subway shows.
in MP3, Performance, video
as bit, blog, capoeira, coming home, facebook, flippin, grocery, grocery shopping, home, little gem, phone, post, serendipity, subway, time, yoga
So, I was gonna tell you all about this.
But then someone who had gotten the whole thing on his phone friended me on facebook and threw it up on there (ew. threw it up. just thought I’d point that little gem out).
And if pictures are worth a thousand words, then I can only imagine what a video is worth. Maybe a whole flippin’ blog post, actually.
But, this is a bit of serendipity that happened on the subway, coming home from capoeira, yoga, and grocery shopping. It just proves that some pretty good moments lay buried among the mundane all the time. We just got to be open to them, is the thing.
uh, that’s not the kind of baptism I meant, but okay. It’ll do.
in Funny Stuff, Loved Ones, video
as friend, God, grief, head, Jimmy, life, little gem, package, pouring water, rebound, rest of the night, water
Basically life gets funnier when I open my mouth.
Well, that, and more embarrassing.
Like tonight, when I was innocently referring to how my friend came over and showed up with a small bag of cookies, but ended up saying this:
And then Jimmy showed up with his small package…
But then I couldn’t even finish my thought because I realized what it sounded like I had said and so I started laughing while trying to explain that there was a huge difference between what I said and what I meant.
But, really.
His small package?!?
Yeah, we then spent the rest of the night trying to shimmy that little gem of a phrase into as many of our conversations as possible.
And thank God for humor. I was talking to a friend of mine who has been well acquainted with grief herself and we both agreed that sometimes it comes down to either laughing or dying.
And so it’s really nice when there are moments that make the former option easy.
And it’s also nice when you play games with your family and you find yourself doing something as dumb as pouring water over your head because you’re playing Truth or Dare and you had tried to give that little dare to your mom, but she turned around with a rebound card and there you are, poised with the water over your head, thinking how this is not one of the worst things you’ve had to endure, by far.
But don’t take my word for it.
See for yourself.
blind date and Jesus IS jewish, after all.
in photography, Thoughts and Feelings
as blog, California, Christian, coast, God, little gem, Mandy, meal, Ollie, prayer shawl, prayers, sense of humor, texas, today, twitter, yarmulke, year
Apparently you can be happily married, never having once signed up for a profile on Eharmony.com, and still end up on a blind date. Like today. Mandy, a lovely Texan who found me through this blog offered to take me out for a real meal while here (it seems she had read one too many [...]
