my little goblin...

One of the best parts of my nephew's Halloween was when a fortune teller told him, "You have a big heart. You give a lot of love, don't you? You're very creative, and, OH! Look at your life line! You will have a very long life." I have never seen his eyes get so big. He was overjoyed!

laugh about it, shout about it, when you've got to choose.

what did you do last night?

made chicken with panko bread crumbs, roasted red potatoes + kale which turned out to be a soggy pan of bread crumbs, potatoes that had to be scraped from the pan, + an almost inedible green mass. had a horrible ordeal with my nephew which resulted in tears, snot + disillusionment. watched a kid movie with a fake sea creature chasing really bad child actors around a summer camp, washed dishes for the millionth time this week + peeled wrappers off crayons for our crayon melting project today.


a friend sent me an email this morning asking what i did last night.
once i typed my response, i realized how truly comical, ridiculous,
+ laughable life can be. after all, the only guarantee we have is the current
moment + it's always better to find the humor in it than to take it too seriously.

hopefully today there will be more of this:

and less of this:

cool thursdays.

my nephew, some friends, and i had a really cool time at the summer concert held at the Dallas Arboretum last thursday.

resilience.

the following is a conversation i had recently with my brilliant 7 year old nephew:

Q: what is the difference between right + wrong?

GBF: right is a butterfly flying somewhere.
wrong is punching somebody in the face.