oh europe, you bring the crossroads to us.
of course devin's path is completely different because of the two years he spent living in sweden. nothing altered his course so drastically up to that point of his life.
in germany, a few days before my nineteen birthday, i got my first european battlewound: a softened heart and a broken eye socket. i stood at the fork then, and tried to make the best decision i could.
then together we came back last summer. a particularly poignant decision occured in paris when our credit cards were frozen for renting bikes, we lost forty dollars, and we had booked our hotel for the month previous and had no where to stay- all in about five hours, and we were unclear about our future job. i think it was one of our lower notes in life. we plowed forward.
then of course came the miracle, on a flight home from europe in 2009 we met the owner of the company we now work for. hard to believe that was merely fate.
now, here again in twenty ten, revisitng the same tutelage, the same proving grounds. like how to have a soft heart, how to get by on less, and how to be away from family when the road gets tough.
europe is no different than anywhere else. it's just a place to learn
our heaven on earth. 2009 interlocken, switzerland.
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Marilee, you come home soon!!! When exactly is that? I was thinking about it the other day, and the beehive girls were asking today:)
We're excited to have some friends back.
So our little family just got to my parents a couple hours ago for Thanksgiving... I was in the living room and was looking at the painting your grandma did and said to Kendrick how its crazy what a small world we live in that your grandmas painting is hanging in my parents house. Jake asked me what I was saying and I said,"Marilee's grandma painted that picture." Kendrick asked him if he remembered you guys and he said, "Ya, they so far away.":) We're thinking of you even though you're so far away!! Hope you have a WONDERFUL Thanksgiving.
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