“Please save this for me. I’ll come back for you, love, I promise to. Please save this for me for until I return my love will burn, and my heart will stay.” -Ludo, Please
The date of my departure is approaching. The months have flown by. The weekends were few and busy. The weeks remaining turned [...]
Posts Tagged ‘loneliness’
Anticipating goodbye
Posted in Relationships, tagged adventure, Colorado, future, God, loneliness, love, Lutheran Valley Retreat, Nature, planning, summer, travel on May 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The journey of a day
Posted in Contentment, Life as we know it, Nature, Relationships, tagged weather, Nature, music, fiction, love, bicycling, loneliness, God, emptiness, hope, Psalm 36, The Beatles, Across the Universe, Here There and Everywhere on April 17, 2009 | 14 Comments »
{Fiction or non-fiction? Perhaps a bit of both dangerously intermingled into one story that’s mostly almost about me. Take it with a grain of salt, whatever that really means.}
She worshiped the glowing screen, petitioning it for the fellowship she desperately desired. “Facebook helps you connect and share with the people in your life…” Yes, yes, [...]
The sound of my voice
Posted in Contentment, Life as we know it, Relationships, tagged conversation, friendship, iTunes, language, loneliness, music, silence, small-talk, story-telling on March 17, 2009 | 11 Comments »
“Sometimes we talk simply for the sake of hearing ourselves talk…The activity gives us a pleasant sense of being alive…In all this, the significance of the words used is almost completely irrelevant.” -S.I. Hayakawa, Language in Thought and Action. Ch. 6, The Language of Social Cohesion
Mindless talking for the sake of talking? Guilty as charged. [...]