Lazy days

Lazy days are meant to be spent lounging in bed until the afternoon settles in.

They're meant to be spent listening to music that makes you want to hold the ones you love closer.
Meant to be spent have a pot of coffee or two just because you have the time.
Meant to be spent effortlessly sprawled out on the couch watching your favorite movies.

Days like this should be used to catch up with those you hold dear.
Used to do the laundry you haven't had time to do over the past week.
Used to make you remember just how beautiful life is.

Always,
L.A.

Lucky

Who am I to deserve the friendships I've been so very blessed with? With the easy nature that comes with each one of my girlfriends as we just sit around enjoying a good movie and each other's company? These are the moments I would love to freeze in time.

To others, tonight wouldn't even be a blimp on the radar, but it is nights like this that have shaped me into the woman I am today, and for that I am eternally grateful.

Always,
L.A.

That life changing moment...

when you discover you like coffee right in time for fall, on "national coffee day."

I'm drinking a gas station style french vanilla cappuccino right now as I sit through one of the many education classes I'm taking this semester. Mmm...

Hope you all take some time in the midst of the craziness of life to just stop and take in the beauty of fall. Mmm. God is good. Just look at all He's done for us.

Always,
L.A.

A note to the man whose last name I'll someday share,

For some reason unbeknownst to me, my hand especially longs to hold yours tonight. I think it may have something to do with the tumultuous fall weather that's going on right now as I sit in the  library and read The Canterbury Tales. Or maybe it's the romantic way Middle English sounds in my head as I read about knights and squires and the such.

I do know one thing though. As much as I know this time by myself is making me into the woman I'll be when we meet someday not too long from now, this thing still rings true.

I miss you, my knight.

Always yours,
me

Because sometimes just my words aren't enough

"Our job is to love people. When it hurts. When it’s awkward. When it’s uncool and embarrassing. Our job is to stand together, to carry the burdens of one another and to meet each other in our questions."
— Jamie Tworkowksi

"In college, I used to underline sentences that struck me, that made me look up from the page. They were not necessarily the same sentences the professors pointed out, which would turn up for further explication on an exam. I noted them for their clarity, their rhythm, their beauty and their enchantment. For surely it is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions. To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do."
— Jhumpa Lahiri, My Life’s Sentences

I can't help but be struck by the irony of the way we lose friendships. It's the same way we fall in love. At first it happens so slowly you don't even realize it, and then suddenly all at once.

Always,
L.A.