#t-11

ink-stained fingerprint:

there are a few things on my mind today. your sleepy eyes. how warm you feel. wishing i could be there to pull up the blankets for you. you returning to the valley, that wonderful place where we can hold hands and kiss in public and it’s nothing and everything. how you keep going back to florida, keep facing things, even though it’s exhausting. how much you love your brothers and your mom (and all the cookies you had over break, so now you’re extra soft). how we have five months of uninterrupted interaction—and how you promise me a future. 

i have had this fountain pen since ninth grade. a week ago i thought it had finally given out, but all it needed was a couple of shakes to get used to ink flow again. maybe that’s how you are. resilient. deserving of rest. 

T-11 parachutes lie ready to be issued to paratroopers, assigned to 173rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), to conduct a combat training jump from a C-130 Hercules into Bunker Drop Zone at the 7th Army Joint Multinational Training Command's Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, Oct. 22, 2013. (U.S. Army Photo by Visual Information Specialist Gertrud Zacch)

T-11 parachute, a pain in the ass to shakeout but land so soft....How I miss jumping, best feeling the world.