Johnson Family Dish

For Grandma

Spring.

Irises in bloom

Beauty, but you

are more lovely.

I remember

loving you

belonging with you.

“Love,” you would say.

Seasons

of play.

Fishing, snowing, baking

together.

 Winter

came too soon.

But, I still see you

in the spring.

Enduring.

Forever, you smile at me

and I see

people in your face.

People

I love.

With Me

You are always there,

     Though miles away.

How I wished that it was more

     than just a haunting memory.

But, that would be asking you to be

     something you’re not.

Can’t get blood from a turnip

     they always say.

But, you’re there.

     Even when I don’t want you to be.

Thinking……

We’ve all had one of those awkward moments where we really don’t know what to do with the experience we are living.  Reflecting back to those awkward, cataclysmic moments we see how the stars must have been moving us towards that particular moment for some time before its unfolding.  Taking thier time, arranging everything perfectly so that when time and circumstance finally line up, the scene bursts into being like a force of nature for which we are helpless against.

Caught off gaurd, we find ourselves an observer, watching the unavoidable run its course.  Anything we do, or don’t do, only adds to the disaster;  there is nothing you can do to prevent it.  So, there you sit perched up in a tree somewhere, watching yourself frame by frame.

Biosphere 2

What a bizzare place! 

Our family took a trip out to Oracle yesterday with my honors group to have a tour of the Biosphere 2. 

My impressions:  It was so much smaller than I had pictured in my head.  200+ million dollars to build this thing, seems like a lot of good could have been done towards some other cause (but, that is just me).  There is not a chance in Hades that I would EVER live in one of these, here or on some other planet; ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?!?!  I will stay on planet earth, thank you ever so much.

Our guide said something that really stuck with me.  We can try to mimic nature but we cannot duplicate it; it is too complex.  Even with the greatest minds all working together, we can try but we cannot duplicate nature.  Thank you, another testimony of God, our father and creator.

Now, our children, on the other hand, would love to live in the biosphere.  Crazy kids!!  I thought it was great how it sparked thier imagination.  Scott especially loves science which made it fun to watch him here make connections and putting things together that he learned there and that he had learned at school.