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
"- 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 theExtraordinary Nature of Everyday Life
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Thank YOU
for Waiting
Together!
cloudia
