sienna says.

backsides of mountains & human nature

I'm reading a good book right now. It pulls me in and holds me tight, like my brown and white quilt during an air conditioned night. I didn't mean to rhyme there.

I'm not much of a reader. I've always tried and I've always wanted it. I've wanted to sit for hours at my kitchen table or leaning against my bed, or just plop down on our way too comfy couch and read. for one hour. maybe two. even the whole afternoon. I hear of people who can do that and I like how they talk and how they write and I like where they choose to place periods and commas and I like how their minds think. I always find myself in this impossible predicament... never being able to get past the 3rd or 4th chapter. There's been the few rare ones that have captured my fleeting atention and kept me content and quiet long enough to read their tale. Jane Eyre, life of pi, lisa beamer's "let's roll" (don't laugh.), sophie's world, little woman, the hobbit, and good ol' harry... but I wish i've read more. I will continue to try though. to sit. to be still. to take in. to stretch my mind even when it tells me it's tired and even when it tries to refuse. This summer I've started half a dozen books and returned them to their dirty shelf barely before hittig their third chapter. I'm not proud of it. I found this one though last week...It was lying on the stair well. the color and font made me pick it up. I remembered Kyrie, buried in it the day before on the way to church. I asked her if it was any good and she gave me one of those deep nods and opened her eyes real big. That meant it was good. It's called "for one more day." It's an easy one... not very long. small little red book. but it pulled me in and it's words made me jelous and I wish I could write as well as Mitch Albom.

I liked this part.

"It's funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said without a doubt descending, because ascending you were so focused on reaching the top, you avoided mistakes. The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature. You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up."

I really like looking at something fresh. Mitch Albom did it here. Life is like mountain climbing. no matter if you're going up or down. you've got to care.