Ordinary Life

PIRATE vs NINJA Can you predict who will win?

Trust means eyes wide open and without fear. Digging for dirt and coming up empty handed. Poking in darkened corners at formless air. Trust means looking at the internet cache and not being afraid of what you'll find there. Trust means knowing that anything you happen to find comes with a safe and honest explanation. Trust does not mean blindness or looking the other way. Trust isn't naivety or even oblivion... Trust never blindfolds or witholds the truth. Trust doesn't create darkness, It simply offers to guide one safely through it. It never says "There's no chance of falling" But, "I'll catch you if you do, but not only that I will take care of you until your balance returns" Perhaps a good acronym would be: T o R ely U pon S omeone (else)'s T ruthfulness

I should let it go, I know that. I am bigger than these silly trivial matters- or I should know how to be bigger by now, but like an "I Told You So" just bursting to get out, so too, is an "I Knew It" or an"I Saw It Coming"---or both. " Aletheia Academy" had 'recess' at the park today. It was a beautiful day and we combined the play time with some learning activities - win, win, right? Sure, a perfectly suitable, and enjoyable I might add, educational and play time experience, until the fleet of mini van moms rolled in with their less than school age troupe and rained on our "before public school lets out" parade. "There she goes- proving that those homeschool moms really are trying to stay away from the rest of the whole wide world" I can hear you tsking - but Wait! Let me finish-- It wasn't their company or even the mass amount of little children pouring from their vans like clowns at the circus that changed t...