There is faith, hope and love, but the Greatest of these is Love.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
There's No Self Study Like Spenting Time with Your Parents
It's true that one of the best ways to learn about yourself is to really get to know those two people that bore
you. There's no substitute for this. Thankfully it was designed that way (and we still try to find other ways to replace it due to human nature's tendency not to face itself). I say this with a large dose of humor, not with pain or self recrimination. It's good to heal that familial circle if at all possible. Take the leap, be vulnerable and go for it.
I am happy to be who I am, but I am still discovering truths about myself everyday that must be faced if I am to continue growing as an adult human being, father, and partner. There's a Gem beyond comparison in sharing this with my father. I am Really Happy to say that I can do that. There's a welcoming openess in our relationship that I am so thankful for...So thankful for. This kind of thing can't be forced, or duplicated, yet many of us just allow the distance to remain perhaps feeling the chasm between us and a true heart felt relationship with our parents to be to large to cross without a measurable amount of work. Perhaps we are right, but even if we are we can still put one foot in front of the other and begin the Journey. We certainly will not get there by doing nothing. I believe that in life the rewards of surmounting a challenge are comensurate to the effort that the challenge requires. There is no substitution for a True, Loving Friendship with your parents. Those that have them know this.
The healing may take more on your part. It's worth it. What you may receive will overshadow any inclination of imbalance of initiative. Most of what disturbs us about our parents (unless you are one of those with no conflict) are attributes that we ourselves possess or have worked Really hard not to. In any case it's a win-win no matter how you slice it AND a pristine mirror.
Raising a child of your own is like the other end of developing a real relationship with your parents. For me, it's kind of like standing in the middle of two mirrors facing each other. It gets kind of 'hot', but it's a wholistic, self evolving, transforming 'heat' with Beauty and Love at it's Core. All good.
Relationships take work, especially where there is history, blood family or otherwise. They take an investment of yourself: your energy, your time, your vulnerability, and your honesty, but when they're the Real Deal they Give you what Nothing else in Life can-- Wholeness, Completeness, and a One of a Kind Love. Folks, It's What We Live For. It's one thing to read it on a page, but experiencing it for yourself?.....Well,....it turns it all GOLD. There is faith, hope and love, but the Greatest of these is Love.
you. There's no substitute for this. Thankfully it was designed that way (and we still try to find other ways to replace it due to human nature's tendency not to face itself). I say this with a large dose of humor, not with pain or self recrimination. It's good to heal that familial circle if at all possible. Take the leap, be vulnerable and go for it.
I am happy to be who I am, but I am still discovering truths about myself everyday that must be faced if I am to continue growing as an adult human being, father, and partner. There's a Gem beyond comparison in sharing this with my father. I am Really Happy to say that I can do that. There's a welcoming openess in our relationship that I am so thankful for...So thankful for. This kind of thing can't be forced, or duplicated, yet many of us just allow the distance to remain perhaps feeling the chasm between us and a true heart felt relationship with our parents to be to large to cross without a measurable amount of work. Perhaps we are right, but even if we are we can still put one foot in front of the other and begin the Journey. We certainly will not get there by doing nothing. I believe that in life the rewards of surmounting a challenge are comensurate to the effort that the challenge requires. There is no substitution for a True, Loving Friendship with your parents. Those that have them know this.
The healing may take more on your part. It's worth it. What you may receive will overshadow any inclination of imbalance of initiative. Most of what disturbs us about our parents (unless you are one of those with no conflict) are attributes that we ourselves possess or have worked Really hard not to. In any case it's a win-win no matter how you slice it AND a pristine mirror.
Raising a child of your own is like the other end of developing a real relationship with your parents. For me, it's kind of like standing in the middle of two mirrors facing each other. It gets kind of 'hot', but it's a wholistic, self evolving, transforming 'heat' with Beauty and Love at it's Core. All good.
Relationships take work, especially where there is history, blood family or otherwise. They take an investment of yourself: your energy, your time, your vulnerability, and your honesty, but when they're the Real Deal they Give you what Nothing else in Life can-- Wholeness, Completeness, and a One of a Kind Love. Folks, It's What We Live For. It's one thing to read it on a page, but experiencing it for yourself?.....Well,....it turns it all GOLD. There is faith, hope and love, but the Greatest of these is Love.
