The moon was AMAZING tonight. I was driving home and people were pulling over and just looking at it. It was low in the sky and so big. It looked fake, casting an eerie glow over the hills of vineyards I was driving through. Beautiful. I didn’t have my camera with me so I snapped some pictures as soon as I got home. Not quite as amazing, but still cool. (this photo is my first editing attempt in my new Adobe Lightroom!)

Well, it’s a marvelous night for a moondance
With the stars up above in your eyes
A fantabulous night to make romance
‘Neath the cover of October skies

And all the leaves on the trees are fallin’
To the sound of the breezes that blow
An’ I’m trying to please to the callin’
Of your heart strings that play soft and low

And all the nights magic seems to whisper and hush
And all the soft moonlight seems to shine in your blush
Can I just have one more moondance with you, my love?
Can I just make some more romance with you, my love?

Well, I wanna make love to you tonight
I can’t wait ’til the morning has come
And I know now the time is just right
And straight in to my arms you will run

And when you come, my heart will be waiting
To make sure that you’re never alone
There and then, all my dreams will come true, dear
There and then, I will make you my own

And every time I touch you, you just tremble inside
And I know how much you want me that you can’t hide
Can I just have one more moondance with you, my love?
Can I just make some more romance with you, my love?

I recently sat down with a good friend who is often frustrated because his heart is in another country and he is waiting to be there and doesn’t want to be here. This frustrates me because he is here now and until he boards a plane and moves there, God has him here for a reason. And he’s missing it! Or at least I think he’s missing it. I could be completely off base. I get it, I really do. I am SO anxious to be someplace else, doing something else. But we’re here, in New York. And next week we’ll be here still. And he calls it complacency and I call it contentment.

Complacency

Contentment

Finding glimpses of beauty, inspiration, challenge, wherever you are. New York, Atlanta, Australia, or Colombia. If you want to change your life, you can. Do something about it. Change it. But if you are staying where you are, you better as heck be the very best at being there that you possibly can. Colossians 3:23 is a verse that constantly comes to my mind when pondering things like this. “Whatever you do, work at it WITH ALL YOUR HEART! As working for the Lord, not for men”. And I know this is talking about working. Not living. But…it can’t be that different can it?

Sometimes its not about making it a big adventure or a challenge bigger than the last. Sometimes its just about spending quality time with a friend who loves you. Please, never miss an opportunity to bless, encourage or strengthen a friendship just because you are looking for a bigger challenge.

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Today was a cooking day. I tried to make a lot of food that I could pack for lunches throughout the week. I made a curried quinoa with roasted chick peas, artichoke hearts and broccoli. Then I roasted purple and red potatoes in the oven and made a coconut curry sauce to put over them. For dessert I made Swedish chocolate balls. Thanks to a recipe my friend in Australia sent to me. They are a sort of no bake cookie that you roll in coconut. Delicious!

This song is always in my head. Not sure why. I go to sleep at night with it rolling around and I wake up in the morning humming it. There’s always a tune in my head, but this is the one that pops up most often. What song is in your head?

Tonight’s the night when the waters rise
You’re groping in the dark
The ticket takers count the men who can afford the arc
The ticket takers will not board
For the ticket takers are tied
For five and change an hour
They will count the passers by

They say the sky’s the limit
But the sky’s about to fall
Down come all them record books cradle and all
They say before he bit it
That the boxer felt no pain
But somewhere there’s a gamblin’ man
With a ticket in the rain

Mary Anne, I know I’m a long shot
But Mary Anne, what else have you got
I am a ticket taker, many tickets have I torn
And I will be your arc, we will float above the storm

Many years have passed in this river town
I’ve sailed through many traps
I keep a stock of weapons should society collapse
I keep a stock of ammo
One of oil and one of gold
I keep a place for Mary Anne
Soon she will come home
~ The Low Anthem

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Ohio.
Drove out there last weekend to visit a good friend. We had a very relaxing time reading, cooking, watching movies and just hangin out.

Last night it started to snow. Huge beautiful flakes. It was like being inside a snow globe. Or walking through Narnia. It was lovely.

When I woke up this morning it was a silent sunny winter wonderland. I grabbed my camera quick before Jenny picked me up
for our trip to Ohio and captured a few pictures.

They don’t do it justice, but you at least get an idea of how beautiful it was!