Put a Pin in it

I'm learning that:

• making a choice to change your dream for the future is really scary, but it brings peace, too.
• raspberry plants can't stand up to digging dogs.
• nobody thirty or older is managing our long winters with any sort of good humor.
• everybody gets the schedule wrong sometimes. Some of us do so more than others.
• prayer is a simple and complex intimacy. Belief, likewise.
• the ice cream truck always comes at bed time.
• relationships are hard. They don't have to be, but they are anyway.
• mercy looks like weakness to an angry world.
• teenagers are laugh-out-loud funny most of the time.
• we need each other like we need oxygen, water, bread...M&M's
• spiders are frighteningly adaptable...and teensy enough to get in anywhere, anytime.
• many well-laid fire pit plans are undone by bossy prairie winds.