Choppy Parental Waters: Tantrums
These are not fun, I'm here to tell you. Tantrums are not fun on their own, but mix with that verbal skills that are still in the making and you have a very frustrating time for your coming-up-on- three year old, not to mention her parents which are desperately trying to understand her irritated, expressive rants.
Just earlier this week we realized that we needed to come up with a decisive, solid and dependable response to our daughter when she expresses herself in such a violent manner. By violent I mean loud, strong, and radical----basically a 'meltdown'. These happen most often when she is not getting what she wants. Sometimes it happens because she is not being understood properly, however those are minimal.
Loud, public ie., on the kitchen or living room floor tantrums are not something we wish to foster. Expressing yourself is one thing; publicly coming apart at the seams in a hurtful way, is a different animal altogether. We quicly realized, "Uh oh. We better do something about this possible pattern and Fast." In my mind I saw this little vignette down the road of a situation like this left alone and untouched and man, it was not pretty.
So far, so good. We've implemented a few boundary principles and directional cues. We did a little research and polling of our own from other parents. We have implemented what we learned with pleasing results thus far. The opportunities to test out such theories at this age are numerous. It's a time of compact experience: a lot happens in a short span.
Shayla is such a darling child and so sweet. She's a very quick learner as well. There's nothing wrong with being head strong. It just has to be directed in the right way. Yes, there certainly are right ways and wrong ways to do it. She's certainly teaching me a lot about life....and God, coincedentally.
This is such a poignant way to learn what it must be like for the Higher Powers working with Us. Comical, to tell you the truth, in a funny and not so funny way, sometimes. There is faith, hope and love, but the Greatest of these is Love.
Just earlier this week we realized that we needed to come up with a decisive, solid and dependable response to our daughter when she expresses herself in such a violent manner. By violent I mean loud, strong, and radical----basically a 'meltdown'. These happen most often when she is not getting what she wants. Sometimes it happens because she is not being understood properly, however those are minimal.
Loud, public ie., on the kitchen or living room floor tantrums are not something we wish to foster. Expressing yourself is one thing; publicly coming apart at the seams in a hurtful way, is a different animal altogether. We quicly realized, "Uh oh. We better do something about this possible pattern and Fast." In my mind I saw this little vignette down the road of a situation like this left alone and untouched and man, it was not pretty.
So far, so good. We've implemented a few boundary principles and directional cues. We did a little research and polling of our own from other parents. We have implemented what we learned with pleasing results thus far. The opportunities to test out such theories at this age are numerous. It's a time of compact experience: a lot happens in a short span.
Shayla is such a darling child and so sweet. She's a very quick learner as well. There's nothing wrong with being head strong. It just has to be directed in the right way. Yes, there certainly are right ways and wrong ways to do it. She's certainly teaching me a lot about life....and God, coincedentally.
This is such a poignant way to learn what it must be like for the Higher Powers working with Us. Comical, to tell you the truth, in a funny and not so funny way, sometimes. There is faith, hope and love, but the Greatest of these is Love.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
'Homeslice Pizzeria'
Hanging with Dad on Sunday Afternoon
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Sooo Many Ways to Communicate or Post
It's really cool in this day and age that there are so many methods for posting to your online media platforms! Which do you choose?! You can SMS, MMS, or e-mail. Are there really only three basic routes? Of course, MMS is multi-media sending when you have stuff other than just script to send. So maybe that doesn't count as separate from SMS.
At any rate the options are multitudinous when you start considering the finer particulars of each avenue and then there are the apps for the new evolving phone/computer things we've got going called 'smart phones'! Fun in tiny packages is what I call them!
'Face Time' has taken on new meaning when 6 out of 10 (it seems!) people you meet have these little PDA/phone contraptions beeping and cooing at them whilst in the midst
of a social gathering.
Multi-dimensional experiences are taking place simultaneously as you are having face time happening in Austin (say) whilst your contacts in Beijing, California, and Denmark are getting real time status updates as you peck a one-liner while sipping your hazelnut mocha on a cafe patio. "Times, they are a changin' ". Yes they are Bob. ....Yes they are.
It's fun to be in the middle of such a quickly advancing techno time. It's fun to think, "What will our kids be using as standard device accoutrements in 10, 15, 20 years? What will those devices be capable of"? There is faith, hope and love, but the Greatest of these is Love.
