Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Strange Magic

9 beds in 9 nights, 10 hours of sleep in a 72 hour period, a funeral, a wedding (yes, that's the same chapel), brain surgery, midday fog you could touch, a clueless bellhop, parachuting, plane-ticket-as-impulse-buy, crying and almost crying, a birthday and a porch swing. Did I leave anything out - yes.

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You know, I was looking forward to this trip to Houston and NOLA. Now, I can't remember who I was before I left, this is going to take a bit.

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Oh, yeah, Verde, sorry. Well, the conference, the Policylink conference, Regional Equity 08, was a very good thing for us. Like mentioned sometime before that will never come back, we were on a panel with our fathers and mothers, and to our very great surprise found we'd a story to tell that almost belonged next to their stories, and fell thru a hole in the universal chair when we realized where the hell we were, humbled by the chance to serve.

We saw good friends, good friends, good friends, good friends, made new good friends, and left thinking that, if we keep doing our work, doing it well, and speaking the truth - well, things will work out the way they are supposed to...

goodbye forever Jim, congratulations forever Ken and Rhianna, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye for however long that has to be.