For You.There are then, the days where you are empty. Sometimes I write all the beauty and fluff out of my life, gushing out what is great then I'm left with the void afterwords. I had a one of those days recently, I felt like a failure for reasons most wouldn't understand. A friend called later and we decided a walk would be just the ticket. Pouring out the waterfall of thoughts kept pinned back, … [Read more...]
Easter! (Videos!)
April 13, 2009 by · 1 Comment
Easter bunnies, candy filled eggs, sugar highs and the subsequent cranky crash, decorative baskets filled with fake shimmery grass... ah, the spirit of Easter! Can you sense my sarcasm or do you really think that is what I think Easter is about? I think that I didn't pay enough attention at church however, so that was sadly pretty much what my Easter was about. I should have put Summit in … [Read more...]
I know her
March 22, 2009 by · 3 Comments
I knew her. I didn't actually know her, know her, but the little girl who must have been about 5 or 6 was very familiar to me. She looked at me with curious eyes, I must have seemed strange even for a stranger, staring so intently into her open face. My heart hammered from the combination of sudden adrenaline and the caffeine I had just consumed. I wanted so badly to go over to the father … [Read more...]
like an alarm…
February 6, 2009 by · Leave a Comment
The other day Ben was scrolling through all of these noises on a sleep machine application for his iphone. There was the white noise, jungle, rain, etc. He settled on one that created the imagery of a perfect day: a slight white/traffic noise in the background with an occasional bird chirping, etc. It made me think of a beautiful sunny day at the park in the early spring. Today, it was that day. … [Read more...]