With things moving so fast, and with all my focus on next year and my life "after this," there is very little time to think about the "right now." It occurs to me that I can go anywhere when this year is done. Not only mentally, emotionally, intellectually, but physically. Where do I want to GO? Who do I want to become, in addition to the person ( Read more... )

    Lately, my soul is yearning to be everywhere at once and I am not sure how to deal with it. I have been thinking about Ghana so much and I want to be back there so badly, in the sand and the sun and with Emily and Victoria and Ben and Sam. I miss Cami and our room and I just want to be eating oatmeal at Coffee Cue with all of them. I want to ( Read more... )

I've been putting off updating because I have too much to say, so instead I'm just going to not worry about covering EVERYTHING and just talk ( Read more... )

The ride home, away from Clark until the summer, was continuously interrupted by dozens of text messages from my friends saying that they will miss me, have fun abroad, have a good break, etc. I almost started crying as my dad sped down that highway and I got farther and farther from the place that I have come to love, and the people that go with ( Read more... )

A few days ago, I was on my way back to work and I had the thought, "I need to put on chapstick when I get home"--"home" referring to Dana Commons where I work and where I had left my purse with my chapstick. I laughed to myself; this is not the first time that I have called any random place "home." It occurred to me then that home is within. Home ( Read more... )

I swung open my window this morning and a gust of nostalgic, Worcester-y smell blew into my room. It reminded me of last year, and autumn, and of coming home after being gone for a long time.