there'snoplacelikehome

There really is "no place like home" :) I got to go home for spring break ... maybe my last spring break ever! I really do enjoy going home. I got to ...
go camping with the most amazing gals EVER!!
stare at the millions of luminous stars above
watch Mary Tyler Moore (I am proud... I am woman)
paint Grammar's fingernails
play a few rounds of 42 with my family
eat like a bear
sleep like a baby in the pitch black dark!
read with my family in the Grammar and Gramper's living room :)
sing a broadway musial song (Oh What a beautiful mornin) with my Gramper
smell skunk spray ... after my Grandaddy shot at it several times with a 22
love my family

vrrrroooom

As I was listening to "Smoke in our lights" from the Avett brothers live album, specifically to the line "no cops around" in the car on the way to Goldthwaite, I passed a cop car. I passed a cop car going about 80 mills an hour in a 70...

He quickly turn on his lights... which there was no smoke anywhere around... I saw them blaring red, blud, and white very clearly...

I got a bit sweaty. I pulled all the way over to the side of the road and reached for my license and insurance. As he slowly walked to my passenger side window, I was prepared for the worst.

...warning

I went slow like a scared turtle the rest of the way home, happy to have only received a warning. I don't care if you get there before me hare... I would like to keep my $200. I like to mosey.

shed the dead

fall

Leaves cover trees. Growing leaves of green is natural for the tree. The green leaves surrounding the tree help give the tree identity and purpose. Leaves make it easy for trees to hide their branches which are attached to the trunk that is rooted firmly into the ground. Branches are full of life that is given to them through the firmly planted roots.

Branches reach out to other trees. Branches are beautiful. Branches are broad. Branches are blessed. Cold comes to kill leaves! The leaves don't want to go. They fight to stay on the branches turning stunting shades of red, gold, and orange. Leaves are sneaky. They think outward beauty will win hearts. The cold is stronger than shades of gold. The leaves finally give up and turn brown. Now the tree can actually see the true leaf!

Most of the time the wind blows the dead leaves off of the tree exposing the branches to the eyes of the earth. Occasionally, though, dead leaves stick to the branches trying their hardest to suck the life out of the branch. It gets cold for a reason! The branch needs to be clean! I think that some dead leaves stick to branches so our sisters and brothers can pick them off.

I was running the other day, and saw dead leaves on bushes and trees everywhere. I picked one off. Lately I have been praying that God would show me when and how to encourage my Christian brothers and sisters. Sin is natural for humans, like leaves are natural for trees. I will be picking off dead leaves :) Please pick them off of me:)

come on y'all

all you need is love (and a banjo)


Let's all get in a van and learn how to play instruments. We can live off the fruit of the land and the spare change from lovers of music and peace.

love comin at me from all directions

I want to live in a house big enough to fit all of my bosom buddies! When I look over my shoulder... I really want all of you to be there.... right there over my shoulder... not across the country/state... Maybe someday...I am so thankful that God gave me such loving wonderful friends!! This is kinda a weird time in our lives huh... transition.... Linsey sent me a really cool link talking about transition that I really enjoyed reading....transition

I like working at the hospital :) Today, I got to laugh with one of my patients about funny little grandkid adventures. I am so glad that I am working there!! I really feel like God is giving me love in so many different ways.

Patient: "thank you for working with me today." God: "I love you Katherine."
Supervisor: "You have such a tender heart." God: "I love you Katherine."
Patient: "Why are you asking me the same dumb questions? Ya dummy!" God "Yep.. still love you."

does a body good

It's time to eat. The air feels cooler now that the sun is gone for the night. mmmmm... I am so hungry....It is eaiser to see the cars now that they have lights. I know that I should not fly towards the lights, but something in my body draws me to them...like a cow to hay...only cows get fatter by eating hay, and I only get brutally splattered chasing forbiden lights. Ok... no lights. I could go to the pool to get some supper. There must be one without skin that tastes like death. I tasted death once on the 4th of July. I was trying to eat when I came across a smell that made my body freeze. It paralyzed me for an instant... but only an instant. I forced myself to remember the smell in case I should come across it again. My nose has saved my life many times. It can smell death before my tounge can taste it. Oh... there's a glowing bug. Sometimes I wish I could glow... glowing bugs are just so beautiful. Also, people don't kill them. People LOVE glow bugs. People don't kill things they love...(they catch them, put them in a jar and slowly sufficate them). At least I will have a quick painless deaths. One quick slap and I am smeared all over a hand...or the wall... or the windshield...if you can slap it... i'm there. Oh... wait... there's a jogger on the path. She's a slow one... good... I'll catch up to her and take a drink. She will not even notice. The air is still around her head. I am approaching the target's face now. Oh.. wait... I think I'm getting too close to her nose... must turn back... the suction is too strong... can't turn back...too late. Oh... back of the throat. I was caught by the uvula. Fly Marsha fly (that's my name by the way... Marsha) now is your chance! Oh no... here comes the swallow. ooh... down to the stomach. Now it will be only a matter of time before the stomach acids eat me away. I want to be slapped...someone slap me.

I was running yesterday, and I was thinking about running in College Station at night in Wold Pen Creek. There are many lights there on the trail, so lots bugs hang out on the trial. I would usually eat at least one bug everytime I went running on that particular trail at night. I was thinking how nice it was not to eat bugs anymore. Like 9 seconds after that thought, a but (probablly a misquito flew in my mouth.) I knew it was too far back to spit out... so I just swallowed it..yumm. Then I though about how weird and shocking it would be to be swallowed.

your wild remember!?

Due to popular demand...Robin... I have written again!

I see lots of beautiful wild flowers when I am running outside. Most of the time they are along the road and in people's back yards. One time though, I saw beautiful yellow flowers inside a fence!

Don't you know that you are WILD? You should not be confined to a mere strip of land in someone's back yard! You should be free to blow in the wind hitting other wild grasses and blooms, not cold metal fences. You should spend your evenings waving to the earth and laughing in the sun... what's that?... well, that's true... some of you by the roads are picked or mowed down. You have to remember that wild does not mean safe. Surrounding metal fences are safe. Be wild, flower. Be free. Live up to the name you have been given.