Can you believe this??
It has been almost a year since my last post.
I was a doubter whom, with each passing day, thought I'd thrown in the towel. Then the towel became a pile, which became a mound, a hill, a cliff, a mountain, now I'm a hotelier.
Ever the choleric sanguine, I decided to come back to the blog after a crazy day of running about from soccer to a lovely Baptism, vigil Mass, YMCA, musical, and the day's not over. Oh, did I mention Kev's in New Orleans at a Walker Percy conference? Yeah, this seems like a good time to start again. :)
WOOHAA! It's good to be back.
This past year has brought with it innumerable joys, heavy sorrow, new soulfriends, and waning connections, beautiful community, phases of loneliness, sickness, health, homesickness and basking in our new life in CA. Loving our new jobs, feeling stressed, owning it, wallowing in it, loving something fierce and screaming aloud to the crashing ocean at midnight. CA to IN to CA to IN to CA to MA to ME to IN to CA. From public school to homeschool, self-hatred to self-onthewaytolove, extroversion to introversion and back again. Articles, concerts, Masses, papers, late nights, midnight singalongs, concerns, surprises, phone calls, serendipitous graces and sock-you-stomach torment, two steps forward, one step back, one step forward, ten back.
Grace and strength when it seemed impossible.
So generous a wellspring of joy a beauty, it hurts.
But, I don't have to unpack it all tonight, right? I'm just going to say hello, wrap myself in a cozy blanket, look out over the mountains and remember: It is good that we are here.
