Long Ride Home - Patty Griffin (Texas Countryside)

When asked about "the life and death of it all" what is there to say?
The one is not the opposite of the other.
Death stands alone.
Life is to continue to walk on.
Walking when you want to stop.
Walking when every step you take is harder than the last.

I wish I could make it better.
Step back to when I could hold your hand in mine and make it ok.
Instead I watch you stand alone, inside yourself, in the shadow of death.
It is a shadow that encompasses and does not discriminate. It's so heavy.
It's senseless and time does not heal. Time scars. It haunts. Time helps us carry the weight of death.
Just remember, you are not alone. All you have to do is reach out. There will be a hand waiting.

now my feet won't touch the ground

Let me go boys, let me go
Push my boat from the highest cliff to the sea below
Rocks are waiting boys, rocks await
Swoop down from the sky and catch me like a bird of prey

Now my feet won't touch the ground
Now my head won't stop
You wait a lifetime to be found
Now my feet won't touch the ground

Singing now my feet won't touch the ground
Now my head won't stop
You wait a lifetime to be found
Now my feet won't touch the ground



no words make it better
easier
at a loss

so hard when someone you know becomes someone you knew

In Your Arms is where I want to be

Hush, now let's go quiet to the park
Where it first started
Cool night, us lying in the dark
I felt my heart
Was trying to find the place for you to stay
A place where I feel safe

[Chorus:]
Anything we have known, anything we've forgotten
In the rain, in the dark we'll lay
In your arms, in your arms I'll stay
Anything we have known, anything we've forgotten
In the rain, in the dark we'll lay
In your arms, in your arms I'll stay

Take my hand
Let's go into the trees
Behind the branches
Falling on our knees
I remember feeling like this part of us will never change

[Chorus]

Follow me
We both know the way
It's always been the same

[Chorus]

In your arms I'll stay [x4]



Had to share. They were on ELLEN again.

today

Today
Grandpa got a new hip.
Sitting in my chair watching his face I was reminded.
The times he picked me up from school.
Every basketball game he made it to.
Each school project he (and grandma) helped me create.
The sugar butter toast breakfast.
Holding me outside the ring after my showmanship debacle.
Vicks and sprite.
700 WLW.
A contagious accepting smile.
Bengals mug tea and cookies.
A grandpa who is priceless and like no other.
Whose smile tells me he loves me.
Talked to me and told me what I needed to hear.
Making me laugh till my stomach hurt.
Never judging.
A man whose hands speak of work and who smells like cattle despite a ten year leave.
I am reminded of love.
I am so lucky to have him.

Thankful

With the constant stream of thankful posts daily on facebook I want to add my own list of the abundance I am thankful for.
1. My new little family Rick and I are creating. My Family.
2. Rick
3. Health

I have so many others but without these everything else seems meaningless. Forever grateful for those that I am so happy to have in my life. That I am physically capable of doing the things I want. So blessed in this year.

Adele: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Very much overplayed but for me its not yet old.
She makes it look effortless

Pinch myself

I had one of those moments yesterday.
a moment to savor.
i tried to look around and breathe it in.
to remember the words.
remember the feelings.
the one i want-wanting me back
remember his smile.
i'm pinching myself because the love surrounding me...
it's glittering .
thanks god.
really thank you.