At any rate the options are multitudinous when you start considering the finer particulars of each avenue and then there are the apps for the new evolving phone/computer things we've got going called 'smart phones'! Fun in tiny packages is what I call them!
'Face Time' has taken on new meaning when 6 out of 10 (it seems!) people you meet have these little PDA/phone contraptions beeping and cooing at them whilst in the midst
of a social gathering.
Multi-dimensional experiences are taking place simultaneously as you are having face time happening in Austin (say) whilst your contacts in Beijing, California, and Denmark are getting real time status updates as you peck a one-liner while sipping your hazelnut mocha on a cafe patio. "Times, they are a changin' ". Yes they are Bob. ....Yes they are.
It's fun to be in the middle of such a quickly advancing techno time. It's fun to think, "What will our kids be using as standard device accoutrements in 10, 15, 20 years? What will those devices be capable of"? There is faith, hope and love, but the Greatest of these is Love.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Parenting Teaches Allowance
If you're the kind of individual that has the pattern of being in relative control of your surroundings, then parenting is, in My Honest opinion, an experience that will help to release you from that burden. If not, then you will likely need a psychologist to 'set you to rights'. Honestly, you will have to let go, either willingly or painfully. There may be 'pain' of sorts in any case.
Kids are spontaneous, and do not follow a 'procedure'. That way of living that we teach them--code of ethics, ways to interact with others, basic living principles--comes by through example. Of course they learn these things in stages as they go, as we all do. Through this, you as a parent learn So Much about yourself: your tolerance, your patience, your flexibility, your weak points, your inadequacies....mostly the weak links in your own internal chain of operations.
Parenting is very revealing. You can't fake This. The learning--Your Learning is On. Big Time. There is faith, hope and love, but the Greatest of these is Love.
Kids are spontaneous, and do not follow a 'procedure'. That way of living that we teach them--code of ethics, ways to interact with others, basic living principles--comes by through example. Of course they learn these things in stages as they go, as we all do. Through this, you as a parent learn So Much about yourself: your tolerance, your patience, your flexibility, your weak points, your inadequacies....mostly the weak links in your own internal chain of operations.
Parenting is very revealing. You can't fake This. The learning--Your Learning is On. Big Time. There is faith, hope and love, but the Greatest of these is Love.
Monday, September 21, 2009
Time Flies for Daddies and Mommies
It's already been the better part of 3 years that Shayla has been with us. Here's a little video clip that I shot of her about 1 1/2 years ago...
Relationships Take Work.....
Ask anyone who's been in one for 20 years or more. I think a big part of the puzzle is that Both people have to want it to work. If one gives up before the other then you aren't on equal footing. There has to be a reason to keep you committed to it, and that reason needs to be formidable. The relationship has to have a deep importance to you.
In this day and age of ADD culture it may be asking a lot of the individual to have patience and step back to take a grander view of the 'big picture', but this is exactly what is required if we are to return to the passé ideology of generations before.....and cultivate long lasting intimate relationships. Our lover/partner has to be our Best Friend. Can we find that Best Friend In our intimate partner? If we cannot or do not put forth the commensurate effort, then the clock is ticking.
Vulnerability always seems to be key to this process ( there is no escaping it), and it is a conundrum of sorts. This person, which we are challenged to allow in to our most vulnerable places then has the ability or the access to hurt us. Perhaps they have in the past and so then forgiveness becomes part of this equation of salvation. Whether or not they Have hurt us in the past, it is likely that someone has, and so it follows that Trust, Vulnerability, and Forgiveness are here together--all holding hands.
We can meet these Fellows of ours willingly and allow the Blooming of our Inner Beauty and Fulfillment to take place or we can be afraid for a Million reasons and back away and put it off for another day, another relationship, or another lifetime,.....but why? "If not you, then Who? If not now, then When?"
--a Zen saying There is faith, hope and love, but the Greatest of these is Love.
In this day and age of ADD culture it may be asking a lot of the individual to have patience and step back to take a grander view of the 'big picture', but this is exactly what is required if we are to return to the passé ideology of generations before.....and cultivate long lasting intimate relationships. Our lover/partner has to be our Best Friend. Can we find that Best Friend In our intimate partner? If we cannot or do not put forth the commensurate effort, then the clock is ticking.
