This Blog in general and todays post in particular

I sett up this page over a year ago and for some reason never used it.
Now seems like the right time to begin, although I couldn't tell you why.

My hope is to post little things, often. A picture. A thought. A question.

Today was a picture and a thought.

A picture of one of my hearts longings - I find I miss the ocean and I miss Laguna Beach. Somehow, inside of me LgB has come to represent the easiness, lightness and brightness of life. That almost surreal vacation feeling. A carefreeness that is not carelessness. A lessening of responsibility, a leaning on the security of family.
This is strange since my family is no longer there and the actual experiences we have had in LgB were not necessarily easy.

None the less, on days like today, the memory of and longing for that feeling - for a place of brightness and wealth, a place that in its placehood denies the inevitable heavy cares of life- sings its siren song in my heart.
On these days it is good for me to read Henri Nouwen's words again, to remember that desire is good and natural, the importance is not - as the Buddhists say - to transcend desire, leaving her behind in the griminess of life, but to order my desires. To say to them, "Ah, there you are again. Welcome home little desire. I see and acknowledge you but today there are other bigger desires behind whom you will have to stand. Perhaps, you can take a nap back there, little desire, and we can talk again some other day."