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Kellymwalker
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Name: Kelly
Metro: Vancouver
Interests: concerts, well researched books, leadership lessons I've not heard yet, the writing process, coffee, linear communication, mingling parties, mentorship and my friends.
Expertise: typing really fast, making something out of nothing, challenging people, diplomatic communication, bargain shopping.
Occupation: Marketing
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
Member Since:
12/16/2004
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| I've started a new blog at http://ittakesmyvillage.blogspot.com/. I'll keep my xanga account so I can still get each of your posts sent to me via email. I just like blogspot better than xanga. | | |
| I'm in love with these children!
This is Jared's first day of kindergarten. Sophie wandered out in her pyjamas and rainboots (oh so grunge meets wellies chic) for some snaps too.
p.s. - i fully ripped this photo off their parents' blog ;) | | |
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| "It just doesn't help me if people are focused on sounding really good, like they've got their Christian act together, because what they have is an act. What helps me is to come across something that I can read and say, "Oh, exactly. Me too." It seems that this is what Jesus did. He would listen and nod and say, "I get it. This is really odd for a lot of us." A lot of our lives feel like mistakes were made because it doesn't feel very hospitable to be a human on earth-whether it's 2000 years ago or in 2007. So I write books where people in them say, "I hate everyone, and I'm not a good forgiver, and I'm in an awful mood, and I'm just going to watch TV, and I don't feel like being friendly to you, and I'm sorry you're having a bad day, but go call someone else." That doesn't come across as perfect Christian values, but I can't get bogged down by what it sounds like to other people. I need to tell the truth as it's come through me. It has helped me grow and get less crazy and less self-centered, which is the source of so much of my unhappiness. I write books that I would love to come upon, so that what I am longing for would exist." - Anne Lamott | | |
| There are pieces of me all over North America. More accurately, there are pieces of me from all over North America.
I have just spent two weeks in almost all of my homes, former and eternally current. California holds my family and will always be home while they are there, even though I have never lived there with them. Calgary holds my history, my awkward teenage years and too many familiar faces.
Each place made me more thankful. Thankful that I am comfortable so many places, thankful that I am really, truly me with people in so many places.
I stayed up until 4 a.m. last night with good friends. Friends that I feel like I've known forever that make me laugh harder than most can. They also know my dirt, and in that there is absolute comfort.
A friend who used to copy my grade nine math homework got married last night. You know those weddings when you aren't sure if you should really be there? It was one of those weddings for me even though I feel like I have always known this person. I still felt odd being there. Odd that is until he said, "thank you, no honestly, thank you so much for being here. I am really glad you came." I love that every girl in our high school class had a crush on him and now, 10 years later, we are all just people, cool and nerdy in our own right with the same universal goal: finding happiness and making a real contribution in this crazy, messed up place.
I stayed at my best friend's house, someone I've had more sleepovers with than anyone else. Yes, whipped cream was sometimes present over the years, and yes, we always giggled.
So yes, I'm thankful. Thankful that I know the people I know and thankful that some of the inconsequential things that used to feel so important no longer are. We are all on the same playing field and we all understand each other so much better for that.
So there are pieces of me in these places, both old and newly understood. I hope I always feel this way each time I return to see how those pieces are doing.
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