If you had knowledge that you were only going to live for short while longer, what would you do? Would you quit your job? Would you confess to that long lost love how much you miss them? Would you take that trip that you have put off for years? Would you tell anyone that you were going to die soon?

I try to live each day to the fullest but in my heart I know that I do not. I cheat life by borrowing time from tomorrow casting my hopes of a more fulfilling life onto another day. Some of what I want most before I die is to put my toes in wet sands, run against the wind, and sing songs loudly and robustly, hug my daddy, take another extra long road trip, attend another great concert, learn how to cook crepes, look into my children’s eyes and say “I love you”, and watch spectacular sunsets on the porch with my soulmate.

Some of these things I can do today. Some of these I cannot. But the sentiment is to live each day better than the next, to smile a bit more in spite of the trials, to forgive more and more, and to love more fully and completely this life that God has given me.

A Random Compliment

Last night, I went to this bar to hear my favorite DJ and had an absolute grand time. It really solidified why being in your 20s is one of best times in your life. After slurping down an Amstel Light or two I recieve the strangest compliment. I was waiting in line to use the ladies room and this older white-haired gentlemen reaches over to shake my hand. He looks at me and either says, "You are one handsome fool" or "You are a handful of cool". He was drunk. I was knocking on drunk's door so who knows what he said. I just laughed...