Time Together and Time Alone

Long weekend - sort of. I was off Friday and Saturday, worked Sunday, and I'm off today. It's a holiday weekend, also our twelfth wedding anniversary. Since I would be working on our actual anniversary, we celebrated on Friday with dinner out at Guiseppe's and a movie - X3 - which was very good. Saturday morning we watched the final episode of LOST... Summary: Some answers, more questions . After church we went to the Sawyers for Wallace and Grommit and a surprisingly fun game of Croquet. That game is addictive. Must be the Irish/English blood in me... But wait - isn't that a French name? Ah, whatever.

I spent Sunday afternoon on my own - the family went up to Maysville for Granny's b-day celebration and will be back later tonight. I got to enjoy some of my favorite places and discovered a new spot... I walked at Spring Cove and the Capitol, and finally went over to the Wetlands Nature Reserve. I listened to the iPod while walking - I'm really digging The Violet Burning (I See Stars) and Pedro the Lion (The Secret of the Easy Yoke). Here's some stuff I wrote during my wandering... stop reading now if you don't know what to do with my poetry.



On the Fallen:
The mighty trees have fallen, up-ended
By a little wind and their own weight.
They stood, majestic, green-crested in the moment;
They lie, pathetic, moss-encrusted and splintered
Worm ridden, unfit even for burning, they rot away.
Do I stand as one of these fallen sentinels once did?
Beautiful, tall, and temporary as a breath?
Lord, save me from me. Uproot and sever me
from weak, sickly roots - graft me as a mere branch,
quickened by You alone.




Where am I?
Walking among slender, straight trees, white snow swirls around my feet; purple butterflies frolic and weave about... is this Heaven? The shafts of sunlight catch the slow-motion descent of a million tiny feathers, each carrying a single seed. From where do they fly? And where am I?