A Long Overdue Reunion

Well old friend, it has certainly been a long while since you and I have crossed paths. It is not to say that I have not at times thought wistfully of the delightful release I once found through the sweep of my fingers along your silken keys... It's just that life keeps moving swiftly along, and I get swept up in the current. And yes, I am ashamed to say that I may have sated my journalistic urges now and then through brief and tawdry status updates on Facebook, but a girl has to express herself somewhere! No, don't look at me that way, I feel guilty enough as it is, not writing a single entry in, let me check, over a year! But I promise to change and will write, if not faithfully, at least passionately, whenever I get the chance.

It strikes me that perhaps this is a necessary part of my strive for balance that I have been neglecting. So much has happened in my life since the sun last occupied its current position and it is taking me time to settle into my new, if yet less than completely stable, orbit. Largest among those changes is that I accomplished the impossible, I met a truly wonderful man who loves me as much as I love him, and did the wonderfully unthinkable - married him! We make quite the team and have wicked conversations late into the night about how we are going to shake the world together. Perhaps the event that has more altered the course of my orbit however, is that I was finally accepted to the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Sciences masters program and awarded a fairly decent scholarship about which I am deeply grateful, thoroughly excited, and utterly terrified. So amidst the wedding planning and honeymoon adventures, I have been applying for scholarships, searching for housing, and pondering research questions. Needless to say, there has been a lot swirling around in my head!

Add to all that the fact that I am still searching for my way to make the difference needed in the world, and I am in sore need of an outlet. So, while I still haven't gotten up the gumption to start on any of my long planned books that I hope to write one day, I am determined that I will use this venue to further explore and enrich my knowledge and philosophies about existence and my part therein.

Until next time then...
~me