Vulnerability always seems to be key to this process ( there is no escaping it), and it is a conundrum of sorts. This person, which we are challenged to allow in to our most vulnerable places then has the ability or the access to hurt us. Perhaps they have in the past and so then forgiveness becomes part of this equation of salvation. Whether or not they Have hurt us in the past, it is likely that someone has, and so it follows that Trust, Vulnerability, and Forgiveness are here together--all holding hands.
We can meet these Fellows of ours willingly and allow the Blooming of our Inner Beauty and Fulfillment to take place or we can be afraid for a Million reasons and back away and put it off for another day, another relationship, or another lifetime,.....but why? "If not you, then Who? If not now, then When?"
--a Zen saying There is faith, hope and love, but the Greatest of these is Love.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Kid? Yes. Ante up!
Having a child of your own is like anteing up your Life. No 'if's, 'and's or 'but's about it. It IS to take a straight look in the mirror and Clean Up your act. You thought that you knew what responsibility was, but that was only an idea, as you now Know. This is Real responsibility with Real consequences and Real benefits. This is the Real Deal. Real Life. This is what being a parent has shown me thus far.
Play 'Adult' time is over. This is BE an Adult time. Sound intense? Well, that's because it is. You discover very quickly that as an adult you have to prioritize what you will allow yourself to spend energy on. Many things are not worth your investment of energy that at one time you were more than happy to spend away upon. Choosing your 'battles' is one thing that I think one surely learns whether we are talking about kids or your partner. Many expenditures of energy are simply not worth it.
As a parent you become a good 'distiller'. Yes, distiller in the sense that you gain the ability to get to the kernel of a problem very quickly, out of necessity. Why? Because you don't have the time to flounder around--that's the kids job, which they know, by the way.
Fact or Fiction? This is another component of parental sleuthing that you come to know quite well: deciphery. When is a 'yes' actually a yes, but more than that and also even more prominent an issue is the attempted parental 'hoodwinking'. It's kind of fun in the begining, but quickly looses it's novelty status, especially once the child realizes that they can pull it off successfully. Then what happened once on a clear day multiplies like some new virus. They're smart...and they're only going to get smarter! That's just the truth of it. So....me? I'm buckling down with extra high potency B vitamins and Ginkgo Biloba, green tea, the latest self help books, and good defensive 'one-liners'. I'm already working on an underground shelter for when the teenage years hit. For Me!! Shhhhhhhh! (whispering)Nobody knows.....
There is faith, hope and love, but the Greatest of these is Love.
Play 'Adult' time is over. This is BE an Adult time. Sound intense? Well, that's because it is. You discover very quickly that as an adult you have to prioritize what you will allow yourself to spend energy on. Many things are not worth your investment of energy that at one time you were more than happy to spend away upon. Choosing your 'battles' is one thing that I think one surely learns whether we are talking about kids or your partner. Many expenditures of energy are simply not worth it.
As a parent you become a good 'distiller'. Yes, distiller in the sense that you gain the ability to get to the kernel of a problem very quickly, out of necessity. Why? Because you don't have the time to flounder around--that's the kids job, which they know, by the way.
Fact or Fiction? This is another component of parental sleuthing that you come to know quite well: deciphery. When is a 'yes' actually a yes, but more than that and also even more prominent an issue is the attempted parental 'hoodwinking'. It's kind of fun in the begining, but quickly looses it's novelty status, especially once the child realizes that they can pull it off successfully. Then what happened once on a clear day multiplies like some new virus. They're smart...and they're only going to get smarter! That's just the truth of it. So....me? I'm buckling down with extra high potency B vitamins and Ginkgo Biloba, green tea, the latest self help books, and good defensive 'one-liners'. I'm already working on an underground shelter for when the teenage years hit. For Me!! Shhhhhhhh! (whispering)Nobody knows.....
There is faith, hope and love, but the Greatest of these is Love.
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Shayla pics of the Day
Various photos of Shayla today. Maybe she'll be still for a few....
Friday, September 18, 2009
Tired Girl at Bouldin Creek :)
Shayla and Mommy on the escalator at Barnes & Noble
Shayla loves to go up and down and up and down escalators when we pass them, so we indulge her here at Barnes & Noble's. :)
There is faith, hope and love, but the Greatest of these is Love.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Installing Window Blinds with my Dad Today...
