thinking of you from the sky.

a post for my shanty people:

there's a line in a painful, unrequited love song that we love so much {an indigo girls song, if you wanna know} that goes

the mississippi's might, but it starts in minnesota 

at a place that you could walk across with five steps down.

then it goes on to say

and i guess that's how you started like a pinprick to my heart

but at this point you rush right through me and i start to drown.

but that's beside the point.

i just love that song so much. it makes so much sense to a girl freshly un-loved. 

mom: not me. not now. but i've been there.

i took this photo from the sky as i started the decent into the minneapolis airport.

i felt silly pulling my phone out to take a picture at the most, by all outward appearances, unassuming, inconsequential moment of the flight.  i hesitated a couple times... and then i remembered i didn't care what the strangers thought.

{besides, my seat mates were impressed with my knitting skills. that counted for something.}

having just come off a week long high of laughing and laughing and laughing with robin... and texting the rest of 'em at particularly shanty-ful moments... i was feeling very nostalgic for the early y2k years.

cheers to the shanty.

and the "i love y'all so much i could burst" moments we feel at the most unexpected times.