Reconnecting

So much has happened in the last couple of months and I have missed out on my blogging. I say I missed it, and I have, but in all this busyness, I have actually preferred my sleep and stillness over blogging. But many times throughout my days I have thought that I should really blog about this or that.

Here's a list of things I wish I had blogged about but haven't:
--Jesse's view of the world through pictures
--our awesome community of friends in San Francisco
--saying goodbyes
--the complicating process of getting Peanut to England
--plowing through every bit of our belongings determining "to keep" or "to pass on"
--the beauty of this lessening and the spiritual practice of the remembering the goodness of our life through these objects that we are sorting through
--what a thing of God the organism of the Outer Circle is as it lives and breathes the love of God through our IC/FBC family in SF on the streets
--taking in the tastes and pleasures of Napa on a week-end getaway with friends that have been family to us is SF
--saying a tearful goodbye to my friend Annelies but then stealing more moments in my house with her after, in the middle of a busy week for her and me she called to say, " I'm coming over to house with bon-bons and nail polish"
--hugging the big men who are like family to me--Scott (my constant enjoyment and truest neighbor), Fish (my big brother from the street who is much reformed, wonderfully considerate, yet so unrefined (this is quite wonderful too most of the time), and Joe, another beautiful man from the street who has persevered after Jesus and who I enjoy just having around, to eat my food and inhabit my orange chair like no other, twisting his twisties into character, laughing at simple things, and grunting.
--the pleasure of our friends Derek and Julia who we practically never see sitting on our stoop eating their burritos twice in 2 weeks!
--my last walk up Bernal Hill (where my weight is always lifted and I take in the city God gave us for a while) with my Peanut while smiling at her beard swaying in the wind
--the 80's prom party my friend Lyndy threw for her 30th (thought it was good of me to wear my fuchsia dress I wore to prom with the dyed-to-match payless purse and heels but my outfit couldn't stand up to the others coming through the door
--Jesse writing notes to his friends scrawled on the link freshly cut from our paper count-down chain and saying to everyone, while touching their arm, "We're going to miss you in London."
--Luci and Jesse being the best of friends
--Luci serenading Peanut for ten minutes at a time and telling me to "Go away" from her and her beloved
--enjoying teamwork with Darren in a way I could have never imagined

On that note, I have stirred up an overwhelming amount of memories and should probably exit. Here we are, now in MA at my folks, and reconnecting to our family life together, looking at each other and God and wondering excitedly what it will hold.

Thanks friends in San Francisco who have made my life!