This Too Shall Pass

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THE WAYFARER

The beauty of the world hath made me sad
This beauty that will pass
Sometimes my heart hath shaken with great joy
To see a leaping squirrel in a tree
On a ladybird upon a stalk
Or little rabbits in a field at evening
Lit by a slanting sun
Or some green hill where shadows drifted by
Some quiet hill where mountainy men hath sown
And soon would reap near to the gate of Heaven
Or children with bare feet upon the sands
Of some ebbed sea, or playing on the streets
Of little towns in Connacht
Things young and happy
And then my heart hath told me
These will pass
Will pass and change will die and be no more
Things bright and green, things young and happy
And I have gone upon my way, sorrowful.

Padraic Pearse (1879-1916) an Irish Freedom Fighter

Vacation bound!

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Tomorrow Matthew, El and I leave on vacation.  We’ll head to Hermosa for a day, then Sunday will meet up with Matt’s parents in Rapid City and head towards Montana.  Our very flexible plans are to stay at Sheridan Sunday night, head to Missoula and stay there that night, and get to our campground Tuesday.  We’ll spend 3 days in Glacier National Park and head back for Rapid on Friday.  I expect we’ll get to Rapid Sunday, although that part of the trip isn’t fully planned out yet.  Then the three of us will leave the in-laws and stay with my parents for nearly a week and do some of the Black Hills touristy stuff.  Then Friday (Aug 7) we’ll head back for home so we can be here for an acting workshop that Matthew’s high school drama teacher is putting on in Wessington Springs.  It will be a very busy time and boy do I hope El does as well in the car as she did for our trip to Yellowstone last summer!  We just got a new camera and I hope we get good pictures.  I also started an art class (yesterday was my first one) and told her where I was going.  She said to get lots of good pictures and do some sketching.  Since I also plan to write some posts for my two blogs, maybe do a little fiction writing, and get some reading done (and I know El will demand a lot of my time)…. I think I’ll be plenty busy!  Pretty sure I’ll need a vacation to recover from my vacation when we get back…

To the hills!

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We’re off to Hermosa this weekend.  Will drive Matthew’s mom to Pierre on our way on Friday morning (she’s driving up and staying with us Thursday night), maybe have lunch with both his mom and dad, then off to Hermosa.  Probably catch a movie with dad Friday night, then off to Sturgis for the holiday and the family thing on Saturday.  Then back to home on Sunday.  Busy quick weekend, but I’m sure it’ll be fun.  There are several family members we haven’t seen in a while that I’m really looking forward to seeing this weekend.

And for the fun of it: two great pics of El.  The first is a girl who really likes hats (and shoes… she’s a girl’s girl!).  Don’t you wish you were that flexible?  And the second is a picture of the first time I’ve put her in pigtails.  We’ve done barrettes but they don’t stay more than a few minutes.  She wanted to take the “ties” outside on our walk and I told her the only way she could take them is if she let mommy put them in her hair… and she went for it!  (The stinker had a third hairtie I found out later, it’s hidden conveniently on her left thumb.)  Previously it’s been a dodge and run while mom tries to decide if pulled hair and tears is worth getting cute pigtails.

What I’m doing:

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Just an update on what is keeping me busy. 

I’m still working on getting a movie theater running in Wessington Springs, it’s a MUCH slower process than I’d anticipated.   Currently I’m trying to find a core group of dedicated people that can take some of the work and contribute to the idea bucket!

I haven’t done any writing for a while; I had been doing that in the morning before going to work but slacked off for a while and suddenly realized that I’m no longer late to work now that I’ve stopped.  So in interest of not driving my partners crazy, I’m going to put that on hold until I can find a better time to write.

I haven’t worked on geneology stuff in a while, it was easy to get pulled away from that.  I hope to start sporadically again sometime soon?

I’m still working out 5 days a week and (mostly) sticking to the body for life diet thing.  While I work out, I’ve been listening to Leviathan Chronicles (a wonderful audio drama) and Seventh Son (a podcast trilogy).  Highly recommend them.  Still listen to “I Should be Writing” too.