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Category: Brian Andreas

I used to believe my father about everything but then I had children myself & now I see how much stuff you make up just to keep yourself from going crazy.

credibility, parenting

I used to wait for a sign, she said, before I did anything. Then one night I had a dream & an angel in black tights came to me & said, you can start any time now, & then I asked is this a sign? & the angel started laughing & I woke up. Now, I think the whole world is filled with signs, but if there’s no laughter, I know they’re not for me.

laughter, signs, visions

The first time her laughter unfurled its wings in the wind, we knew that the world would never be the same”-

I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.

boundaries, geography, jared-wheat, mountain, mountains, no-boundaries, paying-attention, personal-boundaries, river, rivers, secret, secret-of-life, secrets, the-biggest-secret

There was a single blue line of crayon drawn across every wall in the house. What does it mean? I asked. A pirate needs the sight of the sea, he said and then he pulled his eye patch down and turned and sailed away.

imagination, pirates, sea

That was the day the ancient songs of blood and war spilled from a hole in the skyAnd there was a long moment as we listened and fell silent in our griefand then one by one, we stood talland came togetherand began to sing of life and love and all that is good and trueAnd I will never forget that day when the ancient songs died because there was no one in the world to sing them.

ancient, music, songs, war

You may not remember the time you let me go first. Or the time you dropped back to tell me it wasn’t that far to go. Or the time you waited at the crossroads for me to catch up. You may not remember any of those, but I do and this is what I have to say to you: Today, no matter what it takes, we ride home together.

crossroads, friendship, together

In those days, we finally chose to walk like giants and hold the world in arms grown strong with loveAnd there may be many things we forget in the days to come,But this will not be one of them.

love, remember, strength

There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise.

children, story-people

I sometimes wake in the early morning & listen to the soft breathing of my child & I think to myself, this is one thing I will never regret & I carry that quiet with me all day long.

We sat in the car & the night droppeddown until the only sounds werethe crickets &the dance of our voices& for a momentthe world becamesmall enough toroll back & forth between us.

car, night, understanding, world

I held her close for only a short time, but after she was gone, I’d see her smile on the face of a perfect stranger and I knew she would be there with me all the rest of my days.