Tuesday, July 04, 2006

I am not yet moved into the new old house, this is what happens when you add two new bathrooms and a kitchen, this is what happens when your contractor flushes paper towels down the toilet and causes the sewage system to explode.

I’m not very exciting. I’m saving you people pain. I am however alive—not writing but alive. Last week was the first week of programming and I had an art budget for 45 kids and 53 showed up. It was a hell of more stilts and paint but worth it.

I use to be a missionary, a wife, a teacher…now I am an art director, a lover, a writer. I have lost nothing. I am still all those other things. When I was talking with Liz the other day, she said this is what it means to get old, sometimes you hold less in your hand but it is always open b/c you understand you actually hold nothing. It is the still under the stream, watching the river move.

This is my hand. Here is my life.

5 comments:

Radish King said...
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burning moon said...

Yeah, this is what I come here for. The chocolate cookie at the bottom of the jar of plain biscuits.

this is what it means to get old, sometimes you hold less in your hand but it is always open b/c you understand you actually hold nothing. It is the still under the stream, watching the river move.

Sheryl said...

What a great entry! Thanks!

early hours of sky said...

Thank you moon

and Sheryl I thought your book was wonderful.

Lisa Cohen said...

"I have lost nothing. I am still all those other things.

Yes. Thank you for the reminder.

xo
lj