Monday, August 10, 2015. Our camping trip on the California Central Coast. Can we just pause for a moment to note how incredible this is that I am actually blogging only 1 WEEK after an event has taken place? Thank you, I know. The first change to this trip was the fact that we got our new mini-van just 2 nights prior to departure. What does this have to do with the trip? Taking off in our new wheels! Sunset, food, family, and a new van. Daddy, leading the way.

Friday, August 31, 2012. For one moment she had a ridiculous and scorching vision of a world in which God Himself would never understand, never take her with full seriousness. Then, at one particular corner of the gooseberry patch, the change came. Dropped down and vanished, unfluttering, into bottomless distance, like a bird in space without air. I loved it so much, I re-read it. And then I re-read it again. And then I typed it here.