Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers

So I was working at the Mile High Music Festival this summer when I heard this band "Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers" for the first time. I really liked them, and it's where the name of my blog comes from. If I were a savvier blogger, I would like to have the song be playing in the background when you (and I don't know who "you" would be since I've only told one person about this blog) came to the page. The other half of that line is "This is my life, it isn't much, but at least it's mine." For some reason that really resonnated with me.

I've decided that I'm going to take a stab at actually updating this thing more regularly. I am not really sure where to start, but I saw Les Miserables last night at this little theater and it was really great, but it also kind of depressed me. I couldn't help but compare my own life to the life of Jean Val Jean, and I just kept asking myself what good have I done in the world? Val Jean changed lives again and again. After he is "redeemed," everyone he interacts with is powerfully changed or saved in some way, and I just keep asking myself what I have done that even comes close. I felt the same way when I saw the movie "Amazing Grace" which is about the guy that helped end the slave trade. What truly great or meaningful thing have I done? I don't even think that I need to do something of great notoriety, but I do feel that need to make my life one filled with goodness and self-sacrifice like Val Jean. In the end, however, I felt more resolved to do better with my life rather than despondent that I haven't done more.