Yesterday morning at Starbucks was a good one. You were missed deeply and spoken of with affection.
I was talking with our friend at Starbucks (code for the third member of the band) and he was telling me some things that happened over the Holidays. He was discussing some concerns about raising his kids and his staying caught up at his workplace and how he was wanting more from his marriage and some of the things he was afraid of. I sat there thinking of a feeling and a question. I listened to him, and to the song that was playing through the speakers overhead. When I asked him how all of these things made him feel, he said, "Lonely and alone." We talked for quite a while and I channeled you and Yoda as best I could. I saw JCJ at Sunday School and I could tell just from his face that something had changed for the better for him, a peace.
So I looked up the song that had been playing at Starbucks (I love the Shazam app) and here it is.
And then...
Yesterday with Holly and the boys, and neighbors and Sam Cribbs and Lego, and Mario and football games on TV and in the back yard, and disagreements and hurt feelings and winners and losers and growing up and asking forgiveness and forgiving and great big group hugs was really good.
Today, I am grateful. And ok with just being here, now. It is an amazing thing, when it happens, a real gift. I hope you receive something today that you call a gift.
Things of note:
1. Amy is seeing Yoda, today. (Yes!)
2. Saturday we leave for a week in Hawaii. We are taking the boys out of school again this year. I am glad we are.
3.My friend Smooth, got a job!
He will be teaching at a med school and he seamed soo happy when I spoke with him over the Holidays.
4.My friend Matt Yoder, a buddy of mine at Butler, who works at a school for troubled teens in the Dominican Republic called me yesterday and asked me to be in his wedding! He has been through a bunch and I am beyond happy for his news.
Finally, for whatever reason... this is what I listened to in the car this morning... Best with headphones for language and for effect.
There's so much to tell you, so little time.
I've come a long way since the whatever,
shit, I still see a word, think of you.
There is so much that I can't do, yeah.
You will be young forever.
There's so much that I can't do.
There is so much that I can't do.
I've come a long way since the whatever,
shit, I still see a word, think of you.
There is so much that I can't do, yeah.
You will be young forever.
There's so much that I can't do.
There is so much that I can't do.
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