Cold Tangerines

Last summer I read something that inspired me to write, but at the time didn't feel like it went with this blog and decided it was time to start a new blog. This was my first entry.


The inspiration for this new blog came from a book titled "Cold Tangerines" by Shauna Niequist. It's a book about the extraordinary moments hidden in everyday life. I feel like I have out-grown my old blog, but I miss writing so when I read about the cold tangerines, I thought it was a great idea for a new blog.

"I want a life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud. And I don't want to get to the end, or to tomorrow even, and realize that my life is a collection of meetings and pop cans and errands and receipts and dirty dishes. I want to eat cold tangerines and sing out loud in the car with the windows open and wear pink shoes and stay up all night laughing and paint my walls the exact color of the sky right now. I want to sleep hard on clean white sheets and throw parties and eat ripe tomatoes and read books so good they make me jump up and down, and I want my everyday to make God belly laugh, glad that he gave life to someone who loves the gift." ~Shauna Niequist

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!” ~ Hunter S. Thompson.

That is what this blog is going to be about. Living life. I just feel like we are really kicking life's ass right now. Everything's not perfect, but we're doing it. Sometimes there's not enough money and sometimes I forget to turn the oven off, sometimes the dogs eat the whole pan of 7-layer cookies while they're cooling or the AC in my car quits working, but that's all part of it.




I have since decided to scrap that "new" blog. We don't really just get to start over with new blogs and pretend the old ones don't exist. The old blog is part of what got us to the new blog. I ran across the new blog this morning and was borderline embarrassed by its existence so I'm deleting it, but I stand by these words so I think they should be published somewhere.