a big two
Friends, this is your approximate two-month warning. In two months I’ll be hopping on a plane holding a one way ticket to China. If that’s new to you, you’re welcome to read about it here and here. So why the two month warning? Because I want to see you. I think two months is plenty of time for me to see the people who want to see me (not necessarily all the people I want to see, but you do what you can).
So if you want to see me during the next couple months, let me know. Don’t just say you want to see me because it’s the nice thing to do. I just want the real-deal peeps.
I’m quitting my job at the end of July so I’ll have all of August to drive around the state (and country?) for visiting purposes. I’m looking forward to it.
Note: Click is exempt from this game, because he has no computer, but he will be receiving a visit from me.
Louie
Apartment life can be a funny thing. You live closer to your neighbors than probably anyone else in the United States, yet you often know little or nothing of them. The only thing you have in common (so far as you know) is your shared place of residence.
I live in a complex called The Gate. There is no gate, but the opted to name the apartments “the gate” regardless. We here at the Gate, more specifically those of us living to the west of the main swimming pool, we’ve got something in common: Louie. Louie is a neighborhood cat of sorts. Louie is a girl. Louie’s owner is a girl. Louie’s owner likes other girls, and that’s my best bet as to why the girl cat has a boy name.
At any rate, Louie is greatly loved by every west-of-the-main-pool-Gate-resident. When we have small talk on our way to the parking lot, we get to talk about Louie when we’re done talking about the weather. Louie greets everyone when they come home from work. Louie brings people together. I’m pretty positive that if Louie ever got killed by a car (like Foxxy the Pom), the neighborhood would probably get together and have a memorial of sorts.
So here’s to Louie, the female feline that oft graces us with her presence and brings unity among the people. Keep up the good work, girl.
Tuesday!!
(click)got an hour?
Here is a recording of one of my favorite people whom I have never met being interviewed by a lady on my favorite radio station. Shane Claiborne on NPR. Ol’ Shane sound familiar? He wrote the second book I ever reviewed on this blog, back when posts were interesting and fairly well-written. I actually don’t entirely agree with everything he said in this interview (he was handed some pretty tough questions), but I still like him and I still want to be his buddy.
Saturday
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Thursday
undeserved
Last night I experienced one of the top five most enjoyable meals of my year in Dallas, and it had little to do with the food that was eaten. I was given the extremely undeserved privilege of hanging out with my precious friend Katie Ann Domenech for the first time in literally two years. When I found out that said meal was going to take place, I proceeded to tell everybody at work that I was going to reunite with a close friend when I got off work. For the most part they didn’t care, but I told them anyway. I was pumped. I love having some quality hang time with friends, especially the ones that I wish I could hang with often but somehow have failed to for two solid years. You know?
I’ve been faced afresh with the reality lately that I’ve been given way way more than I even come close to deserving in the friend department. Even though most of my friends are many miles away from me and I’m not able to see them as often as I once did, I’m still so dang blessed to be able to call them friends. Chances are if you’re reading this then I count you as one of those people. So many people go through life (or seasons of life) without any friends that are half as close as some of mine are to me. That’s sad. It’s terrible. I hope to be as good a friend to people as so many gracious folks have been to me.
So thank you Father for friends. Thank you Katie for being mine, and thank you two-year-old picture for gracing the top of the blog with your magnificence, and reminding me of how great friends are.