This image makes me very happy.
Maybe I'm just seriously craving a cheesy goldfish.
Maybe I'm just missing the Paulsons -- Jesse's blue fish, Jace & Trey's sheet set.
Maybe I'm just wishing for times to be simple again.
Maybe, just maybe.

Some Lessons

I've gone through a host of motions & emotions these past few weeks: Ups, downs. Feel goods, feel don'ts. Some things are constant however: Copper's hip shake when I get home from work, the sun still rising, the feeling that the world doesn't know this rollercoaster, but I'm unfamiliar with other rides as well. As I've highlighted in any number of posts to Avid Reader in the past, it's this Space Between that is always familiar yet also so foreign at the same time. And that, I suppose, *is* the Space Between.

Here's what I've learned in the past few weeks:

• Save my hairline, I don't look or feel 39 years old.
• One should not schedule Dr. appts. during one's birthday week.
• I'm thankful to be an educated man going through what I am; and layman's terms in a Dr.'s office should be a must-have, not a nice-to-have.
• Kicking an iced vanilla latte every morning habit is easier done than said.
• I always knew my brother to be more emotional than he lets on; I was reminded.
• I desire time in NYC to reconnect with old friends and to have a place to go out to every night seemingly without a care in the world, though knowing we all had & still have them.
• Getting a good night's sleep is the key to this whole thing; my day is done by 4PM if I don't get 8+ hours/night
• I'm probably not as stressed about things as I should be, but I get out-of-the-blue saddened by them.
• And Copper's hips still shake when I get home from work regardless of how full or empty our respective days have been.