing for jobs, looking for apartments and trying to just go with it.

brian has been at a residency in vermont, and i have been visiting on the weekends.

oh man. lots o stuff!

i will post some pictures and let you know some more details soon. next time from brooklyn! holla. :)

Pollifax Music Videos!

Please check out the following link to the music collaboration I did with Pollifax in New Brunswick a few weeks ago!

http://www.pollifax.com/020_Lorah_L_S_Campbell.html

march madness!

oh my goodness. so many things are happening.

and not happening...

we have had three groups of visitors since my last post. Suuuper fun. let me just say that you can't get much better then having people that you love continually come to see you and then having a BLAST with them in the best city in the world. can't beat that really. nope.

brian had his thesis show. it was up (and post yesterday) is down. the picture above is his AMAZING UNBELIEVABLE SPECTACULAR drawing called "the complex". and those adorable children are the twins (leorah and isaiah) of our dear friends the roebers. oh how we love that family. so proud of mr. campbell. i wish everyone could have seen this in person. it's completely mind blowing.

so our life is seemingly full to the brim with happenings and responsibility and joy and most other things you could imagine. well, maybe that's too far. but its really really good and rich and really demanding. let's put it that way.

and meanwhile, behind the scenes there is something brewing. and we are still waiting to see what that is. and might i say, getting a bit impatient. i mean, we are potentially moving back to ohio in less then three months to potentially be moving to another country in two...but we don't know for sure yet...what the *%#@ is that?

things have been so busy in our world. we feel like we are juggling more than ever! and we don't even have kids! :) me oh my....

we have been trying to engage with this Lenten season in a new way. we feel there is a never ending list of things to pray/think about / dwell in...sometimes i wonder if we are meant to have those disappear-into-a-forest-or-desert-times-to-be-refined-and-pray-about-the-gazillion-things-you-always-intend-to-cover-in-prayer-but-can't-seem-to-find-the-time-to-engage-with-in-the-way-you-want-or-feel-is-necessary....

~sigh~ i promise there will be more to come. lots more. :)

music video for "glow"

even though we are going to reshoot the pollifax videos i was collaborating on, this was one that turned out from our session in january. it was shot by kevin de wilde, and turned out great, i think!

http://vimeo.com/9518376

underneath things

underneath things we are all pretty fragile. in some sense at least.

there are those certain people or ideas or dreams that really get to you. every time. especially when it all comes down.

i have been having those things pressed upon, shaped and challenged a lot lately in me. i entered 2010 with thoughts and worries whirling around in a constant cloud instead of enjoying the ambiguity of what could happen. instead of dreaming and trusting and soaking in the presence that is always promised to me. i (sadly) do that most of the time when it comes down to it...at least about the things that are most dear to me.

so being challenged is good, because i need to grow up in that area, right?

but as always, He has proved Himself faithful and continues to lift those weights off of me, and the veil comes off and i realize how much time i waste in anxiety. because He is good. all the time. all of the time He is good.

in between and within those thoughts, quite a few things have been happening. brian puts up his thesis show next week! i cannot believe that time is here. we have officially been in new jersey for a year and a half and one of the culminating things of our time here is now occurring.

so exciting! you would not believe these drawings. they are unreal. literally. i wish that everyone could be at this opening on march 3rd. i am so proud of brian and so excited for everyone to see his work.

music is going well in my life, which continues to be a huge blessing. my kiddos at work are getting bigger and i learn form them most every day. we got news that brian is in the final 20 for the fulbright grant we applied to for amsterdam. he has now officially finished applying for all residencies and grants (at least until he graduates).

so the cards are on the table and we are just waiting.

instead of being anxious and doubting what He will provide for us, i am trying (sometimes in skipping steps, sometimes in heavy, slow ones) to remember what He has done. He has done more in our short lives then we could have ever imagined. He is better and more generous then we could ever be. and whenever i remind myself of those things, i simply cannot wait to see what He is going to do in the next few months. underneath, and all around.

(the pictures are from brian's birthday, one of my little girls enjoying painting with chocolate and a new drawing.)

also here is a link to some of my songs:

http://www.ilike.com/artist/Lorah+Campbell

music site and other updates!

holey moley, it's been too long!

i cannot believe december came and went and now we are in 2010.

crazy.

first things first. i have FINALLY made a facebook music page. and i am really proud of its content. :)

brian and i even took pictures on a snowy day in the park for it. (we wanted some visual imagery to go alongside the sonic) it was fun. and i am pretty excited. its funny how something like this gets you more inspired and engaged to create. but that is exactly what it does.

and here is the link:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lorah-L-S-Campbell/230309442181?ref=ts

please check it out and let me know what you think. i am always wanting feedback.

and i am hoping to be adding/ changing things regularly. and am also hoping to play out around here once and awhile!

so there are lots of things flying around in my head and in life right now.

in short here are some happenings and to be's:

1. i've been making some new friends (to add to the ones who are already marvelously and richly in my life). it has been such a blessing. god has placed each person in my life to add such depth and color to the world around me and i am super grateful. coffee, thrifting, mexican food, music...lots of talking and laughing. if i could only bridge all of these people in my heart to one another...and then connect everyone in one physical place. that would be a dream.

2. we've had more visitors and there are more to come this year! it is so marvelous. i am going to sit down and reminisce about everyone that has made the journey here one day...

i told brian today that we need to always live in a place people want to come to. we both think the number of visits would decrease rapidly if we lived in... lets say omaha...or maybe santa claus, indiana...

i mean, we know our friends love us, but who wants to come to dryersville, iowa? ha. :)

3. christmas. ah, the joy of christmas. we always feel like we rush it a bit too much. and we wish we spent more time with the One who matters most of all...but this christmas was still wonderful. we loved seeing our fam and friends in ohio and spending time with ones here. we had luxurious meals and extended hang outs with refreshing people.

(by the way my kids at kinderprep missed me a ton over xmas break. i heard that they kept asking their moms to call me to set-up a play-date with me during the two weeks we were off. super cute, right?)

4. brian is wonderful. and fabulous and fun and just nice. all the time. (well most all of the time)

i had great time with him during the past month. and he helps me and encourages me in most everything i do and think about. he is the best blessing of 2009. and of my life in general.

all of which which brings me to this thought:

brian graduates in 5 months.

which means we are up in the air about what we are doing after in about 6 months. we have a ton of "we hope" and "we pray" and "that would be so awesome we can't even fathom" its. but we are just waiting. and praying. and working our tails off (brian especially with his thesis and everything) to try to get something to work out.

if you are the praying kind, please pray about that. that would be much appreciated.

but things are good and i am anticipating the things to come. (usually with excitement and thankfulness. sometimes with anxiety. what are you gonna do?)

:)