Nature & Animals Win

I’m torn between making this blog a blog about family, relationships, love and those sorts of ruminations and making it a blog about gardening, snails and other cute animals. I’m not interested in having this blog be my diary, but I’m interested in doing some carefully crafted writing. However, as I’ve started writing, I’ve been getting more and more interested in what has come to the surface.

The list of categories at the bottom of my blog show topics that are very important to me, give or take a few items. That’s neat to see, because I didn’t really choose them. My writing sort of chose them for me. I assumed I’d be talking about family, love & friends … in that order … but, so far, that hasn’t really been the case. I’m not saying that family, love and friendship won’t pop in every now and then or that those topics won’t ever dominate … they likely will. But, for now, other random stuff that I love is coming to the surface … and that’s been a nice surprise.

I loathe Bekins Storage Co.

I’m weighted down by sleepiness right now. One of the things on my mind is family. All of my childhood relics were recently taken from me. They all lived in a storage facility in Silt, Colorado. The storage facility lost them and is now out of business. Boxes of childhood and history — the stuff you can really touch and feel: yearbooks and yearbook entries, letters from crushes, gifts from best friends, art projects, videos of your little sister slowly starting to grow and mature, videos of our dogs prancing around in the backyard, books that look so familiar because they were fixtures on a bookshelf for so many years of your childhood, pieces of your life back then…things you could touch. I won’t be able to show them to my partner or, one day, my children. The loss hurts. I want it all back. It was hard enough to store it all away to begin with.