There were kids in costumes but i felt far from them. They were dressed for a party but i was in line for something like a funeral. The posters said "Batman" but i was in line to say some strange goodbye to a guy i never met.

i remember the night that Heath Ledger died in New York City. Some friends of mine were playing Scrabble a few blocks away. Josh is one of my best friends and his wife Amy is kind. Their apartment is warm and they fill it with music and the Scrabble is simply a means to laughter. i remember thinking and wishing that Heath Ledger could have somehow found his way to Josh and Amy's apartment that night. Maybe that's a weird thought but it was simply the possibility that he would have been less alone, that he might have found a friend or been surprised by laughter...

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Hey Guys.

We made a new friend when we were in the U.K. with The Rocket Summer earlier this year. His name is Luis, he's from Dallas, and he makes electronic pop music as "The Secret Handshake". This music causes people to smile and dance.

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Hey friends!
I'm sitting outside of starbucks in Winter Park right now
and I just wanted to take a moment to share some exciting things with
you. 

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Hey Guys.

For the last year, we've been sending money to the Kristin Brooks Hope Center, which is also known as Hopeline and 1-800-SUICIDE. It's been far from a one-sided relationship. These guys have helped us provide suicide prevention training to our entire team, including all of our volunteers. They have shared everything from ideas and information to struggles and dreams, and they've become friends in the process.

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The new song on our page is called "Disappear". Our friends in Anberlin posted it a couple hours ago. (They also updated their MySpace so everything is green and orange and awesome now.) The Anberlin guys are pretty much family to us - i was thinking about this yesterday standing with a bunch of folks from our team, watching the guys play Main Stage at Warped in Orlando... i've known Stephen and Deon since days before Anberlin (We're all from Florida. It's a long story and it's pretty funny but it's better when Stephen tells it.)

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Hey Guys.

We are really excited about how things are going with Hot Topic. We've heard from so many kind people on their team - folks who work in their stores and managers and even their CEO. (Her name is Betsy and we've kinda become buddies) Their people have been hugely supportive and that's really meant a lot to us.

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Renee has been doing some writing on the TWLOHA Street Team page.
She has a gift and we're excited to be able to share some of that with you.
More coming very soon.

From Renee:
I just wrote five paragraphs about hope, and I also just deleted them all a million times faster than it took me to write them. I deleted them because I think there is something underneath hope. There is something that feeds it, and keeps it alive, and perpetuates it. I believe that everything is undeniably intertwined, such as purpose, hope, love, redemption and healing...specifically those things, are on my heart tonight...

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Hey Guys.

First off, thanks for the response to that last blog. It's been really cool to read through the comments and see so many different kinds of answers. i hope you enjoyed wrestling with that question. It was asked with Cornerstone (Festival) in mind - my time on stage between The Almost and Anberlin, an attempt to invite you guys into the process. But more importantly, i think it's a good one for all of us to think about as it's less about the stage and more about how we want to live, what we want our lives to say.

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If you had ten minutes to talk to ten thousand people, what would you say?

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