The end of an era

I said it back in April when I strolled around a lake down in southern Missouri with Cass...

"Things are going to start changing. We've got this beautiful group of strong, independent friends, and sometime soon people are going to move away or find someone cool that takes up the better part of their free time. I can feel it. We better appreciate this time while we have it."

So we did. And damnit, I was spot on. We're steadily walking away from the pinnacle of feminine togetherness that we've enjoyed over the last year.

Although I think we all secretly hoped to be the one that found someone cool and got to be "otherwise occupied," it would seem that Elizabeth Sue Young is the first defector...moving to sunnier shores down in North Carolina. Le sigh.

E leaves tomorrow for an indefinite teaching gig, and although it feels like one of my limbs will be missing, I couldn't be more proud of her.

I usually opt for sad, mushy goodbyes, but that's just not how E rolls, and it wouldn't be a fitting tribute.

So, Elizabeth, I give you the best internet gift I could. A kickbutt playlist. I promise to listen to it on repeat - laughing, crying, and reaching for another Boulevard Wheat to keep you near to me.

I love ya, girlie. Go get 'em. We'll miss you.

Tarheeled and Tan

Airplane - Indigo Girls - Rites Of Passage
Recycled Air - The Postal Service - Give Up
Ascension (Don't Ever Wonder) - Maxwell - MTV Unplugged
Fly -Patty Griffin - A Kiss in Time
Destiny - Zero 7 - Simple Things (Bonus)
Big River -Johnny Cash - The Best Of Johnny Cash: San Quentin To Folsom Country
Lady Pilot -Neko Case - Blacklisted
Friends - Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
Desire -U2 - The Best Of 1980-1990
Let There Be Morning -The Perishers - Let There Be Morning
Blinded by the Light - The Streets
Atlantic - Keane - Under the Iron Sea
Little Thoughts - Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Big Calm - Morcheeba - Big Calm
Everything In Its Right Place - Radiohead - Kid A
Falling is Like This - Ani DiFranco - Out of Range
Feelin' Good Again - James Earl Keen
Foreign Language -Anberlin - Blueprints For The Blackmarket
Hold My Hand -Van Hunt - Van Hunt
I Will Bow - Enter The Worship Circle - Second Circle