August 2010
7 posts
“So, friends, let us not hesitate, but leap into the unknown…
Pack up...”
– from a girl that i lived with one summer.
journal entry from junior year of highschool.
“Teach me that I am finite. Carve it into my soul so I remember it—into my heart every time it breaks. Beat it into my feet every time they cramp up when I’m running beaches, into every vertebra of my spine so that i know it every time I stand on tiptoe and stretch up to hug a friend.
Why do people only pay respects to the dead? We, so full of life, so ready for adventure, our...
one year later.
I’m in a different place than I was 365 days ago. well, I am in the same place. but my heart has changed.
today was a beautiful day. it was filled with beautiful things.
this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbQBEHCEDfQ . It’s called “The Wedding Song” by Angus & Julia Stone.
Also: paper pinwheels. I have made a dozen of them in the past few days.
Also...
“We who try our best to live, why do we not live more?”
– Van Gogh
Just give me a minute.
“The little cracks, they escalated And before you know it, it’s too late For making circles and telling lies
You’re moving too fast for me And I can’t keep up with you Maybe if you’d slowed down for me I could see you’re only telling lies, lies, lies Breaking us down with your lies, lies, lies When will you learn?”
-The Swell Season
Mmhmm.
psalm 36:5
“Your steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds.”
What is the measure of strength today?
I will spend this week, like this past weekend, in the hospital waiting room. It is a microcosm of the broken world we live in. Doctors struggle to understand what is happening to my grandmother’s broken body; we struggle on our knees and lean against one another’s shoulders; the staff struggles to be patient as all 10 of us Meyers & Forsythes filter in and out of Nana’s...