hello? anyone still there?
Hello friends. Lost and found. Near and far. It has been over a year since my last post and if you still have me somewhere on your 'friends list' despite my missing presence in your life on the interweb, I hope your life in the past year brought blessings, but also pain to help you grow, feel something new and embrace the unknown.
It's strange to summarize the past year in a few short sentences. Let's see if I can do it.
Google has gifted me with both hope and fear. The short story is I love my profession and the brilliant people I see when I get my coffee in the morning. Ann Arbor has become my home and I live close enough to the Stadium to hear game cheers and close enough to downtown to bike/walk to work. My sister got married. I'm actually starting to understand a bit of what 'love' truly requires. I have a lovely, though small set of friends that keep me smiling. The old friends, the dear ones, still make an occasional, welcomed appearance and remind me that they loved me from the start and still do. I've experienced trials in the past year that have tested my faith in myself and humanity. Torture. I had a nice slice of that and am thankful for the friends I trusted with my life who pulled me out of it. The trials make the blessings sweeter, as cliche as it is and as I reflect on the year since my last post, I can count my 'complaints' on one hand. How lucky am I?
Very.
It's strange to summarize the past year in a few short sentences. Let's see if I can do it.
Google has gifted me with both hope and fear. The short story is I love my profession and the brilliant people I see when I get my coffee in the morning. Ann Arbor has become my home and I live close enough to the Stadium to hear game cheers and close enough to downtown to bike/walk to work. My sister got married. I'm actually starting to understand a bit of what 'love' truly requires. I have a lovely, though small set of friends that keep me smiling. The old friends, the dear ones, still make an occasional, welcomed appearance and remind me that they loved me from the start and still do. I've experienced trials in the past year that have tested my faith in myself and humanity. Torture. I had a nice slice of that and am thankful for the friends I trusted with my life who pulled me out of it. The trials make the blessings sweeter, as cliche as it is and as I reflect on the year since my last post, I can count my 'complaints' on one hand. How lucky am I?
Very.