Re Ann, Justice, and Katelyn after Katelyn’s Graduation on May 28, 2022 — Image by kenne
“Wear sunscreen.
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they’ve faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you’ll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.
Don’t worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.”
— from Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young by Mary Schmich
The Resendez and Turner Families Hosted a Pool Party for Graduates Katelyn Turner and Robert Resendez in Atascocita, Texas, May 29, 2022 — Images by kenne (Click on any image to view in slideshow format.)
Katelyn and Re Ann (On the Left) Jumping In The Pool
At the top of the pass the trail crosses a rockfall, a slope of loose slate as old as the mountain, as deep as the valley below. Out of the rocks an arch has been stacked, straddling the path. The stones, tall enough for a tall man, lean at the top until gravity tips them together in a curve as clean as the arc of the earth. The arch should not stand. No mortar, no scaffold of sticks. No tricks of buttress or blocking. Only this surprising geometry of stones balanced across the sky. Not a slate out of place. Picked from the rockpile by a painstaking hand, the chosen few remain, stacked by shape and grain and weight. At the top of the world, a gate.
Recently I reblogged a post from 2009 of granddaughter Katelyn and myself, who we visited on our road trip stop in Houston. The reblog had the following preface:
“Yesterday, we visited David, Janie, and Katelyn in their new home before going out to dinner. Unfortunately, I didn’t take any new photos distracted by the running dialog of trying to share everything that has happened over the past two years and the not-expected destroying of Joy’s leather purse by one of their dogs. So, I will add that she is a beautiful young woman about to start her senior year in high school.”
Since daughter Katie follows my blog, she texted a recent image of her and Katelyn taken when she visited Kately, Janie, and David in July.
Kate and Katelyn (“The Gates of Heven Must Be Open, I Just Saw Two Angels”)– Image by Kate
As for the purse, Janie has ordered Joy a new handbag. Thank you, Janie!
Follow what you love! . . Don’t deign to ask what “they” are looking for out there. Ask what you have inside. Follow noy your interests, which change, but what you are and what you love, which will and should not change.
Two-Year Old Katelyn, Christmas ’05 — Image by kenne
Becoming is Superior to Being 