a post, a poem, pictures, & a song

[deep breath] Well, where do I start? How 'bout the beginning. In the beginning God created... -oops. went back too far. So Thurs. night I decided to make pizza, on the grill. Not bad, not "Mildly Fantastic" or anything, but not bad. I'll have to play with it some more. I've had some down moments over the past few days. Thought I was immune? "Ya thought wrong, Dude." [imagine that said with a gravelly voice, it makes it funnier] I'm recovering from them. I'm not kicking them off the island, they can stay... I'll go. I don't mind, I like to travel. So I have been enjoying TWLOHA's "social presence". They posted a few days ago a video of a High School, most of the students it looks like, "lip dubbing" Katy Perry's Roar. Very well done. They commented "dare you to watch without smiling", I couldn't. So I'm linking to it. Don't smile alone, it's more fun to share. Had a fun morning today. Went to a very out of the way field to watch my niece play soccer. I'd say it was "miles from nowhere", but I think it was closer than that. [probably more accurate to say minutes from nowhere] Had fun, cheered Kenzie on. Then we went for pizza. I had to sit in the middle, according to two little voices. Yes, it's nice to be fought over a little. "Sit next to me Uncle Brian".

I'm getting a little bit more brave... or maybe I'm learning to "not care" in the right places.
[l-r: Kenzie, me, & Payton]

TWO

Two

Of us

We

Easily said

I do

To our list of important

“tasks”

we had cake

we stood

up front

[not my favorite place to be]

we committed to each other

then we wondered

years later

about having ourselves committed

for committing

to this adventure

you think you know

that you can live with this person

which is good

that you probably can’t live without

this person

then

you find out

how selfish

you really are

how much junk you have been carrying

you get to see

[like it or not]

how that junk is poisonous

to this person

whom you love so much

how

you HAVE to find a way

to make it’s power

go away

forever

you realize that this poison

has been infecting

every relationship

you’ve ever had

it’s time for the

anti-venom

to stand up & say

done

you are being written

out of the story

this island

I’m on

You can stay

I’m leaving

I’m voting myself off

Out of this prison

So make yourself at home here

Cause you’re

No longer welcome

In my story
by b.e. noll

Spock's Beard - Goodbye to Yesterday 
I love the line: "do you have your baggage, or do your bags have you?"

photos, top photo "sunset with a friend", taken by b.e. noll. photo of me & the girls taken by Mickey Noll.