It's always interesting to see how 'the generations work with each other. Fortunately for he and I it goes pretty smooth. :)
...Here we are picking up the custom blinds from the warehouse.
...Here we are picking up the custom blinds from the warehouse.
There is faith, hope and love, but the Greatest of these is Love.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Shayla this Morning
Wow. She let me take a few photos this morning. She was standing still for them and required no bargaining. Change happens...
There is faith, hope and love, but the Greatest of these is Love.
Monday, September 14, 2009
The Forming of A Person
It is really so exciting as a new father to witness all the rapid cognitive progressions that take place practically, it seems, overnight with my young daughter. She's 2 1/2 and already talking about the difference between hexagons and octagons when we go places and she sees these shapes represented. Once every few days she'll say something that makes me snap my head around and mouth a silent OMG. So far, for the most part, this has been an impressed OMG and not a troubled one. :)! Yay.
We have been really fortunate as a family in that I have been able to stay at home with her up to this point. Hopefully this can continue. We'll see. I say 'fortunate' because I know all too well that if this little 'sponge' of mine were to be in some sort of preschool daycare she'd be picking up some of the habits around her. This is natural, but I'm Really liking that we're getting the opportunity to lay some 'foundational behaviors' before she becomes more consistently exposed to other caregivers/teachers ideas and patterns as well as the manners of the kids around her.
They just do what they see for the most part. Today I was scratching my head and I just happened to look over at her and she was scratching her head just then in exactly the same place. Funny. That's just how much of this 'mimicking' mechanism they have hard wired inside of them. It's what they do; that's who they are at this point and I know that will continue for years to come, even as it becomes less overt down the road.
Mixed with all this there are the moments that you see with crystal clarity where your child is becoming there own person--where THEIR person is peeking through all the movements in approval and rehearsal. It is with Beauty and Sadness that you see 20 years into the future and know this person will one day be their own. It is a bittersweet taste that this epiphany gives you. Happiness for the person they are becoming, and a sadness for the departure of sorts that this blooming is a harbinger for. However, it's still Joy All the Way because you Love this being like you've never Loved anything in all your Life. So you know, already....now...in this moment .....that this eventual heartbreak is a sweet one---sad and sweet in that it Bears you Up and rounds out Life.
God Bless this Process for there is nothing like it in All the World.
We have been really fortunate as a family in that I have been able to stay at home with her up to this point. Hopefully this can continue. We'll see. I say 'fortunate' because I know all too well that if this little 'sponge' of mine were to be in some sort of preschool daycare she'd be picking up some of the habits around her. This is natural, but I'm Really liking that we're getting the opportunity to lay some 'foundational behaviors' before she becomes more consistently exposed to other caregivers/teachers ideas and patterns as well as the manners of the kids around her.
They just do what they see for the most part. Today I was scratching my head and I just happened to look over at her and she was scratching her head just then in exactly the same place. Funny. That's just how much of this 'mimicking' mechanism they have hard wired inside of them. It's what they do; that's who they are at this point and I know that will continue for years to come, even as it becomes less overt down the road.
Mixed with all this there are the moments that you see with crystal clarity where your child is becoming there own person--where THEIR person is peeking through all the movements in approval and rehearsal. It is with Beauty and Sadness that you see 20 years into the future and know this person will one day be their own. It is a bittersweet taste that this epiphany gives you. Happiness for the person they are becoming, and a sadness for the departure of sorts that this blooming is a harbinger for. However, it's still Joy All the Way because you Love this being like you've never Loved anything in all your Life. So you know, already....now...in this moment .....that this eventual heartbreak is a sweet one---sad and sweet in that it Bears you Up and rounds out Life.
God Bless this Process for there is nothing like it in All the World.
Artwork with my Daughter
It's fun to do artwork with her, but I must need to go back and learn some more about the way to draw basic objects because she always seems to need to amend my art. It's never safe to let it stand on it's own. Multiple overlays are her specialty.
If you got it, you got it. If you don't you better get it.
--Some Financial Analyst
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Communication: The Artform Is It's Own Entity
It's so easy to take smooth, easy communication for granted, but don't fall into this trap. Smooth communication is something to be thankful for each and every time. Intimate relationships can offer priceless teaching in the artform of communication. Yes priceless, because where else are you going to get that?! There is no other kind of experience in life that offers the riches of learning like this kind. How true that is! The complexity of this type of rapor is also unmatched by any other. We all bring the residue of our past into these relationships. This 'residue' can help or hurt depending on how the residues mix. Are they oil and water or are they compatible compounds? If we all had our way everything within our intimate relatings would line up just so, but there always seems to be things
Friday, September 11, 2009
A Couple of Music Clips from my Visit to Hill Country Humidor Today...
