To Dust You Shall Return

Still a beauty

Yet I know that your lifeline has been cut

That though you still breathe

You already belong to death

You aren’t yet faded

But you are fading

And Time- he soon will leave your side

As you will in turn leave us

We who are now realizing

Between womb and tomb

We came from earth

Then to work the earth

Until we are buried in our precious earth

Now realizing that as we grow older

Our time is constantly growing smaller

We are all slowly dying

Arriving on hospital beds

Then leaving how we came

Frail, helpless, afraid

On a hospital bed.

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I'm Definitely in Texas

I'm currently in Georgetown. I just had a barista ask for my name, then ask me to repeat it, then create a completely new spelling. "MADILLAN." After YEARS of seeing the most creative efforts of the coffee industry, this 20-something-year-old still managed to impress me. But hey, i get it. My name is quite a handful. MADELEINE MCILHERAN doesn’t exactly sound like the name of a lullaby. Unfortunately, after having recorded this completely original name in sharpie on a plastic cup, he then thought to ask me how it was spelled. Luckily I have this part of the usual exchange down. "That's close enough." (I will miss seeing the correct spelling of my name regularly.)

odd·i·ty /ˈäditē/

Have you ever noticed How most everyone now Calls that which is b eyond their comprehension Odd- Yet we wonder why our lives seem to be surrounded by peculiarity. "It doesn't take a genius to see that the world has problems ." "No, but it takes a room full of morons to think they're small enough for you to handle." - Watchmen So much is beyond our comprehension, Yet we seem satisfied with the 1% we have- When we don't even know if that one percent is truly out of a hundred. Or one thousand. Or one million.

Expeditious

"Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ." ~ 1 Peter 1:13

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