Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

My sister (HAVE YOU WATCHED AND RANKED HER MOVIE YET?) has been posting all sorts of amazing pictures from our childhood to her blog/website, and it's been an interesting — and somewhat difficult — experience. My favorite place that I've lived as an adult is Tweed, but when I look at these old pictures of the farm I grew up on, which I have only fleeting memories of, it brings me to the edge of tears at how beautiful it was and how sad I am that everything that was built there is lost to needless conflict… But at the same time, incredibly grateful that I had that wonderful childhood.

Still, I need to get back there; to a place like that, and more so, to a life like that. And I think a lot of people feel the same way; this gut knowledge that we're living wrong and there's a better life just around the corner… And I need Nefarious to experience that gift as well. Anyway, the full sized pictures are on Ashleigh's site but here are a few of my favorites.

It's also hard for me to see these photos because it reminds me that there must be so many beautiful moments that I've experienced but can never remember. I don't know if experiencing something without remembering it gives the moment, the instant that you're feeling it in, a greater purity or not… I think it might. Anyway, back to the farm life, I know that's a dream I keep trying to kickstart over and over both on my own and with others, and so far it's been unsuccessful, but I really want to give it another shot because I really believe that's where I'm happiest.