A TOAST

Sitting in my room this morning looking at my blank walls wondering what it will take to make this room seem more like mine and less borrowed i decided to decorate. the problem was that i didn't have anything to put up. no pictures no posters i had already hung the letters i had received from friends and family on my one wall but the white of the other 3 was over powering. then i remembered that i occasionally stick things in my bible that i like to come across and so i cracked open the stiff but well loved binding of the holy book. much to my surprise the thin pages of my bible were choke full of goodies with meaning and home all over them. among the things i found were the following:

school Pic of jill N.

pics of my sisters

camp photo of the trip staff

the best letter my little sister ever wrote me that makes me cry every time

photos of the one and only Lydia Luse

a sherpa note from the beautiful Cait Snyder

a drawing from JR

a book mark with a poem made by the wise Heather Lenahan

notes from sermons and new testament

a cross bookmark made by the talented Dasha

and an add i ripped out years ago with a toast on it:

A Toast

to nearest

to dearest

to the crew

to cahoots

to the ones who've been there

to the ones who'll be there

to dropping everything

to saying anything

to no judgements

to no doubts

to loyalty to trust

to favors

to life longs

to been to long

to nothings changed

to having history

to having your back

to moving away

to never to far

to growing up

to settling down

to your second family

to FRIENDS

I went looking for a reminder of home, and found it in the one place i should have know held home all along.

Dear Friends and family i miss you.