Lotsa Lights

So I kinda sorta watch One Tree Hill. Not obsessively, I've seen a few seasons over the course of a few years. There's one character, Peyton, who has a tough life. Her mom passed away, then she found out her parents had adopted her, met her birth mother, who then died of cancer, had a few different boyfriends, broke up with the boyfriends, had a few massive fights with her best friend, and almost got raped/murdered by a sadistic stalker. She's had a lot of important people in her life leave or abandon her or hurt her. She's also an artist. She has this one picture of a stop light, lit up red, yellow, and green. Beneath the picture it reads, "People always leave." This is kinda her mantra. Whenever someone else disappears from her life the show flashes back to that picture, or wherever she currently has it hanging in her room. Sometimes I'm tempted to think this sort of depressing thought as well. I was thinking about it last night and realized the absolute beauty of that statement. There is a "but." People always leave, but Jesus never will. Happy thought! Humans aren't perfect, and they never will be. People will always mess up, leave, and hurt. They will also love, care, and serve. The great part is, God will never mess up, never leave, and never hurt. He will also always and unconditionally love, care, and serve.


Last night was the annual "camp out for hockey tickets" night at DU. I didn't actually camp out, but I stayed up and chilled with people until around 4 am. At one point I was walking around campus and saw a row of bushes covered in white and blue Christmas light. It was surprising, since it's not exactly Christmas-time, but a very welcome and pleasing sight. I enjoyed the lights immensely.


I think stairs would make a good inanimate object subject of a poem. There are so many different kinds of stairs, spiral and straight, long, narrow, tall, steep, uneven, squeaky, carpeted, the options are endless.


Also, there was a gorgeous sunset today, just sayin'.


P.S. Pretend this was posted on Friday, September 24, 2010