House That Built Me
The House That Built Me
I know they say you can’t go home again,
I just had to come back one last time,
Ma’am I know you don’t know me from Adam,
But these hand prints on the front steps are mine.
Up those stairs in that little back bedroom,
Is where I did my homework and I learned to play guitar,
I bet you didn’t know under that live oak,
My favorite dog is buried in the yard.
I thought if I could touch this place or feel it,
This brokenness inside me might start healing,
Out here it’s like I’m someone else,
I thought that maybe I could find myself,
If I could just come in I swear I’ll leave,
Won’t take nothin but a memory,
From the house that built me.
Mama cut out pictures of houses for years,
From Better Homes and Garden magazine,
Plans were drawn and concrete poured,
Nail by nail and board by board,
Daddy gave life to mamas dream.
I thought if I could touch this place or feel it,
This brokenness inside me might start healing,
Out here it’s like I’m someone else,
I thought that maybe I could find myself,
If I could just come in I swear I’ll leave,
Won’t take nothin but a memory,
From the house that built me.
You leave home you move on and you do the best you can,
I got lost in this whole world and forgot who I am.
I thought if I could touch this place or feel it,
This brokenness inside me might start healing,
Out here it’s like I’m someone else,
I thought that maybe I could find myself,
If I could walk around I swear I’ll leave,
Won’t take nothin but a memory,
From the house that built me.
these lyrics are submitted by Lauren
these lyrics are last corrected by Abby
Places
Places We Are & Places We Go
“We don’t always get to know why one does the thing that they do, I have come to believe that you have your reason and who am I to question. 54 years old and I am just now realizing that our hidden agendas, our unforeseen needs will over take reason with out knowledge. When mom and dad came to Florida all those years, dad always drew me pictures on a paper plate he kept on the eatery, the whole time they were there, he kept this plate. He would leave me notes at night before he went to bed and in the morning as I would get my coffee from the coffee bar, I became programmed to look for these notes. I still have these paper plates, and the notes. I guess it feels as though he is still there when he leaves.”
I wrote this to my sister, as we go through our lives, we tend to forget each other in ways that causes us to have the need to relearn who we were as sisters. As the years pass, through separation, jobs, out of state moves or just silence, we only remember who our siblings were…not who they are.
If we are blessed enough, we find ways to reconnect. Although remembering that we are different people now, we are still sisters. And some things will never change.
Genetics are hugely strong & for what it’s worth, dependent upon. Helps in a time of wondering where we are or where we are going.
look to someone you love today…..understand them…..except them, as there unforeseen agendas are not a part of you. They are not between anyone but them and God. Reason without knowledge.
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When we love someone unconditionally, we love them as they are, as they were, and as they intend to be. We embrace their past, their present, and their future as a fine intricate detail of who they are. When they speak, we listen to them. When they are still, we stand by their sides. When they need to be left alone, we leave them be, but we continue to love them even when separated by distance.
This nugget is dedicated to my once confidant, whom I believed I could tell anything to and I would never be judged. Whom I trusted with all my heart, whom I’d rather spend time with as to most. The one being of my blood that would truly allow me to be whom I needed to be….Always and ever~
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