give and take

"To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did."

true story.

No one is perfect.
Communication is key.
Honesty is crucial.
Trust is hard.
Listening is a skill.
Understanding is tricky.
Forgiveness is necessary.
Bonds are unbreakable.

thanks, gracias, merci, dank, grazie...

thank you.

it's a simple phrase(in any language)... yet a phrase not heard enough.

just letting your appreciation be known can make all the difference.

it's simple, it's easy, it's effortless. what's odd is we often say it more to the people we don't even know than to the people in our lives that we care about the most. we'll say thanks to the stranger that held open a door, we'll send an appreciative wave to a car that let you in the lane you needed, we say thank you and have a nice day to a cashier in a store. we don't know these people personally yet we show them our appreciation. why? because that is what we are taught to do, because it's habit, because we actually do want to thank them for their time and effort? maybe.

so why is it so difficult and so rare that we say it to those we love? who knows.

summer twenty-ten

things to do this summer after my return to the stl:

cardinals baseball games- the defination of a stl summer

free outdoor concerts at botanical gardens- wednesday nights after 5:00pm

free shakespear in the park- May 26th to June 20th 8:00pm nightly except tue and sat

the muny in the free seats- gate opens at 7:00pm

st. louis zoo to see erin workin

anheuser-busch free brewery tour

ted drews frozen custard with her sissy

take down a pointersaurus with some friends

overland bar crawl with the rhs crowd

laumeier sculpture park

free live on the levee concerts

fast eddies

sand volleyball at creve coeur park

float trip

six flags

hot tub nights at marty's

hopefully chicago after emily gets back from italy


I'm sure there's plenty more things that have been brought up but that's all I have for now...


toodles