Joy Leanne

I had a whole blog post written about this photo. About the absolute perfection of that moment, and about all the chaos that came after and how hard things feel in this season. And I deleted it. Some times we get to caught up in the details. Me especially. Maybe it's my journalism training. I can get distracted by the 5 "Ws". Who? What? When? Where? Why? I like to know everything. I have questions and I really want answers. And then there is this... "And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer." Rainer Maria Rilke, 1903 And that is the goal isn't it? To live a life in the tension of hard and beautiful, of grief and gratitude. Learning to live with the questions, knowing we may not have the answers until eternity. Or rather, living with the questions, and realizing that He is ultimately every answer. Today I am le

Once again I abandoned this little corner of my world for a very long time. My long held dreams of being a "writer" (whatever exactly that means) have shifted significantly over the past few years. Because of that this space hasn't felt as important or needed. I more often than not find myself over on Instagram where the pictures are pretty and the writing is brief. But, I keep coming back to this, I believe that stories matter. And more than anything else, this blog has been a place to capture my stories. So, I am hoping to come back here and dust things off and re arrange and make myself comfortable again with the words. Life is an adventure, and I would like to share that. It has been nearly a year since I have written here, and even longer since I have really written about what's going on with me and my crazy clan. I wasn't sure what to start with here and I figure an update is as good an idea as any. A lot has changed in the past year for the five of