"When I was your age"

I've started to paint again.
I love when you don't do something for a while and then start back up again. It's like doing it again for the first time. So refreshing. Like spring. I wish it were here. I want to paint outside, read outside, sing outside, BE outside.

"What a man desires is unfailing love"-Proverbs 19:22 ; I've been thinking a lot about this today. Just how it shapes my life and what the word 'desire' really means to me and also how it encompasses so many things-how what we think our desires may be are usually just a substitute for what our real desire is. Why? So many reasons.
Maybe, I don't know, my thought process has only just begun on this topic.

There's something about stories being told by those that have lived it and actually experienced what we yearn to keep alive for years to come that is just so remarkable. I find it to be compared to the excitement of a thirteen year old with her gossip...but I find myself to become almost more excited than that when I am given the opportunity to hear a story, a personal story, of someone and the situation they've been through in the past.
There were two women, about the age of seventy-eight or so, that came into the building where I was studying today. "Do you remember when they used to play basketball in here?" "I do, and Tommy and Sue...you know, I don't know how they ever played in here." Obviously friends as well as Alum, their chatter amongst themselves was actually that of a thirteen year old year-pillow talk from the past. I wanted so badly to ask them to tell me a story about life here forty years ago-however rude that might be, I didn't care. Watching them stare into the glass at the medals and trophies , I could see the memories from long ago spring into existence in their minds and I wanted nothing more than to be apart of them.

Song for today:"Drown out" The Swell Season
Website for today: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://home.att.net/~boomers.fifties.teenmag/1950kitchen-grandparent.jpg&imgrefurl=http://home.att.net/~boomers.fifties.teenmag/photos_1950s.html&h=295&w=300&sz=20&hl=en&start=46&um=1&tbnid=xj4IKVOYSPTUeM:&tbnh=114&tbnw=116&prev=/images%3Fq%3D1950%2527s%2B%26start%3D40%26ndsp%3D20%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN