Waiting Hard

A  L  O  H  A !

 " I have always, essentially, 

been waiting. 

Waiting to become 

something else, waiting

 to be that person 

I always thought

 I was on the verge of becoming, 

waiting for that life 

I thought I would have. . .

In my head, 

I was always 

one step away. 

In high school, 

I was biding my time 

until I could become 

the college version of myself, 

the one my mind could see so clearly. 

In college, the post-college 

“adult” person was 

always looming in front 

of me, smarter, stronger, 

more organized. 

Then the married person, 

then the person I’d become 

when we have kids. . .

" I love movies about 

“The Big Moment” – the game or

 the performance or 

the wedding day or 

the record deal,

 the stories that split time 

with that key event, and 

everything is reframed, 

" John Lennon once said, 

“Life is what happens 

when you’re busy 

making other plans.” 

The Big Moment, unfortunately, 

is an urban myth.

Life is a collection of 

a million, billion moments, 

tiny little moments and choices, 

like a handful of luminous, 

glowing pearls. It takes 

so much time, and 

so much work. . .

Linking to

Good Fences

"- But this is what I’m finding, 

in glimpses and flashes: 

this is it.. . .This is it. 

Normal, daily life ticking 

by on our streets and sidewalks, 

in our houses and apartments, 

in our beds and at our dinner tables, 

in our dreams and prayers 

and fights and secrets – 

this pedestrian life is 

the most precious thing 

any of use will ever experience.” 

                                 Shauna Niequist, 

                         Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the
                         Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life

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Thank YOU

for Waiting

Together!

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