Thanks to Stacy Uncorked who
lets all the random flow.
I know it’s technically the
Fourth of July holiday right this very minute but we weirdos here at the lake
don’t really acknowledge it until the Saturday closest to the 4th.
This year we, whoever “we” are, picked this coming Saturday, the 7th .
So today is just like any other day for me. And HOTTER than H-E-double
toothpicks!!!
I guess I’m mentioning this
because, as all of you are out picnicking and celebrating, I’m doubling up on
my writing since it’s not the holiday yet for us. People arrive here tomorrow.
So many that I’m making a hard pressed attempt to displace some of them
(in-laws are going first!). My mom, dad and best friend get first dibs on guest
beds. Everyone else, fair warning…fend for yourselves!
Tomorrow starts all the
decorating and hoopla. The lake will get crowded, the grocery stores packed
with lines down the aisles and all the other good stuff that goes along with a
holiday weekend. We are applying the “fly by the seat of your pants” approach
to the 4th this year. Give me strength.
Thank God for my mother who
will bring the holiday with her!
The Fourth of July makes me melancholy
though. Always. It means that summer is already halfway finished and I don’t
feel I’ve done close to half the things I wanted to do in the first half of the
summer and I certainly won’t be able to fit everything into the second half. But
I shouldn’t get ahead of myself. Live for the moment, right?
I’ve had the unique opportunity
to do a lot of thinking in the last 9 days. I haven’t written at all, which has
felt strange but freeing as well. It’s been just pure thinking time. (I feel
some Dr. Seuss coming on here!) Time for tangent thinking and “what if”
thinking, and possibilities and changes type of thinking. Peaceful thinking and
scary thinking all rolled up into one long stretch of thinking. And what
thoughts I’ve had! Damn, I should have written them all down!
Mostly I thought about
people. My family, important friends, people that mean something to me for any
reason at all, big or small. My life. What I’m like and why? What’s important
to me in my friendships? The awesome friends I have and what makes us friends? Why
you become closer to some and drift further from others. How certain friends
handle hard situations and who sticks by your side even when things aren’t
perfectly perfect.
I thought about the concept
of “soulmates” and stumbled upon this:
‘Throughout life you will
meet one person who is unlike any other. You could talk to this person for
hours and never get bored, you could tell them things and they won’t judge you.
This person is your soulmate, your best friend. Don’t ever let them go.”
I ran across quotes that made
me smile and cry and laugh so hard. I saw a video from over a week ago when my
friends visited that someone posted of me on Youtube (take it down, please).
I
saw this and it gave me more fodder for thought:
Life’s Natural Highs:
Falling in love
Hearing your favorite song on
the radio
Lying in bed listening to the
rain outside
Bubble baths
Giggling
Long conversations at night
The moment you wake in a
sunlit room
Lazing on the beach
Running through sprinklers
Laughing at an inside joke
Laughing at yourself
Laughing so hard your stomach
hurts
Laughing for absolutely no
reason at all
Friends
Having someone tell you that
you’re beautiful
And I loved this last one
called “Weird Love”.
We are all a little
Weird and
Life’s a little weird,
And when we find
Someone whose weirdness
Is compatible with ours,
We join up with them and fall
in mutual
Weirdness and call it
Love.
To say these last nine days
of meditation were emotional would be an understatement.
Each day friends have stopped
by, called or emailed just to talk. Why don’t we make more time for each other
on a daily basis? I know life gets in the way but does it have to?
