flames and smoke climbed out of every window

Want to hear something so trippy? Think about a year ago today-- what you were doing, who you were with, what you planned for the future, yadda yadda yadda.



If you were to sit me down a year ago, on August 11, 2007, and ask me to write down where the coming year would take me, approximately 95% of what I wrote down would now be proven TOTALLY INACCURATE. The things I hoped for, my friends, my relationships, my career path, my expectations, my passions. The many issues God's response to which has been all, GOTCHYA.

Sometimes I wish we could pick what life lessons we get to learn when. Like a big heaping help of this, but NOT THIS PLEASE NO. But it doesn't work like that. I have a sneaky suspicion that it's all to make us the kind of people we're supposed to be. But when have you ever known me to be someone who rejoices in the power of logic?

love, mara.