The Times they are a Changin..............

I remember I left Slaton, Tx early in the afternoon.
I drove as fast as I could with only one thing on my mind.
Get to Austin as fast as possible and leave west texas in the dust.
A new chapter was starting and I think I smiled the entire drive blasting Damien Jurado as loud as I could thinking I needed to drive faster to ensure my arrival to Austin as early as possible so I could find my way down to Emo's to see Mr. Jurado.
I literally had been in Austin for less than an hour and had stopped by Noah's apartment where I would spend the first night before I sped downtown and parked somewhere on Red River with my car packed so full of stuff I couldn't see out the back window. I literally ran down red river to make my very first entrance to the one and only Emos Alternative Lounging where I saw Damien Jurado perform. Literally my first hour in Austin and I was already seeing one of my current musical favorites. I was bewildered.
I was so excited to finally live in a real city for the first time in my life. I didn't sleep a wink that night at Noah's old apartment in North Austin where I now currently work. I woke up early the next morning or I got up should I say, to speed down to get the key to 615 camino la costa, our loft apartment 10 minutes from downtown and 5 minutes from the community college where I was going to attend culinary school.

Well fast forward 2.5 years later and here I am living in South Austin in our new home, working somewhere doing something i would have only daydreamed of working 2.5 years ago. Milo our dog is asleep on the couch. Leah is in bed.
Some days I forget that my life is pretty much perfect. I forget about the little things. The small things that we seem to forget in our day to day hectic lives.
I just got home from work a little over an hour ago and I have to get up to go back to work in less than 6 hours. But thats ok. Life is good. God is good.
I forget how lucky I am sometimes. I forget how lucky all of us are sometimes.

When you really think about it, life is not about the big things, its really about all the small things. If your 15 then Blink 182 can sum it up for you.

So take some time, try and enjoy the small things in life, the insignificant things that really are very significant. Everyone remembers the big things, graduation, marriage, death, birth, salvation, etc. but not many can remember those small details.


The big things take up only a few moments of our lives but its the small things that make up the seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, and decades of our lives. It's these things that have made us who we are and who we will become.