I’m feeling pretty lucky right now. Even though life isn’t tied up in a nice little bow (and that can seem enticing at times), I’m grateful. Mostly because I feel alive. This blog started when I decided to choose a path that I never thought I would take. I threw twenty five years of planning in the garbage and decided to follow my gut.
If you had asked me a year ago if I ever, ever, thought I would be where I am today, I would have flat out said N-O. In the moment, when you’re dealing with the day-to-day stuff, it’s easy to forget that you always dreamed of being exactly where you are. Dreams don’t usually include taking the garbage out. I’m so happy to be writing this because it really puts me in the moment. It makes me look around and think, wow, I’m really here. This is my life and I love it.
In other news (that is my own microcosm of news) I’m 100 pages into the second draft of my novel. Suddenly, a new character has popped up! I don’t know where he came from, but I am so glad to meet him. It’s funny how I set out to write something, it went in an entirely different direction, and now I’m discovering that some of the elements that I hoped for are finding their way into my story.
Tomorrow, it’s back to Charm City and I’m so happy and excited for this weekend. I’ll be reuniting with three of my most treasured ladies on the planet. It’s exactly what the doc ordered. Plus, it’s a long weekend! Hooray!
So much of my life has been filled with goodbyes and missing people. I’m not sorry that it’s been that way. It has made me value people more and created memories that are more permenant and vivid. I don’t think you can truly know how much you love someone until they’re far away from you. It’s time to go back home and then move on to the next adventure. Can’t wait to see what it may be…
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Oooh! I love it when new characters just show up. That is SO exciting!!!!
It IS exciting! Where do they come from? I guess we can’t question these things:) Can’t wait to read about Van!
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