Blonde Antithesis

The Eve of Tomorrow

On the eve of tomorrow, I will live for today

Trading the sorrows I bore yesterday.

On the ledge of forever, forgetting the fear

I will cast off each burden I’ve collected this year.

In the twilight of what has been, I’ll see what could be

As I step on to the promise that’s waiting for me.

On the eve of tomorrow, I know only too well

That the pathway to Heaven often leads close to Hell,

And each step toward the future may seem further from home

But with constant reminders that I’m never alone.

So tonight as the sun sets and fades on away,

I will choose to remember the things that will stay-

The cherished and unbroken, the tried and the true

The love that has changed me and carried me through.

For tomorrow is calling and it must be embraced

So I have to keep running and finish this race.

When the sun rises tomorrow, may I not be found here -

Staring back at the ashes and still gathering tears

Rather, may I be changing and moving - as day follows day

Living out in tomorrow lessons learned yesterday.

Tomorrow’s eve is upon us - a chapter closing once more

Let the past go it’s own way, for the dawn’s at the door!

So goodbye to the days gone - goodbye and farewell

All the lessons you’ve taught me…well, tomorrow will tell. - A.L.B.

so our time by the sea is done.

the beach in december can be beautiful…and cold. the weather has been unseasonably warm, but sitting by the ocean, it can turn cold in a moment. the ocean looked dark and ominous. but still, it’s an awesome thing to be able to play at the beach in the wintertime.

tomorrow it all begins again - the meetings, the planning, the busyness. it’s good to be busy, but i do need to pace myself - january will be a crazy month…i hope i’m ready for it all.

tomorrow night i will watch fireworks and think of how they are like 2007: crazy, loud, rapid fire, constantly changing, and beautiful…from a distance. i do think 2007 will seem much more beautiful to me once i’m a little further away from it.

i can still hear the ocean…

i hope it doesn’t fade too quickly.

goodnight.

peace.

…I’m not sure what it is about me - maybe because I was born in the summer - but water always calms me. I’m always drawn to the ocean.

This morning, walking on the beach, I was thinking about why it’s so peaceful to me - even though there are lots of people around.

I think it’s because no matter how noisy or busy the beach gets, the ocean is bigger and louder than the noise - it makes all the craziness seem so small and insignificant. It is powerful enough to drown it all out.

The sound of the ocean, the waves crashing, the kids laughing and playing…it drowns out all of the “noise” of life.

It centers me.

When I get back to the real world, I need to remember the rhythm of the sea - so I can just close my eyes, hear it in my soul, and let it drown out the noise…

…it’s like the whispers of God.

“It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace.

“No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.”

-Robert Frost