2019?!

How has this much time passed again?!  I have so many ideas to write about.  I've declared a fast from Facebook and all of my time-consuming phone games (currently Candy Crush and Peggle) for the sake of reclaiming cognitive and spiritual space.

Most recent news...historic flooding of the Arkansas River, start of Impact leadership program (beginning next week), Tori (senior, new job at Steffey's, opened first checking account yesterday, time to look toward college), Dad (heart cath and EP past two days...diagnosis afib), and celebration of Mom and Dad's 50th anniversary last Friday with renewal of vows.

Upcoming...major vacation to Grand Canyon, Zion NP, Great Salt Lake, Tetons, and Casper.  I'm so excited! 

Kid Questionnaire

From Facebook..."Without ANY prompting ask your kids these questions" Tori = 1st answer. Adrion = 2nd answer.

1. What is something I always say to you? You love me. " I love you"

2. What makes me happy? Me not being non-social. Jillyboo

3. What makes me sad? Deaths. When I get really angry.

4. How do I make you laugh? When you're being way too crazy. Tickling me like a psycho person.

5. What was I like as a child?  I have no clue. I do not know.

6. How old am I? 36. 36.


7. How tall am I? I don't know. I don't know.

8. What is my favorite thing to do? Read. Sit by Dad.

9. What do I do when you're not around? Do County Line work. Lay down in bed.

10. What am I really good at? Drawing. Playing Peggle.

11. What am I not very good at? I don't know. I don't know.


12. What do I do for a job? Counselor at school. Counselor.

13.What is my favorite favorite food? Crispitos. Macaroni.
14. What do you enjoy doing with me? Talking. Playing with toys.

Worry in Haiku

Granny

Lonely, Resigned, Frail
Waiting, Missing Loved Ones Gone
Generation's End

Mama

Tired, Short of Breath
Atrial Fibrilation
Lung Carcinoma

Still Kickin'

I can't believe I haven't blogged since 2014.  So much happens from day to day, so the absence of time represented here seems impossible to go back and document.  I've been in dormancy.  No reading or writing to speak of since finishing my master's.  All purposeful thinking on "things" and desire for seeking out the "things" to think upon in books went away for awhile.  I've been hiding behind the digital world, watching from behind my screens.  I'm feeling a reawakening, though.  After the holidays have kicked my tail, I'm planning on reinvesting in my cognitive and spiritual selves that have been ignored for too long.  That probably means I have to turn off the screens.  That's okay.

Wyoming 2014

Wonderful trip.  Missed Garon like crazy.  Some favorite pics...

View off south side of Casper Mountain of Muddy Mountain and beyond

Examining a rock on Crimson Dawn trail on Casper Mountain

At the Smith cabin

Oh deer!

Uncle Toddly ♥

Jackrabbit at Hell's Half Acre

Reservoir side of Buffalo Bill Dam

On the dam...200+ feet to bottom

Pretty

Wapiti Valley east of Yellowstone

Greencreek Inn, Wapiti Valley

Hot!

The road by this sign (Firehole Drive) melted in July before our visit!

Too close!  Only way through was past him, though...

Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

Great-grandma Marcia ♥

Todd cut holes in the fence between Marcia and her neighbor to give the dogs a view.

Adrion and his look-alike great-uncle Todd

Moments in Time...

May: 
Adrion's kindergarten graduation...

Tori's 6th grade graduation...

Janelle's ATU graduation!

June:
Tori and Adrion started Kuk Sool Won...

Petit Jean mini-vaca...

Great Smoky Mountains vaca...

July:
Completion of 35th trip around the sun...

Casper/Yellowstone vaca...

...pics to come!

My Uncle Timmy

I'm missing you so much.  I'm wondering where you are now.  Why does God want us to love each other when our time together is so short?  I have a lot of theological and philosophical answers to that question, but my heart doesn't understand.  You had such an impact on my life--I didn't even realize how much until I lost you.  Selfish.

Thank you for all of the walks--around the pond, at Lake Fort Smith, at UAFS.  Thank you for laughing at and through Life in good times and in bad.  Thank you for showing me how to fight with grace.  Thank you for showing me how to serve others in love.  Thank you for being real and never caring about what others thought or how they lived.  Thank you for loving my Garon and my babies.  Thank you for the house in Mountainburg.  Thank you for watching the skies with me--stars, clouds, storms.

I miss you.