Namaste

     Poor Emmaline had a kidney infection this week. The top of the Reeses she gave me when I visited peeled into a heart. Which, normally peeling is annoying, but it's a heart. For friendship or something.

Trying to look cool on the roof of a car...

This year, Venus and Jupiter converged to no further than two degrees apart, appearing to be one third of a degree from some parts of North America. Next year, on August 27th, they'll be just .1 degrees apart. Which is sick. (In May of 2000 they were .01 degrees apart, but too close to the sun to be seen, so next year still wins.)

We were supposed to ride in the pink convertible, but it didn't start so we ran into the slightly less cool orange cadillac.

"I'll take it really close so it looks like a selfie." -Dad

Sparklers make me so nervous. It makes me nervous to think of small children waving 2,000 degree burning metal things around at eye level. But I LOVE them a lot.

Gabriel and madre.

       I want to share a couple of thoughts about love. Specifically the lens of God's love and trying to see through it. Because that is something I am having to work on lately.
       This week, my mother gave me a book called Carry On, Warrior. There's a chapter about love. The author talks about how the conflicting voices of fear and love in our hearts sometimes make it hard to function, but when we are able to tune out fear, love makes everything simple and clear. She also shares the definition of the word namaste: the divine light in me recognizes and honors the divine light in you.

       I am relearning what it means to love a little more like God loves. I am trying to increase my ability to see the divine potential in others. I didn't do very well this week, but that is always okay. What matters is that I'll keep continuing to do slightly better!

       Have a great week!

       Love, Grace