Longings

I have been rereading Hugh Nibley’s The Ancient State. In the second section Tenting, Toll and Taxing it brings me some sense of satisfaction in my perpetual feelings…knowing it is human nature i.e. All my life I have had the sense that, no matter where I am or what I am doing, I should be somewhere else and doing something else. For example when I am at home doing one thing I have a very strong urging to get out and go somewhere else and do something different yet when I get to the place I have decided to go to, to appease that urge I get another strong urge go somewhere else, and not necessarily somewhere specific. It seems that this yearning in me is stronger now that I am older though perhaps I don’t remember just how pulling that yearning was in the past, do to the fact that the “hear and now” is overshadowing the past. I am reminded by Nibley that we are strangers here and have an innate longing for a long lost home. Long drives, especially in the mountains to a degree bring an easy to my suffering but only to a degree!

"I went pee pee on the potty - EEEEE

Three or four times in the last couple of days, our two-year-old granddaughter Alexa called from Queen Creek, Arizona; with the assistance of her mother,Niki,and announced with a loud happy voice, “I went pee-pee in the potty” and jabbered on about other stuff, some unintelligible. She has to tell me and “Grandma.” After telling me, she yells out a loud “EEEEE” or however you spell a loud funny yell. She expects me to “EEEEE” back to her. She laughs when I do. It is something I taught her on one of my trips to Arizona to visit them.

crazy lazy hazy daz of summer

Last night Corey, Stacey, Jayden and Bailey came over to eat and swim. Judy bought barbeque on her way home from work. Jayden and Bailey are really getting to be good swimmers jumping and diving off the diving board etc. Jayden is even diving down and touching the bottom in the deepest part of the pool. And just a short time ago Corey and especially Stacey was nervous about letting them take their life vests off. While we were in Las Vegas last week, Stacey and the kids went to Pineview Reservoir for five days and four nights. The kids got to do a lot of things they don’t normally get to do including fishing and cooking and eating over a camp fire. They slept in their other grandparent’s camper and Stacey’s sister Amy and her husband Dirk and their two boys Damian and Hunter were there too. Jayden and Bailey are very close to Damian and Hunter. This morning I went for a two mile walk in lieu of my hour jogging in the pool. I caught up with Raleigh Huntsman and visited with him the last two thirds of the way or so. I may yet do my pool jogging. As we speak, Corey, Jayden and Bailey are here at the house. Corey had to do some work stuff and school work here because his phone and Internet aren’t working at his house, plus he needed to use our scanner.