Today I am going to London.
But it was a summer - everything that a summer should be. Everything that I needed.
I saw elephants in a cornfield. And I caught fireflies. There is a difference between existing and living of which elephants and fireflies are only a small part.
There were fried green tomatoes, Texas thunderstorms, and the cool sanctuary of a familiar church. There was a family that is amazing and strong and beautiful. Home.
And there was life. There was life waiting to be had. It doesn’t always wait – but this time it did, fortunately.
That was my summer. Full of quiet and whispered realizations about what’s important and what falls away. If I had talked any louder the quiet would have fled in an incalculable loss.
Today I am going to London. But I’ll be thinking about elephants and fireflies. And home.
So I’m off then. But, I’ll be back soon enough – “Lord willin’ and the creek don’t rise.” I’ll be back soon enough.
9.03.2004
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pip pip!
welcome to london, say hello to eastern star for me.
looooooove jen
I hope you check your messages, for I always mean them.
I hope you have a wonderous time. My Sara, my little pocket texan, my wayward traveller, the finest woman in all of Christiandom. Tonight I re-realized just how much of a truly amazing, wonderful, special person you are and what you mean to me, but that's a story that shall be told somewhere else soon. And, truly, you really are the finest woman in all of Christiandom.
I honor, love, and value you as if though you are a piece of me.
best of travels, my dear. best of travels. may the proverbial road treat you as well as it has me.
-The Anonymous One
Anonymous one - which is actually your name,
I did check my messages - in fact I'm transcribed your last one and am going to hang it on my wall to remind of the good things I'm going to come home too. Which you are - one of the best.
Good then.
Love, forever and always,
Pocket Texan
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