with a foot in two worlds.

I miss the south. I miss the food, the people, the unpleasant humidity, my ability to count on rain at 1:00 and the rain to be done by 2:00. It's incredible the things that you remember when you are faced with the undeniable reality that you can do little to change your status of not having them (and more than likely never having them). Chicago has been in the 90's hot and sticky (pretty much like jax), but it's chicago. They have pinnies (not that I know too much about pinnies other than it's one of misti's favorite flowers), but they don't honeysuckle on the vines, there's no jasmine floating through the air, and I don't smell the ocean's salty water in the air. Even the rain is different here, it's small and hard, not like in Jax were if one rain drop hits you you're soaked because they're so large! I don't know, it's a different world up here, and to be honest I miss the old world more.

I recently got a new job, and I think that today instead of sitting around I'm going to think about how to finish my little story that I started earlier. That seemed to help me out a bunch last time with sort of understanding what was going on. Hey, if parables worked for Jesus surely they should work for me.

By the way the picture on the right is of a painting I recently did.

Bowling and Golf

I woke up this morning and my two middle digits on my right hand were so sore I could bearly move them up and down. Two days ago, I took my golf glove off my hand and it was red from the tremendous amounts of pressure placed on the skin of my fingers by the gripping (possibly overgripping) of my golf clubs. And today, as I recognize my age and how it's beginning to catch up to me, I rejoice in the splendor of a weekend spent enjoying the things of this life that I love to do but can not afford to do, unless someone else is paying. It was nice, if only fleeting.
I bowled 4 games last night, 156, 118, 124, 138. Sure there were two clunkers there in the middle but, man was it fun! Last week I played 36 holes of Golf and had so much spanking fun in the process! I can't believe how much Joy I get from those two sports which at first seem so simple and mundane. But I really do love em.
It's also occured to me that I need to get a job this summer and I'm not really all that positive where I'll work, but I'll figure it out... I hope.