Aaron Harp

a few songs for christmas

Every year as this season rolls around I usually give in to the Christmas spirit and end up recording a song or two. Here are the songs I've recorded the last few years. A few of them have been up on my music player, but 'O Come, O Come Emmanuel' is right off the reel.

• O Come, O Come Emmanuel
• Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
• The Christmas Song
• God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

Oh, and I also added a few photo albums of pictures that I took for my photography class in Austria.

Merry Christmas!

we await

After not touching my face with any sort of sharp object for almost two months, I am finally realizing that things are getting a bit out of control. Mom the guy standing in the airport on the 17th that looks like he's been living in the mountains for two months is me. Don't be scared, you can take me home.

A few short lists before my return:

Things I will miss:
• Being able to ride a bicycle anywhere
• Sunday afternoons in the garden or in the mountains
• Having very little to do and being able to breathe deeply
• Speckwurst (sausage filled with cheese and wrapped in bacon = wunderbar!)
• The abundance of music
• Hanging out with Sammy and the other dear friends I've made
• Having my laundry done for me

Things I miss:
• Family and friends
• Cruising around, indulging myself with music
• Sitting at Barnes and Noble for hours
• Not having to pay at least 30% more for everything
• Oddly enough, Arkadelphia
• Being able to communicate with everyone
• EDIT: Dr. Pepper

In these days as we anticipate the birth of our Savior, may we allow ourselves to be overcome by the implications of the Incarnation.

This was written outside a church and it echoed in my soul:
Mein Vater, ich verstehe Dich nicht, aber ich vertraue Dir.

a hazy shade of winter

My blogging infrequency has been steadily increasing. I just haven't had too much to say as of late. By the way, thanks for the book suggestions. I have my reading lined up for the next little bit. Now I just need a Barnes and Noble.

Something's definitely wrong if there's snow (well, ice) in Texas and we're still above freezing here in Austria. Oh what a world. It needs to hurry up and snow so that I can go skiing before I leave.

Well my time here's coming to a close. I have two more weeks left and then after an extremely long day of traveling, I'll be home. It's sad, but I'm getting ready to be back.

Tonight I'm going to the Krampus run. I'd try to explain it, but there's no way to. I'll just say that last Saturday I got whipped by a Krampus and it hurt extremely bad.

Bis bald.