on the upside...

[inyo]

I know I've been a bit down lately due to stress and business and fretting.  It takes a night like tonight to realize why I am REALLY here, though I didn't even know that when I came.  I am sharing these two years with seven amazing people in my cohort, who are my support, my grounding, my companions on a path that to some extent no one can fully understand, not even people from other years of the program, since each year is so different.  This is not to take away from my other friends here in Vermont and elsewhere, who are amazing people as well.  There is just something about this group though, it blows me away.

Speaking of other friends... I got so many birthday wishes and kind words today... even though the day started as a difficult one, it ended as a happy one.  Thanks!

I smell like wood smoke and I am sleepy... time to go to bed.