Dispatches

In case you haven’t noticed (which I don’t know who in their right brain WOULDN’T have noticed because, well, come on!), it’s Friday.

And Friday means one thing.

The weekend. Time to hang out with your friends and family. Sleeping in. Wearing NASA T-shirts to work with a blazer and calling it good.

Ahem. Well, maybe Friday means more than one thing. Because what I was really going for was the fact that Friday means “Dispatches.” At this point, you’re supposed to go wild with excitement. I can’t see you, but I’m going to go ahead and believe that you’re doing it. That just helps my self-esteem. 😉

Anyway, let’s get on with the show!

• Last night when I was cooking, I was listening to an EP I bought at Musician’s Corner a few weeks ago after hearing the band Gabriel Kelley play. I don’t know what it is about this group that I love, but I love the music so much. My favorite lyric goes something like this: “I’ve got three acres; there’s room enough for two; but I’m not asking you.”

• I read a line somewhere in a book I was reading or online the other day that was talking about shyness. It said something to the effect of: Isn’t shyness just a form of pride because it makes your uncomfortable feelings more important than the other person’s? That hit home with me because I often hide behind my shyness. But if I’m called to love my neighbor more than myself and to lay my life down (in big and little ways) for others, shouldn’t I put aside my uncomfortableness and strive to make them more comfortable?

• Tomorrow I am sleeping until I wake up. It may be 3 p.m. I’m tired and am beginning to get dark circles under my eyes. I never thought that would happen to me. . . but just like gray hair, it has.

• For those of you who don’t live near me, I got my hair colored a couple of weeks ago. I went to Giovanni at Trim and let him do whatever he thought would look good. He advised going a little darker with copper in the mix, in order to “brighten up my face and bring out my eyes.” It was SO much fun and I love it!

• I’m wearing my NASA T-shirt today. Getting out of bed was the LAST thing I wanted to do today. So wardrobe really became about what was comfortable and what I could get away with.

• I am drinking a bowl of coffee. With chocolate creamer. It’s a nice way to start a Friday.

• Last night, I got this idea to get out my old laptop and see if I could revive it long enough to get something off the hard drive. I couldn’t get it to do a thing. I wish I knew more about computers!

• I enjoy it when songwriters use correct grammar, i.e. Trent Dabbs in his song “Rain or Shine.” Instead of going with the general public and saying “No one can love you as good as me,” he instead goes with the grammatically correct “as good as I.” I heart this.

It’s a busy day and I have miles to go before I sleep (which is Robert Frost, I believe).

I’ll leave you with the words of Wendell Berry:

The Peace of the Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake int he night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of the wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.