Your Flowers/God’s Love - Iron & Wine's Our Endless Numbered Days at 20
Love is a crying baby Mama warned you not to shake. Love is a dress you made long to hide your knees. The last time I saw Colin was, like, a decade ago, and if you were to ask me then, when he and I were sitting across from one another at the Caribou Coffee on a Sunday morning before I had to go open the bookstore I was working in at the time, I would have told you, no, this won’t be the last time we see one another. I would have told you no, certainly, this is one of the last times I will remember that we spoke. Colin had gotten married around three years prior and I am sure that, by 2014, he and his wife Elizabeth maybe already had one of their children; now, they have three daughters. I have never met any of them. I’ve only met Elizabeth once. It was at their wedding on Madeline Island, Wisconsin, in the summer of 2011. But if you were to ask me now, and I have asked myself this question, in reflection, about that moment when he and I were sitting across from one another at th