Splash of much-needed real life...
It was a bit like an anti-Twilight Zone.
A staggered summary of the last nine hours:
On my way to Aubrey, I passed a billboard that said, "What good is medicine without faith?" For once, rather than immediately starting to answer the question, my mind was completely unified in a single "WTF?" Do people really need to *ask* this question? o-8
My cousins Cole and Cade are now 11 and 10 years old, respectively. Cade is in middle school, and both are playing tackle football. My cousin Cali is almost two - and this is the first time I've met her, despite living half an hour away. She is adorable, apparently as precocious as the age suggests, and well ahead of the learning curve for her age. Cade apparently remembered my wedding in their home, though his older brother Cole didn't.
I met another dog I scare. Maybe I've just lost any knack I once had with animals. :-D
I saw a moment on Fraggle Rock where a character used the word "gratifying." Do kids' shows even use four-syllable words any more?
I didn't realize that an elementary school football game could be so riveting. Half the team out sick, kids in positions they hadn't played much before, home team down 12 - 0 at one point in the game... Four touch-downs and several interceptions (and near-interceptions) later, they took the game 20-18.
I had excellent shepherd's pie at a spiffy little restaurant in Aubrey. My uncle used the word "winningest" and I grinned at it while Cali made faces at the orange peel she kept accidentally biting into.
The season premiere of SNL was less than hilarious, though it had its moments.
The last two songs before I got out of my car:
"So damn easy to say that life's so hard...
Everybody's got their share of battle scars.
As for me, I'd like to thank my lucky stars
That I'm alive and well.
It'd be easy to add up all the pain
And all the dreams you sat and watched go up in flames,
Dwell on the wreckage as it smolders in the rain...
But not me, I'm alive.
And today, you know, that's good enough for me.
Breathin' in and out's a blessing, can't you see?
Today's the first day of the rest of my life,
And I'm alive and well.
I'm alive and well."
"The South moves North, the North moves South,
a star is born, a star burns out.
The only thing that stays the same is:
everything changes. Everything changes."
...and time marches on.
A staggered summary of the last nine hours:
On my way to Aubrey, I passed a billboard that said, "What good is medicine without faith?" For once, rather than immediately starting to answer the question, my mind was completely unified in a single "WTF?" Do people really need to *ask* this question? o-8
My cousins Cole and Cade are now 11 and 10 years old, respectively. Cade is in middle school, and both are playing tackle football. My cousin Cali is almost two - and this is the first time I've met her, despite living half an hour away. She is adorable, apparently as precocious as the age suggests, and well ahead of the learning curve for her age. Cade apparently remembered my wedding in their home, though his older brother Cole didn't.
I met another dog I scare. Maybe I've just lost any knack I once had with animals. :-D
I saw a moment on Fraggle Rock where a character used the word "gratifying." Do kids' shows even use four-syllable words any more?
I didn't realize that an elementary school football game could be so riveting. Half the team out sick, kids in positions they hadn't played much before, home team down 12 - 0 at one point in the game... Four touch-downs and several interceptions (and near-interceptions) later, they took the game 20-18.
I had excellent shepherd's pie at a spiffy little restaurant in Aubrey. My uncle used the word "winningest" and I grinned at it while Cali made faces at the orange peel she kept accidentally biting into.
The season premiere of SNL was less than hilarious, though it had its moments.
The last two songs before I got out of my car:
"So damn easy to say that life's so hard...
Everybody's got their share of battle scars.
As for me, I'd like to thank my lucky stars
That I'm alive and well.
It'd be easy to add up all the pain
And all the dreams you sat and watched go up in flames,
Dwell on the wreckage as it smolders in the rain...
But not me, I'm alive.
And today, you know, that's good enough for me.
Breathin' in and out's a blessing, can't you see?
Today's the first day of the rest of my life,
And I'm alive and well.
I'm alive and well."
"The South moves North, the North moves South,
a star is born, a star burns out.
The only thing that stays the same is:
everything changes. Everything changes."
...and time marches on.