#summermeltdown

It is a warm summer night. The lights surround, bright and beautiful. The crowd sways to the beat of the rhythm. Time slows, and emotions rise. Memories flood in. Thoughts of we. Beautifully broken as individuals. Tragically bonded as a pair. So much time spent waiting and wanting, building and planning, breeding and laughing, growing and straining. So many years strong, standing against the odds. Horns blare and reality snaps back. Nahko moves us with his words. Lyrics speaking deep into the soul. "So many parts to a heavy heart","always give what you can even if your allies draw lines in the sand", "she was long gone, too much heavy history", "resurrected stubborn". Looking around at all the pairs, of eyes, of people, of lovers and friends. I find myself alone. In a sea of humans but utterly alone. Time may heal all wounds but growth comes at steep cost and with true pain. The visuals wash over me in waves. Conciousness is expanded. These moments will be lost like footprints on a well walked path. This life is too short to live with regret and the agony of loss is better then to have never had. The message is beautiful. Poetry brought to life. I remember your eyes. Your smile. Your scent. Your laugh. Your temper. Your resilience. The nest we made. The lives we created. The essence of us. The feelings of family. Its all overwhelming. Knowing that it cant go back. Knowing something turned somewhere. Knowing we both made mistakes and never wanted to be too vulnerable or wrong or taken advantage of. The songs will always remind me of us, of you. The sounds connect direct to the memories. The Bear roars triumphantly and the Tribe carries the vibe. The crowd is a buzz with the energy of Medicine. The solos are paired with technicolor dream scenes cast on a silver screen. Images of nature. The passage of time. Of Earth in all its wonderful splendor. The crescendo peaks. The group takes a bow. I imagine us walking together, yearning for your hand to hold, for our warm embrace, but knowing it is just a dream. A fantasy that won't manifest. I wander to the grass and lay looking up at the stars, at the light show. I listen to the festival winding down for the night. To the lovers whsipering sweetly and the friends laughing deeply. The clouds cover the sky and rain starts to fall. It washes over me and covers and cools, it soaks and saturates. A perfect metaphor for what is in my heart. Memories, Music, and Rain...

We went, we saw, we went back home. #SummerMeltdown accident lead to the fastest turn around we've ever done. #skinnedknees are the worse! #eatplaylivecle #momdaughterselfie #summergram (at Downtown Lakewood, Lakewood) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz5vlRJgLJn/?igshid=vid67m11l9lf

Omg what a fun day yesterday!!! I can’t believe that @tarynkisw’s party was basically a straight up festival almost identical to the legendary Summer Meltdown!!! Haha! It was a pre Meltdown melt!!!! Thank you to my love @danimay.red for accompanying me and bringing our fur children Zilla and Mini!!! They loved it too! And it was so sweet to see @bradkism rock out, as well as @woodshedband and the @skablins (ska golbins, get it?! 🤣🤣)! So much fun and so many sweet faces of people I just adore. 🥰 And MAJOR congratulations to Taryn and Brad on their little growing baby boy!!!! I’m going to cry, I’m so excited and happy for them! 😭❤️ (PS isn’t Taryn just the hottest lil preggo mama ever?!?) ahhh... 🤰🏼😍 Ok, and one more shout out to my friend Nathan Reno. I’ve been friends with him for well over ten years, and we use to party together and just get wasted and stupid all the time. It pleases me endlessly to see his wild success in his truly amazing band Woodshed. They are SO good, and one of the best examples of why I constantly praise the PNW music scene so much. 🤘🏼 I’m so glad that we have both grown so much over the years, and totally infiltrated the @999kisw family!!! Muahahahaha... 😂 My heart is just overflowing with love today. ❤️🐐🐶👶🏼☀️🎸🎪🍩🔥🐾✨ . . . . . #woodshed #woodshedband #ska #skablins #summermeltdown #kisw #kiswrockgirl #kiswrockgirls #danimayred #lindseyferrari #goats #goatsofinstagram #seattlemusic #festival #summerfestival #kism (at Stanwood, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bzonh1upyh7/?igshid=1urfodmgd6z26

What is summer melt and what does it have to do with mentorship? Read more link in bio #mentor #summer #summermelt #summermeltdown #college #soar #44soaring #fourforsoaring #four4soaring #faith