Here's a couple of music clips of some spontaneous Jammin' at Hill Country Humidor in San Marcos. Go Rob! What a fine establishment!!
Pics from Hill Country Humidor
Hill Country Humidor Live Music Jam
This is a really cool cigar and pipe shop in San Marcos, TX. It's one of those really unique places that feels like somewhere that you want to hang out for a while,...and they want you too. Business here is never, and I mean Never rushed. Come here if you have some time to just Hang, converse with other people, guys and galls, and yes..smoke. I ALWAYS hear live Bluegrass when I come here. It's always informal and spontaneous. There's a rack of banjos and guitars that anyone is free (with respect, of course) to pick up and pluck out a tune. Others will spontaneously join in and pretty soon you'll have 3 guitars, a banjo, and a dobro with 3 or 4 part harmony sending the notes and the smoke up to high ceiling. It' amjgreat place, a one-of-a-kind, for sure. Rob, the proprietor has created one hell of a smoke shop. It's a time warp, snatched out of a time that's seldom seen in this day and age. If you love bluegrass and folk music and really enjoy the enegy and vibe of The Kerville Folk Festival--You will Love this place! Come out to San Marcos when you have 3 or 6 hours and enjoy the groove and vibe of Rob's 'Hill Country Humidor'. They don't sell bevs (coffee beans, yes!) so grab yourself a coffee, soft drink, or water at 'The Coffee Pot' and totter across the street and come on in...
Age comes naturally. You have to work for Wisdom.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Monday, September 7, 2009
Families Keep Each Other Afloat
It's comforting to know that even in times of National Financial Crisis one can go to a an extended family member's house for a liesurely Labor Day dinner and still have to hold back from gourging on the outlayed bounty of culinary delights! It gives me much pleasure and reassurance to see that family traditions will still go on despite the blows to the wallet from the current economic plight.
This little downturn is nothing compared to what some at lunch and dinner tables all around the country today have experienced in their lifetimes. Yes, the Great Depression is what I am thinking of. Even in those harsh of harsh times trditions still continued, although the main course probably looked a little different that it did in times of plenty, but families still gathered and meals were still served. The human spirit is stronger than the bank account and thanks be for that!
It's the Fellowship that is 'The Diamond in the ruff'. The meals are ultimately secondary to that of gathering together whether it be blood kin, goods friends, or brothers and sisters united by faith, belief, or a common cause or any mixture thereof. God bless the human spirit and all the trdaitions of bonding and fellowship that we keep. Like so
many evenings after familial holiday feasts and events, sitting here in the cool comfort and familiarity of this place I call home I am so glad that I decided to attend this family event. I feel the richer for it, in a real good way, down deep in my bones. Rich in connectedness, love, support, and safety: the bedrock of families. Age comes naturally. You have to work for Wisdom.
This little downturn is nothing compared to what some at lunch and dinner tables all around the country today have experienced in their lifetimes. Yes, the Great Depression is what I am thinking of. Even in those harsh of harsh times trditions still continued, although the main course probably looked a little different that it did in times of plenty, but families still gathered and meals were still served. The human spirit is stronger than the bank account and thanks be for that!
It's the Fellowship that is 'The Diamond in the ruff'. The meals are ultimately secondary to that of gathering together whether it be blood kin, goods friends, or brothers and sisters united by faith, belief, or a common cause or any mixture thereof. God bless the human spirit and all the trdaitions of bonding and fellowship that we keep. Like so
many evenings after familial holiday feasts and events, sitting here in the cool comfort and familiarity of this place I call home I am so glad that I decided to attend this family event. I feel the richer for it, in a real good way, down deep in my bones. Rich in connectedness, love, support, and safety: the bedrock of families. Age comes naturally. You have to work for Wisdom.
Saturday, September 5, 2009
More Quillan's B-Day Photos...
See and download the full gallery on posterousThese kids were so good and polite, taking turns breaking open the piñata. :)
Age comes naturally. You have to work for Wisdom.
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