1. After hiking in beautiful Evergreen, CO we saw a herd of wild elk on the campus of a high school. Have you ever seen a wild Elk? They look strangely similar to a cross between a horse and a cow, and when I saw them I exclaimed "Look at all those horse-cows!" then thought, I'm not from around here.
2. Saturday night Emily got hit by a tree. Literally, a tree fell out of the sky, landed on her back and bruised her spine.
3. I ate salted maple pecan ice cream, and said it was the best ice cream I'd ever eaten (because it was) even though maple is one of my deepest offenders.
4. I dressed up as a giant breakfast sausage to get a $2 burrito from Chipotle.
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Real life, folks. Now I'm home in Greenville, and normally I'd have the post-vacation blues, but not today. Just the I-don't-live-in-a-neighborhood-with-my-friends blues.
The past months have been months of travel allowing me to sit face-to-face with people I love all over the country. I'm exponentially joyful that I get to do that, but I also can't help but think about how I have to travel the country to spend time with them.
I woke up this morning poignantly reminded of it so I prayed that one day I will live within walking distance of some of those people again. There really is nothing I love more than walking to my friends' houses and them walking to mine, and at some point in the last few months I have come to believe that things like that don't matter as much as I once believed them to.
My friend Katie told me on Sunday night that she prayed for a house with a big front porch and a swing, and God graciously gave it to her. It reminded me that things like porches and neighbors are of great importance, perhaps the most important on some days, and we shouldn't forget to ask for them.
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