Hello friend.

Hello friend,

I like to write these blog entries as if we were already in the middle of a conversation. As if this were just another talk amidst a long train of meaningful chatter. Yet another conversation in a long-time friendship. I know that the only people who will see this are those of you who choose to read my writing and the innocent passers-by who happen to stumble upon it while searching for something else, but, I guess, the idea of writing to a friend makes the vastness of this electronic void just a little bit smaller... a little closer.

Tonight, I find myself sitting at my computer with so much to say and not so much time to say it in. I want to talk about movies and music and photography and art...and so many other little bits of nothings that move me in a way I find indescribable. I want to talk about sunsets and snowfalls and laughter and friendship... and all kinds of other amazing gifts that my ramblings don't even begin to do justice. I want to talk about love and life and the heart warming fact that neither one can live without the other. I want to talk about love and life and the gut wrenching fact that sometimes it feels as if they can't coexist at all. I want to talk about dreams, and fears, pasts, and futures. I want to talk about wishes and wants and ideas and thoughts. Needless to say, I want to talk about many things, yet can't seem to muster up the words or the strength to talk about any of them.

What I will talk about, however, is something that has been on my heart for quite some time. Waiting. Waiting is something that is inevitable in all our lives. Something that no one can escape, yet everyone will try. Something that seems so simple in theory, yet is so painfully difficult in it's execution. We wait for so many things in our lives. We wait for love, for jobs, for that "next step". We wait for a letter in the mail, for that phone call after a night out. We wait for our train, our plane, our subway stop. We wait for our Grande Skim Caramel Macchiatto and over-priced lemon square. We wait for something exciting to happen and then we wait for the excitement to subside. At some point... in everyday... we find ourselves waiting for something. We wait impatiently and hopefully. We wait with fear and we wait with baited breath. Regardless.... we wait. I guess what I will say to those of you who came to read this... and even to those of you who have clumsily stumbled across my little corner of the world, is this... whatever it is you're wanting... whatever it is your heart is yearning for... don't be afraid to wait for it. It only makes the moment you receive it greater. It makes that moment a little more worth the wait.

Goodnight friend,
Tempa