I spoke with Peter on Facebook this morning. In a nutshell, this is what we talked about. And then we spent sometime discussing my decisions to go to grad school and to join the Air Force. Peter reminded me to take each step of my life with bold intention. Not often, but sometimes I forget.
Every chat I have with Peter renews my substance, grounds me. Here's the thing, Peter is a pirate...a guitar playing, law-defending, burning-man participating, joke-cracking, brazen pirate. He's the other-half of my aunt Muriel (she's not actually an aunt, but out of my large collection of "pseudo-aunts," she is perhaps the one I adore and respect the most). Together, they make up two quality people...that I look up to with all my heart. And as Peter said himself,
"Just want bright lights to stay bright, lord knows we need them."
side note: Sir Ken Robinson (the narrator of the video Peter and I were talking about), has a great story about kids and their life insights ( http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html the story starts at 3:35). A girl is drawing during an art lesson and her teacher asks her what she's drawing, she replies, "god." The teacher says, "but no one knows what god looks like." The girl responds, "they will in a minute." ha! Kids are so introspective if you allow them to be. Recently, I was playing Slap Jack with Sasha, the 5-year-old I nanny, when she started talking about how unfair loosing was. I told her that life is not about winning and then we talked about the purpose of human life and she said that life seems too unfair to live some days. Isn't that true. I agreed with her, then we brainstormed all the reasons life is worth living. It was the deepest conversation I've ever had about mortality, and it was with a five-year-old!
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