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Open Letter to Clint
By Kristin Trapp
You once told
me “Kristin you
can only have roots or wings and you need to choose one.”
I never really understood it, but have been
giving it a lot of thought. You see,
since you have been gone I took a little trip, a way of clearing my
head and
trying to make sense out of my life. But
all the while I kept your statement in my head and now
in my
heart. In a few days I will have
completely sailed around the world, stopping every few days in a
different port
and experiencing things I never imagined. I
know that if I would have stayed true to my roots I
would have never
experienced any of this, but here is where your statement meets a grey
area. I now have a better understanding
of my roots and this clarity came to me when I was farthest from them. I appreciate where I come from now more than
ever and it is all thanks to this trip. The
distance that my new wings gave me allowed my roots to
grow deeper
and stronger than ever. Maybe you were
right, I can only choose one, but if it hadn’t been for these wings I
would
never fully appreciate the work that my roots did to become as deep and
as
strong as they are. So if you are out
there reading this, stretching a new pair of wings does not damage your
roots,
only strengthens them and maybe this is just one time in life you can
have
both.
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