showing up

"Life is a call sheet," Emma wrote in the 'The Slush Pile Reader.' "You're supposed to show up when they tell you, but that's the only rule."

(excerpted from Until I Find You by john irving)

i believe emma had it right. all we really have to do is show up. but you can't half-ass show up. we have to show up in mind, body and spirit. we have to really be there. here. now. not here, but our mind is there. or here, but really in tomorrow or yesterday or is-it-five-o'clock-yet.

tonight i had a date with luke. he showed up and so did i. it had to rank right up there as one of the best friday nights ever.

and that was only my first friday night. i have a second one starting soon. i'll show up for that one too. can't think of anywhere else i'd rather be.

d: more showing up
b: my luke is the most sensitive and loving and protective of his mom star-wars-freak this side of the perimeter. or maybe the world.
g: the campers left. finally.