bring back those...

...lazy hazy crazy days of summer!

It's pretty grey today. Blah. Blah. Blog.













Heh.

Okay, so last night was the perfect way to spend a summer's eve. Sarah and I went with my parents and a few of their friends out to the Chateau Ste. Michelle winery in Woodinville to enjoy (the legendary amazing wonderful gracious talented) James Taylor...and his Band of Legends!

Snacks, sunshine, ice cream, wine, music dear to my heart, an energetic (and entertaining) crowd..."two good friends on my left and my right"...perfection. Three hours flew by like fifteen minutes, the whole crowd was dancing on the grass by the end, and Rod gave it an A++.

So. There's that glory, and then today's lethargy. I am driving myself CRAZY with my inefficiency, lack of motivation, and slothfulness. I have been home for a whole WEEK and feel like I haven't taken a single bold step down the golden path of my future life. What happened to my great ideals, optimism, determination, and zest? Poof. Don't get me wrong, I've been quite content. That's the problem. I need a swift kick in the pants. Get going you fool! You're wasting precious time! All I know is life is just fine but could be extraordinary if I would just get it into gear and not settle for the same old, same old. I am totally frustrating myself! Okay, vent over. But seriously. Carpe diem and all that. Soon enough I'll be food for worms, let's make something happen!

I think what I am missing quite honestly is a sound structure in my life. Too many hours of waiting and wondering and I just topple into despair.

dream weaver

...couldn't wait for Bridget to be back from her blog vacation so i could read up on the Collins summer so far. She'd posted this suggestion for the imagination:

"If you could travel with any famous person in any location which person and which location would you choose?"

I let mine just write out whatever first popped up. And she made this spectacular series of collages:

George Clooney - Lake Cuomo, Italy

JD Salinger - New York City

Wes Anderson - Antarctica

Meryl Streep - Tanzania & Kenya

Kurt Cobain - Lakeside Bible Camp

...how good it is to dream. That is one thing I am working on...not stifling my imagination. I think I have been living a little too much in reality. It's good for the mind to let loose a little now and then. And I've had a renewed respect and admiration for imaginative people as of late.

This week:

Sunday, Monday, Tuesday: essential seattle with the out-of-towners. Delaying the inevitable post-camp crash. Waking up Wednesday to a grey & cloudy sky and the sad reality that i would see no TCLers that day. Lunch with Vena was a gift from above and then I spent the entire evening telling my parents every detail of the previous weeks. *sigh*

Thursday: sushi birthday lunch w/ Kellie, Sarah, and Mary and then dinner at the Roundhills'. Nice and cozy.

Friday: The Dark Knight and Cheesecake Factory with the TCLers. Got a migraine halfway through the movie and still have not fully recovered. Yuck.

Saturday: surprise birthday party for Kellie/TCL '93 reunion. Incredible, strange, surreal, marvelous. 15 years?! Not possible.

Sunday (today): sunny skies, LBC staff at church, wedding celebration, TCL '08 1-week reunion (ha!) I LOVE these kids. blanket time, river dipping, barbecue, ultimate frisbee, worship, prayer for our absent friends.

So. It's been a transition week. I am back in my real world but a different creature. I keep forgetting i have wings; i'm crawling around on the ground and forgetting to use them.

back from rehab

home.

("home". i actually feel like i've just left home.)

couldn't have asked for a more perfect 21 days.

(i didn't even dare to ask. i simply stand in awe of the blessings poured out on me.)

1993. 1996. 2008.

legendary years in the lakeside life of erin hanson.

as close to perfection as time on earth can get.

a glimpse of heaven.

God's love made tangible in unbelieveable fellowship.

sigh.

golden days.

speechless and exhausted.

(here is just a smattering of moments:)

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