1999, December, Africa:

3:00 A.M. grilled cheeses, poop time dreamcast, culture time, pre-iPod cd player rotation of Plumb's candycoatedwaterdrops.

Reunited in foreigness; it was a change. These parents chose a 16 hour world trek for those months away from America. (I'd like to read your thoughts from that time someday......would you four publish that?)

Student teaching, Jeep time, still Defiance? Other things. It felt like despair. It felt like a tangle of emotions, fear, loneliness, sadness, breaking point.

Just recollecting in hearing that album tonight. Still a good album. No attached negativity, just hard truths and hope.

Just recollecting in how we have to be just words to each other again and still. Blogs, emails, phone words.

It's just life, I presume. It just sad sometimes, but we choose what we choose and hope and hang onto (Him) and things like Ireland trips!

Ireland!