indicated: I Just Wanted you to Know: a letter to a friend

I really valued the style & mix of your latest blog post. You didn't even need to write about me :) (ha)

The thoughtfulness combined with nice pictures & details of your life brought me

a fuller glimpse of you and life where you are.

To be honest it made me want to pack up my bike & mandolin & Bible to move to you -

or at least to come visit & attend FloMo with you for a few weeks;

To eat raw with you (as long as i could have my eggs & beans) & to simple be another body there

present in your home - most likely laying on the kitchen floor.

This desire is probably intensified because of the upcoming & now-in-sight move that we will make.

My parents, brother & me. Not far, just 2 miles-ish. But the upheaval of change that I am not allowed to forget;

the transition and re-making of home that you and dare-say I, am too familiar with.

I will mourn in their own rights, the loss of this porch & this four-window lit room.

This side yard & these peonies faithfully blooming each year.

Being in the very midst of a town that I have acquired a fondness for.

I will still garden, and still have my own space (albeit smaller).

I will still join friends or family out-of-doors around a campfire & there will be the addition of trees in the lawn.

It will simply be different. Which is not so simple as I would like it to be, yet I reach out for it; embracing it if you will.

As one reaches for an embrace of comfort & hope, knowing that all the pain won't be soothed entirely -

nor should it be.

I trust that this change will be good, is good; and that God has every great purpose fulfilled in my surrender to it.

Giving up what is already not mine.

indicated