For A.L.
It's amazing sometimes where support comes from when it's needed most. A. is my friend, but not necessarily one I've been very close to and yet she's shown up in some form every single day to let me know she's here for me; she asks what I need and when it's something she can do, she does it. I'm feeling very, very blessed and so incredibly grateful.
Monday, May 7, 2012
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Day One Hundred & Eighty-Eight
For having a slumber party with S.R., complete with dinner, baking cookies, movie watching, and good conversation (including laughs and tears). It was one of the first times in a week I really feel like I've been able to truly breathe.
Saturday, May 5, 2012
Day One Hundred & Eighty-Seven
(Watch this first:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9NF2edxy-M
For finding something to laugh about:
http://youtu.be/NQTisKNnV7U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9NF2edxy-M
For finding something to laugh about:
http://youtu.be/NQTisKNnV7U
Friday, May 4, 2012
Day One Hundred & Eighty-Six
For...
Going to a Rockies game on an insanely beautiful night. The feeling of being part of a group of people, doing the same thing, focused on the same thing, just that feeling of being separate, but also part of something.
Going to a Rockies game on an insanely beautiful night. The feeling of being part of a group of people, doing the same thing, focused on the same thing, just that feeling of being separate, but also part of something.
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Day One Hundred & Eighty-Five
"Fairy tales are full of stories about the burden of gratitude borne toward one who has saved your life. The stories detail the lengths the saved will go to acknowledge that debt, for the saved know the fragility of what was nearly lost. The saved know the critical moment in which life becomes death, know that grace and courage must intercede forcefully because the water rushing over the cliff has tremendous momentum. The save know the value of the one who sees past good cheer, stops by once a day, offers a loan, blocks the blow. The saved know and can't express their gratitude adequately.
We are always saving one another. Sometimes we are aware of it; we notice the cost to our reserves even as we pay it. Other times we are unaware that we have grown wings, swooped someone from danger without ever glancing behind or feeling the weight of our temporary feathers. But the saved know, and so the stories accumulate...
Some acts can never be acknowledged adequately; they are gifts. It is these that stretch the hearts of the giver and the receiver, that call out for metaphor, for the stories and fables we read to our children as instruction. You will be called upon to give beyond your means, to sacrifice for others who may never know it was your lifeblood that revived their own. In this way, we humans become great. In this way, we understand love."
Patricia Weaver Francisco, Telling
We are always saving one another. Sometimes we are aware of it; we notice the cost to our reserves even as we pay it. Other times we are unaware that we have grown wings, swooped someone from danger without ever glancing behind or feeling the weight of our temporary feathers. But the saved know, and so the stories accumulate...
Some acts can never be acknowledged adequately; they are gifts. It is these that stretch the hearts of the giver and the receiver, that call out for metaphor, for the stories and fables we read to our children as instruction. You will be called upon to give beyond your means, to sacrifice for others who may never know it was your lifeblood that revived their own. In this way, we humans become great. In this way, we understand love."
Patricia Weaver Francisco, Telling
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
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