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Friday, October 1, 2010

Its the little adventures

Dear Self,

Do you remember that time that you and Melissa took an activity bus from Virginia, driving through the night to make it up to Maine by 9 am the next day?  And how you attended church with the Merrells in Boston?  And played the piano for their choir musical number?  Do you remember how you don't actually remember much of NYC because you were driving aforementioned bus on all those complicated roads and byways?

And then there's the time that you and Katie decided to make that 80 mile bike trip from Provo to Ogden.  Do you remember the early hour you left when friends got up with you to bid you a safe trip?  Do you remember crashing at lunch time on Temple Square and your exhaustion overcame any qualms you had about being there in your sweat covered clothes with your meager meal of crackers and water?  And how surprisingly the mountain was easier than the level section heading into Ogden?  And how the very first thing Doug said to you when he saw you at the end was, "I'm so glad I didn't do this with you"?

Do you remember yesterday how you traveled to Richmond twice in one day to pick up friends from airports?  And how the only times that there was torrential downpour was while you were on the road?  Do you remember those long hours when you just thanked whatever civil engineers in the world built amazing roads?  And how you found that Super Junior and CNBlue make good travel buddies but good friends make the best travel buddies?

Good times.

Love,
Me

Sky over Charlottesville, VA
View of Richmond airport from my side view mirror

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Trading Places

Dear 長谷部, This weekend is a big one for both of us.  You have your game against Borussia Mönchengladbach (Fighting!)  
Hasebe Makoto Vfl Wolfsburg 2009/10 Season
And I will be watching the prophet speak.
President Thomas S. Monson 
How about one of these days I attend one of your games and you watch a session of Conference?  Our lives will never be the same again.  
Love,
Me
Hasebe Makoto in a suit, Chicago Times
Doolittle's Spiders soccer team, by Angie Brownie
P.S. Why is it, when I do a search for images of Hasebe Makoto, that Google search finds pictures of Jay Chou as well?

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

A New Start



Dear World,

I think you got confused. The scene was straight out of a movie - girl in one fell swoop finds herself nursing a disappointed heart and bandaged fingers and blistered feet. When I should have grey skies and torrential downpour, instead you gave me blue skies and sunshine so that I almost forgot there was such a thing as deferred hopes. And then you gave me a friendly face who told me about her life's work so that I rather forgot to feel sorry for myself but found new inspiration. When I would have had a melodrama, you insisted on a feel-good flick. How is it I was determined to have a good cry that I ended up smiling instead?

Love,
Me

And because I don't have pictures from my day, I will post pictures that I took in nature that I love.
Ivy growing along the side of the Disappointed House

The Beach at Monterey California

Wildflowers along the road in CA