SLC Afternoon Nap

I woke up - and after looking around in a daze - I remembered where I was at. Specks of cotton hung in the air, highlighted by the afternoon rays...moving slowly, moving methodically - just like July. Green and grey surrounded me.

After joking for the past two weeks that my family was going to have to have a wedding and a funeral on the same day - I found it ironic that I would choose a cemetery to take a nap in this afternoon.

I was tired and hungry and needed a break.

After scouting out a grassy slope that was shaded by an elm on the west end, I enjoyed a light lunch of a pickle, an apple, some cashews, 2 hard boiled eggs and a water - follow by a light nap - followed by some guitar. I am learning Eva Cassidy's "The Autumn Leaves," - which I will play profusely come Fall - because that's when we met - last Fall - and that's when I'll miss him the most.

The company just happened to be taking naps as well - how convenient.

You know - it's interesting - how when one is surrounded by death - that one focuses on life. At least, that's how it is for me. I think through more thoroughly about my life - what I am doing, why I am doing it; where I am going, why I am going there; what's most important, and am I doing what's most important and what do I need to do to get where I want to be. It's funny how sometimes we want to get somewhere - and yet, don't do what it takes to get there. Probably because it's hard. But usually anything that is really worth it - is hard. It's the hard that makes it good - it's the hard that makes it worth it. It's the hard that makes it valuable and appreciated. My motto used to be DO HARD THINGS! That was a pre-mission motto. Then I went on a mission. And it was hard (at times harder than I had imagined). And it was worth it (at times, more worth it than I had imagined). It was the hard that made it worth it. I am working through a hard situation right now - and am waiting for the worth it part. But it'll come...in what form, I do not know; and which way it will go, I do not know - but it will come. And it will be worth it.

That's a lot of hard and worth it in one paragraph.