Scott Faris
Posted Mon Sep 3, 2007 in
Music
I good friend of mine and one of the best guitar players I’ve ever known now has a new web site. Over the nearly fourteen years I knew Scott, he was forever the upbeat, positive individual I’ve tried to be. I had the pleasure of watching him grow over the years, and grow he has.
He recently decided to give up the traditional path and return to his art and music. I admire Scott for that and pray all of God’s blessings on him for his success, however he chooses to measure it. For Scott and Amy, the journey is more important than the destination. They determined to take the path that leads them through their art and music when most of us would opt for the more financially-successful route. I deeply admire them for their decisions.
If you get the chance, visit Scott’s site. It’s worth reading his words.
Each individual human being possesses a unique, highly developed, and sensitive perception of variety. Thus aware, man is endowed with a natural capability for enact- ing internal mental and external physical selectivity. Quantitative and qualitative choice-making thus lends itself as the superior basis of an active intelligence.
Human is earth’s Choicemaker. His title describes his definitive and typifying characteristic. Recall that his other features are but vehicles of experi- ence intent on the development of perceptive awareness and the following acts of decision and choice. Note that the products of man cannot define him for they are the fruit of the discerning choice- making process and include the cognition of self, the utility of experience, the development of value- measuring systems and language, and the accultur- ation of civilization. The arts and the sciences of man, as with his habits, customs, and traditions, are the creative harvest of his perceptive and selective powers. Creativity, the creative process, is a choice-making process. His articles, constructs, and commodities, however marvelous to behold, deserve neither awe nor idol- atry, for man, not his contrivance, is earth’s own highest expression of the creative process. Human is earth’s Choicemaker. The sublime and significant act of choosing is, itself, the Archimedean fulcrum upon which man levers and redirects the forces of cause and effect to an elected level of qual- ity and diversity. Further, it orients him toward a natural environmental opportunity, freedom, and bestows earth’s title, The Choicemaker, on his singular and plural brow. That human institution which is structured on the principle, “...all men are endowed by their Creator with ...Liberty…,” is a system with its roots in the natural Order of the universe. The opponents of such a system are necessarily engaged in a losing contest with nature and nature’s God. Biblical principles are still today the foundation under Western Civilization and the American way of life. To the advent of a new season we commend the present generation and the “multitudes in the valley of decision.” Let us proclaim it. Behold! The Season of Generation-Choicemaker Joel 3:14 KJV http://www.choicemaker.net/ — Jim Baxter 6 September 2007, 15:00 #Thank you so much, Dave. You have always been so inspiring and encouraging to me. So you know, the studio is doing well and we’re not starving (which, of course, was a great fear in taking this leap). Thanks so much for your well-wishes and prayers. They certainly are returned.
Scott
— Scott Faris 29 September 2007, 19:42 #My pleasure, sir!
— ruminator 30 September 2007, 05:28 #