Catherine posted several blogs last night/today. One of the blogs, she talks about how there is a photo contest for students to enter pictures they have taken at Brown this school year. I have only selected a few pictures to put here, maybe someone reads my blog and they don't read Catherine's. I don't mean to plagiarize (I assume you can do that with photos as well as writings). I just was so blown away with the extreme beauty. I can only imagine what it is like to live there and see these sights daily.
This first picture, I asked Catherine about, and yes, it is like that for several weeks
This next one is also a winter scene, but the buildings are beautiful, the sky is amazing and it is important to show this one before the next one.
And now I might be mistaken, but I believe these are the same buildings, the same court yard, but obviously a different season.
So her having posted those photo entries, and seeing the beauty, and knowing of the life changing experiences she is having, she also admits to being a little homesick. Family, friends, and Texas. She included in her blog a video from the Dixie Chicks..."Wide Open Spaces". I admit to liking the DC's.......not their politics, but their music. And I admit, when I have heard this song on the radio, I could have pretended to sing along, at least with the chorus..........but, I never really listened to the first part. When I did, I thought, "how Catherine" to put a song that so perfectly fit........so, for you readers, I am going to put the first few lines...........to read..........to understand, as I did, just a little bit of what my youngest daughter must have been and is experiencing in her life this past year.
Who doesn't know what I'm talking about.
Who's never left home, who's never struck out.
To find a dream, and a life of their own,
a place in the clouds, a foundation of stone.
Many precede and many will follow.
A young girls dreams no longer hollow
It takes the shape of a place out west (east)
But what it holds for her, she hasn't yet guessed.
She needs, Wide Open spaces
room to make big mistakes,
She needs, new faces,
she knows the highest stakes.
She traveled this road as a child.
wide eyed and grinning she never tired.
But now she won't be coming back with the rest,
If these are life's lessons, she'll take this test.......
Catherine took a leap of faith, she left to attend a college, thousands of miles away, not just up the road. She left saying "I can do it", "I want to do it", and I know in my heart, she will do it. For I too have faith, she just needs "Wide Open Spaces".
Oh how I miss her, look forward to her time home this summer.
Catherine
Monday, May 12, 2008
Posted by Jami at 5:23 PM
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the time is here
Those pictures are just amazing. I especially LOVE the second one!!!
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