life is messy

 People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.
Dean Kamen

 
 Just keepin' it real around here. Or I may have grown too lazy to wipe my children's faces. Either way, my good friend Laura told me her house was "no place for perfection." Isn't that the best? It totally freed me up to be myself around her, even the messy bits. (which, let's face it, it's mostly messy bits) Thank you, Laura. Our time together and talks on the phone have breathed new life into me. 

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.”

C.S. Lewis