"we watched you plant your spirit in the garden of your muddy grace next to an abandoned field of credit cards that had long since expired. Each card bearing the name of someone you needed to put in the ground... & you were waiting for a hard rain to wash your past away...But the downpour didn't come, and you pushed me into the hole that I'd dug. On top of my body you piled all of our glow-in-the-dark memories. Memories as hard as my head and as soft as your neck. Memories as radiant and as bruised as my hypersensitive grace.Memories that not even your haiku conversations, sparse from words you never had the courage to say,can obliterate.'"-T.Debartolo
Four-year-old Paige Bennethum really, really didn’t want her daddy to go to Iraq. So much that when Army Reservist Staff Sgt. Brett Bennethum lined up in formation at his deployment this July, she couldn’t let go. No one had the heart to pull her away. Everyone should stop reblogging hipster photos and reblog this, it won’t ruin your ‘type’ of blog.
: ( tear! my friend eric gets back from his second tour in Afghanistan on the 17th : )
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I got teary eyed ;(
imperfection—beauty:
Four-year-old Paige Bennethum really, really didn’t want her daddy to go to Iraq. So much that when Army Reservist Staff...