“The Times They Are a Changing”

June 2009

This past June was quite an interesting month.  I’m not even sure everything that happened.  Some things just happen without us even noticing.  However this June was probably one of the most interesting on record.

My job hasn’t been particularly exciting because I’m working outside doing landscaping all day, but in the heat that we had this month it has been quite a rough experience, but I only have another week and a half of work so I think I can last through that.

This past month I have gone to two different weddings, and I was only invited to one of them, and I had a great time seeing friends at both of them.  It just seems to be that time of my life.  Everything seems to be changing and people are getting engaged, married, moving away and finding their way in other places.  It’s just weird, for me at least.

I’ve got to spend some quality time with some people that I won’t be able to see as often as I’d like to next year, which has been terribly bittersweet.  I’ve been wrapped up in this world where all my friends lived within a 5 mile radius of myself, and now with my upcoming move to Arkansas and everyone going in hundreds of different directions… I’m not sure how to cope.

June has been a growing month.  There have been different aspects of each day and week that have tested me and made me think twice about everything.  I didn’t get truly excited about moving to Arkansas till about the last 2-3 days of June.  Other than that I’ve been still terribly apprehensive.

June is gone and now July is upon me, which is sure to be an interesting month with my move to Arkansas half way through and training for my job starting not too soon after that.  I can’t wait, but I still taste the bittersweet flavor of leaving a place I’ve learned to call home and the exciting and unknown future of the next few years of my life.

Challenge

After a month of so much change, rebirths and death; I feel like this month needs a particularly powerful challenge.

Find someone that you really care about and

tell them how much you care for them.

Sometimes in life we take things and people for granted, but often we don’t know how much that person means to us until they are gone.  So in the next month make sure you don’t have that regret of never telling that person how much you love, care or appreciate them. Even if it seems awkward they will really appreciate it.

Books I’m Reading

Tao of Pooh ~Benjamin Hoff |  War and Peace ~ Leo Tolstoy

Album of the Month

Ra Ra Riot ~ The Rhumb Line