Kaitlyn and Missy have a private joke. "Change your hair, change your life." The lesson is: if you want something to change, take action. It's simple. Except when it's not. Sometimes change is something we yearn for and pursue. We pull on our boots and face it head on, welcoming a move to something, some place different. We embrace the edge of anxiety, relish the sense of disequilibrium that comes with growth. Sometimes we fight it, kicking and screaming, digging in our heels in futile resistance. And sometimes, like this summer, we take it all in, and just try to keep breathing, praying a lot. This has been the summer of letting go. Zach finished at Oregon State and came home. For a week. He got a job at Walla Walla Juvenile Justice Center. He got married. He moved into a cute little apartment with his beautiful wife. There are a lot of changes in that last paragraph. Changes that he worked for, dreamed...
...keep on keepin' on