Heaven on Earth

I was so blessed to be able to drive down to St. George and witness my brother’s family being sealed together for time and all eternity in the temple. What a miracle it is to see them so happy as they embark on this eternal pathway back towards heaven.

I love the St. George temple, it means a lot to me, as it does to my brother. The temple has long been a stopping place for us on our travels and it especially came to mean a lot to me one year after traveling back to California to visit friends.

We were very tired so we stopped for a few hours in St. George and just walked the temple grounds and talked about things. We went on their tour (my 4^th time on the tour).

I’m so grateful for temples, for the hard work and sacrifice that went into building this temple. Some of our ancestry was involved in the construction of this temple. Walking through the temple, I could not help but feel that it was a personal and wonderful place. I wrote a poem about some of the thoughts and musings that came to me afterwords.

The Other Side (Of This Room)

We live in world companioned with an unseen parallel,

silent copy, hopeful twin

invisible in every other place

but this room.

I watched them discover, they could see

the other side of this room

by looking forwards and backwards

into mirrors, frames

painting ahead and behind them, and opening infinity all around them.

They stood, suddenly seeing.

One waved to the future

and the past replied with a similar gesture,

and smiles transformed the generations.

The coin was turned,

not thumbed into random motion,

but keyed

into this position.

Heaven and earth touched each other.

One finger reached up, the other down

and contact was made—

in this place.

And it became celestial,

and so did they,

he said it felt just like home.

What Lies Beneath

Every once in a while I get the urge to deep clean. What I mean by this is that I go digging. In this case, it was under the bed. I had been doing a colossal amount of laundry, even wrote a poem about it. I spied a sock hidden beneath a pile of empty plastic bottles. I nabbed the sock and added it to my laundry load. I returned to the bed and pulled out over 200 plastic bottles. Only 3 were on my side of the bed…so you can imagine whose side I put all 200 bottles on under the covers. Just kidding. I nabbed a picture and then collapsed them so they’d fit in a plastic bag. And yes, I recycled them.

Do you realize?

Do you realize, those things in the corner?

Yes, those piled up clothes—

they await the magician,

they await… you.

They long to dance, and

yes, they long to move;

they have waited at least a week

or, perhaps it has already been two.

Do you realize, the soul is present?

Yes, present…in the being of you—

you could animate many forms,

yes, this you could truly do

you could breathe motion

into their defeated frames.

All of this—yes, this—

you could do,

if you did so choose.

(c)Brianna Kent 2010

Warehouse Fun

I work part time at a warehouse in Salt Lake. What I’m finding, is that the two guys I work with Tyler (my husband, pictured below) and his buddy Brandon (wearing orange in background) are pretty goofy guys.

Without betraying any of what we’ve laughed over, I will detail a few things that we have been doing lately.

We assemble Silt Fence that is used on Construction sites. Sometimes, we have to make a zillion (it feels like) rolls of this stuff. In the process, we sometimes end up with splinters from the wooden stakes. We also use the forklift to load and unload all kinds of landscaping fabrics etc. My job, usually, is to answer phones and assist as needed around the place. Since I have my phone with me, I usually snag a few photos of things.

This also meant that I could post these pictures of the guys and not have to have any of myself. Smart thinking, ehh?! Since I had the opportunity, I couldn’t resist sharing a few of these images.

Cuteness

I went and interviewed at Salt Lake magazine and then went to my class. Later, we were invited over to visit with the world’s cutest pair of kids, my nephew and niece.

Since one of the things I bought at a garage sale was a children’s book where you just add pictures of them, I couldn’t resist using some of the cute pictures I have of my niece, Hannah. In this image, Tyler is reading to her. I don’t usually have many pictures posted of her or her older brother Johnathan because the internet is full of weirdos these days.

Anyhow, wanted to share a few of these pics. Apparently only the ones of Hannah turned out. The two of Johnathan were kind of blurry.