Who Is This 'Kin' Guy Anyway?

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Hey everyone. I'm back, and I'm more dangerous than ever. I had a great time at Veritas this last week. I learned a lot. If you want to know what I learned, you'll have to just get in contact with me. You know, give me the light of day. 'Cause in order to tell you what I've learned, it would take more time and energy than I have right now. What I can tell you is this; I realized that my identity is in Christ. I knew this before Veritas, but it was at Veritas that it became real to me. I started thinking about how I live, and where I tend to place my identity. Long story short, my life is in Christ.

*Hi! I'm an adopted child of the one true God. But most people call me Kin.*

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Umm, hello. My name is Kin. I like fast cars and long walks off short piers. If I were an animal, I would be an iguana, 'cause that's what I guana be. My imaginary friend is a wallaby. For those of you who don't know, wallabies are kind of like kangaroos, only smaller. And that's why God gave us toes.

'Nough said.
So here I am in the middle of week...three...--I think--...of my Summer. So far I have done about half of the things that I wanted to do coming into this Summer...only not. I did get to finally go to the elusive 'Buck Lake'. I've been wanting to go there ever since a certain friend told me about it a year ago. It's a really beautiful place out in the woods far, far away from human civilization.
Next week I'll be leaving for Summer Seminary. Thursday the 6th. Gone. Bye bye. Adios...But I'll be back on the 15th.

Sun Screen *Check*, Towel *Check*, Brain...Uh Oh.

I'm not so sure that this summer will be as exciting as last year. I know that I was gone a lot last summer, so every time I posted I had had plenty of time to gain lots of great blogging material (though, I think I forgot most of it by the time I got to the computer ;-).
Well, this summer I am not going to be 'gone' quite as much. The only two times that I yet know of when I will be gone for extended periods of time are:

July 6-15: summer seminary
August (I don't know the exact dates, but it's like the last full week of August): family vacation

The rest of the time I'll be around...somewhere. :-D
As for now, I'm a little out of it. I've got a few things on my mind. This will be a long-but-too-short-very-interesting-very-boring-hard-work-easy-slacking summer. Pray for me. Laters.

Has Anyone Seen My Keys?

It would appear as though I am all too busy these days with everything I have had on my plate. The evidence of this can be seen in the lack of new postidge on my blog. My last post was two weeks ago yesterday. Allow me to explain what all has been going on in that time.
First of all I had Spring Fling rehearsals and performances. Rehearsals were everyday after school. It was a little crazy, and I was glad that I didn't have that much home work to do at the time. Then came the performances on the 1st and 2nd of June. I had a solo that I biffed in two places both nights. Though each night it was two different places. In spite of those little mishaps, however, everyone loved it. All in all the whole Spring Fling was really great. I had fun with it. My fifth and final Spring Fling. The theme, by the way, was 20th century celebration. We did music from every decade. Good times.
Another thing that has had me on my toes these past couple weeks was finals. I'm finally done with school for the year, and I'm completely done with high school for the rest of my life.
The last thing that has been occupying my time was the Senior trip I went on with the other seniors from my church. We got back yesterday. Sun River was our vacation spot. We went white-water rafting, mountain-biking, and swimming. We hung out and played games (settlers of Catan.) It was a really fun trip.
NOW, I'm home, and my Summer of labor and toil has begun before I go off to start the strenuous four years of college that stand before me. Exciting, eh? Laters.

Time&Place

This is a poem I wrote a while back. I found it while going through one of my journals.

I only wish that for the moment

I could find a time and place

Of peace; tranquility; un-disturbed.

If but for time, I have no place,

And in place lack time.

Passing by the places I see--

Full of joy

And pleasant memories--

I find that time is stretched too thin.

I can recall the times in past

When place and time were always present.

In my youth I always found

The clock to please

And land to satisfy.

What wondrous places

And endless time;

My greatest friends in life.

I had no need for other company;

All was there as I had need.

But time is lost,

And I am here.

Were I there

With time to spend,

I would not pine

For such small things.

As it is

I am content.

Copyright Kin Butler 2006

Mind If I Sit Here?

IF there were a word to describe this it would probably be most appropriate right now.

Schools coming to a close. Now that I think about it, I was a jerk last year to all the seniors who read my blog. I put the school days count down at the end of each post. Now I understand what it is to be a senior coming up to the end of high school. Every time someone mentions the number of days left till it's all over I say "Don't talk about that." So, I will say right now, sorry to any seniors I may have tormented last year with my silly little count down.

In other news, spring fling is coming along. Slowly but surely we're getting there. Next week we will have rehearsals every day after school 'till 4:30. Ugh! Oh well, at least by that time I should be done with these huge projects I have over my head as we speak... er... as I speak... or type... whatever. The point is I have a fifty texts project due on Monday. That is 25 short stories and 25 poems read and written about. We don't have to write anything long or terribly deep unless we want to. But it does take time to write them up. This is probably the most time consuming project I have ever had. I've got 17 short stories read and written up so far. I have 8 more of those to go, and then the 25 poems. The poems will take less time to read, but they still will take some time to write up. It's not easy coming up with an opinion and analysis on everything.
The other project I have due on Monday is my comparison shopping report. I've done just about all of the research already. Now I just need to type up all of the information and hope that it's good enough to get me an A.

But after those are done I'm pretty much sailing free. Sure, I'll have work to do, but it won't be anything compared to those projects.


School days left: 8
Underclassmen count: 14 hehehe :-D

"And The Winner Is..."

I was working on my senior project for high school (aka the X-Project) and I needed some pictures to use in my presentation. So I emailed a bunch of people from this summer program that I was in (Summer Seminary, you might remember me writing about it a while back) to get some pictures for my presentation. I told them that I would post the top three pictures on my blog as the final results for this faux competition. So here are the results.



1st Place

This is a group of people hangin' out in their ever so stylish 'Veritas' shirts
~Photo sent in by Jasmine





2nd Place

White water rafting (it's a team building thing at the start of Veritas)
~Photo sent in by Jasmine (only two people actually sent me photos)



Last...I mean...3rd place

This is "Tim the Tiger", and he is wearing his party shirt (which he wears a lot of the time)
~Photo sent in by 'Tim the Tiger'



I would like to thank you two for sending in your pictures (even if I wasn't able to use yours anywhere in my presentation, Tim). And I would like to thank those of you who responded even though you didn't have any pictures to send. God bless.