Towers of Truth surrounded by Moats of Glory

I asked you a question
I didn't need you to reply
Is it getting heavy?
And then realize
It's getting heavy
Well I thought it was already as heavy as can be

Is it overwhelming
To use a crane to crush a fly?
It's a good time for Superman
To lift the sun into the sky
Cause it's getting heavy
Well I thought it was already as heavy as can be

Tell everybody
Waiting for Superman
That they should try to
Hold on the best they can
He hasn't dropped them, forgot them or anything
It's just too heavy for Superman to lift

- Iron and Wine "Waiting for a Superman"


Listened to this song sitting on the couch and forking through the risotto I made for dinner. What is with risotto? Yes, it is good. Moistly laddened rice with that nice creamy italian flavor bouncing off of it. Oh yeah, delightful you say. But seriously, it so time consuming to cook and by the end of the whole ordeal all i could do is fork through it. I think I needed to take my mind off whatever my mind was rambling on about so I decided to make something that you need to stand over and stir for 1 hour to cook. All worth it in the end? Sure.

All I could do is listen to that song though. Something about it just makes sense. What a weekend. After Chris had a close call with death in a car accident and then getting texts all afternoon from my cousin Kathy that her son Tommy (one of my favorite people in the world) was in intensive care and maybe going to die all in one day I thought I would have a heart attack at age 28! Then I got the stomach flu, had run ins with not so desirable people, had to work and put on a happy face when all a girl wanted was to hide in comfy pants and watch movies all day cozy time.

Ahh, well all is back in order now and I am up and carrying the blocks of life and the pails of water to rebuild. They will get heavy again. Inevitable. Yet, we have to just look forward to all the days in which what we carry with us feels light and easy. When they get too heavy to carry we will put them down, take a break and get up to walk again. With those blocks we will build beautiful towers of truth encircled by clear moats of glory of that not so heavy water we carried. That water that we never spilled on the long walk to our building site.

Because we all our here to build something. Weather it is metaphorical or not doesn't really matter. Lets be honest with ourselves here. We are all in it together. So don't waste another minute. If someone else dropped their heavy pails then, by gosh, help them pick it up. Human beings are too complicated for our own good. Yet innately I feel like we just want to make wonderful things happen, be progressive, and have fun in the process. So in my mind that means we go forth down this road, whatever road it may be, and we build something useful together. It makes us see that nothing is that heavy other then our minds sometimes and that really each one of us is one little lucky schmuck taking time for granted again.