Adventures in the Big City
I’ve spent the past few days out here in Chicago, enjoying the company of some of my favorite people. The best is when you haven’t seen someone for a year or more and yet you get together and it’s like you never missed a beat.
Last night, my old roommate Bryan and I walked to the lake front and enjoyed some beautiful views of the moon rising over the water. It drug a long shimmery line of moonlight reflecting across the surface of the lake, and I was seriously convinced that if I could only get on a sailboat and follow that sparkly path, I would end up in Neverneverland.
Bryan and I wandered around the city for hours, ending up in a part of town even he had never been to in the three years he’s lived here. We enjoyed some time sitting in a gazebo while a homeless man peacefully slumbered just a few feet away.
The evening wrapped up with us swinging and playing on slides at 1am, enjoying each other’s company, exchanging philosophical nuggets of contemplations about our own lives, and bursting with pride for where we have come from and who we are now.
I’m so blessed to not only have such amazingly inspiring friends in my life, but to watch them succeed and find happiness in where they are.
Handholding: It's not just for romance anymore.