The Pretend Wife

Today was a pretty day, nice sunny and warm. What June should feel like. On the dock I was in the middle of my book finding my self getting lost in the words and writing style of the author. I've been somewhat of a bookworm since I've been home, maybe one of the main reasons being because for me, books allow me to look at life through a stranger's eyes and see things how they see them. Unsettling at times, maybe. But I find it calming. When you find yourself content in life and where you think its headed, it almost seems mundane in a way. Through a novel, whatever the plot may be, a narrators voice can suddenly highlight life's truest parts. Complexity. Change. Heart.
I hear the phrase from time to time about how life is beautiful, so enjoy what little time you are allotted. I agree that it is beautiful, but to me that saying falls short. Life is how to see things, how you communicate and love the people you hold close.
Complexity. how each person in your life affects you, both the good and the bad.
Change. the world never does stop spinning, even when you try and hold onto reality with both hands.
Heart. what makes it all worth it.

I am reading The Pretend Wife, by Bridget Asher.
"Did I feel like I deserved more than that? I didn't believe in being entitled to the good life. Life was life. It handed out its sorrows randomly. You took what you got and you found something in it to be thankful for--that was your job as a human being."
my favorite line... "...true love should be a conversation that lasts a lifetime."


Hank&I snuggling...I only get two more months with this pup!