third annual coffee and sweater walk

for the past three years, bryn and i put on sweaters, make coffee and walk all night. it started the summer after i had finished high school and we decided to make coffee and walk around in our sweaters, and we just ended up walking all night and watching the sun rise from a hill up in west salem. then the next year, we did it all over again, this time with a thermos so we could have hot coffee for the journey. that was the saddest of the three because it was the night before bryn went away to college and was the last time we were going to see each other for many months. like the year before and the year to follow we talked about everything on our minds, deep stuff, spiritual thoughts and struggles, girls, friends, family, arrested development, middle school. the second annual coffee and sweater walked ended with bryn and i hugging and crying, feeling that we'd never be close again and that our friendship would not be the same. i'm glad to say we were wrong. we don't see each other much during the school year, bryn being in saint paul, but we're still very close. this year on the walk, we went from bryns house across the railroad bridge, bryns first time doing so, to dunkin donuts, back to west salem thru river front park, up eola, to the high school, then back to bryns. this was the first year it was cloudy so we couldn't watch the sun rise, but it was nice to see the clouds get a lighter grey. this year we talked about him getting marriage, which i'm so happy for him, them, it's such a rad thing that G-d has blessed him in that way. it's 13 days from now and he will be a married bryn! we also spoke of most things going on in our lives. he's a very good person to talk to, if you haven't gotten the chance to have a "heart to heart" with him, it's something i'd recommend.

anyhow, it's a rad time and i can't wait for the fourth annual!