Green & Gold

I went to Baylor.. so I have some deep love in my heart for the green and the gold.

I'm blessed to have a few trips lined up this month, the first of which was to Waco last weekend for the Fantastical Church Music Festival (put on by David Crowder, also a Baylor Bear).. While Stevie, Shane, Landon, Parker, and Shelly were learning about Church music through new eyes, I was learning my own lessons.. gaining new perspective..

It was fun being back in Waco.. not that I missed living there, particularly, but just the nostalgia of that time in my life. I set out for the first time, really. There. On campus, in Waco. Not really all that far from 'home'. I can remember my parents driving me to school.. helping me unload the last of my things into my dorm room.. and I can remember *vividly* seeing my family drive away through the blur of tears in my eyes.

You see, I was from a small town.. attended school with the same people from pre-K on through graduation from Hays. It was huge for me to be even the miniscule 100 miles from home on a foreign school campus. Huge.

And this month marks about 10 and a 1/2 years since I left the Waco campus for Baylor's Nursing School in Dallas.. where did THAT time go?! Good grief. I walked around campus with my sister in law, Stephanie.. half glad that college (and all the studying involved) is way behind me.. and half sad, missing the 'campus-life' and my sorority girlfriends and roommates..

But this, my current life, is the open chapter and I must read it.. can't keep flipping back to earlier chapters, though I can learn (with the perspective of distance and some wisdom gained with age) lessons from those earlier chapters.

For now, I'll just enjoy my semi-regular trips to Waco to shop at Spice, drink frozen milky-way's at Common Grounds, and peruse the campus Bookstore.