handwritten on March 1, 2019
This fine evening, I had the pleasure of going to my first ever comedy club performance with a friend visiting from Seattle, my brother and his fiance. My brother has the tendency of liking to walk to various destinations. He also tends to widely underestimate the distance in which one has to travel by foot. Flashback to Denver Colorado, he had the entire family walking 45 minutes to get to a particular destination. It's safe to say, we saw the whole city that day. After walking all the way down the hill to the restaurant, he realized, there would not be enough time to walk all the way up the hill to grab our car and thus began our Uber adventure.
I have to say, any time I have been in an...
handwritten on February 28, 2019
This evening I had the pleasure of meeting some teachers after school for dinner and then I headed over to our fifth grade and middle school conjoined band concert. I admittingly had not sipped but rather gulped two large cups of coffee before the concert began at 7 P.M. I always attend the band concerts at our school for two reasons: I am great friends with the band director (I think he does the most beautiful job with his students) and I do feel that the teachers who teach the arts are not always supported as they should be. Would it not be nice if every teacher from our school was required to attend the concerts in the evenings? Imagine how our students would respond to that as well.
As...
handwritten on February 27, 2019
As I was sitting down for dinner tonight, I had this sudden urge to have toast with butter. I actually do love my bread, but I generally never eat it with butter. Actually, it took me some time to rummage around and actually find the butter in my fridge in the first place. I toasted my bread, I sat down and I thought about my day (which is what I usually do during dinner.)
Dinner is my silent reflection time of uninterrupted calmness. As I was taking the knife and slathering it in the butter, my mind began to drift, and I failed to notice that I was trying to cover every single spec of my bread with this butter. Until I looked up, I had not realized the nice blanket I had created right over...
handwritten on February 26, 2019
As I was driving home today to go running after school, there were two moments where the whimsy of the world just opened up. I was heading around a sharp bend on Church Lane (going very slowly), and I noticed in front of a red barn and much farmland, there was a family of deer. It certainly was a family as I was able to easily identify the mother, the father and the two babies. Well immedietely, the adults began to move and one child trotted behind. However, as they all got to the side of the road, there was still one baby deer just frozen right in front of my car. He or she clearly could not move a muscle. I watched as all three deer came out of the woods, rejoined with the deer right in...
handwritten on February 25, 2019
Last year I got into a heavy duty running routine. I think there were a couple of factors in this. My vocation was a bit rocky that year, I was trying to plan my wedding all while remaining cheerful and positive, and my father was going through many rounds of intense chemo treatments trying to beat his cancer. It is safe to say that sometimes life just unwravels like a piece of frayed yarn. Sometimes it feels like the threads split all at once.
So I thought to myself in December of last year, I am going to run the half marathon for the first time. I'm going to run and run and train and run. And I did. And some days I felt like I could fly. Other days I ran, and I had no idea where I was...
