Shrinking Blog

You may notice this blog is shrinking. Soon it will be gone altogether, because I'm taking my favorite posts over here, and shutting down.

What a Difference a Year Makes

Technically it's been over a year since I wrote here, and since I never wrote all that much, it's kind of like a new blog. I started this blog because I wanted some privacy, and I think I'm going to go on with that. In one long year, not much has changed. In one short year, nothing will ever be the same again. How is it that it can be both? Over the course of the last several years, life has been eventful. It has seemed a series of leaps into the unknown, often resulting in falls flat in the dirt. Last week I decided to take another leap. I took a trip to meet friends I did not yet know, to find sisters I never knew I had. I did that scary thing our Moms tell us to never do... meet someone you know only on the internet.

Guess what! It wasn't weird or scary. Not too much. And they weren't all hairy old men, as some wise soul had opined. We weren't sold into white slavery either. Once, a very dear friend said to me, "We really ought to be doing this in community, so that we can all slowly go mad together." It's the truth, and that's exactly what we're doing. Making our community. Confirming that we are slowly going mad. Enjoying the ride a little.

I will honor eight special women by the things that I do when I am home again. By loving my family and friends, by not giving up the fight. I will learn to forgive others, I will learn to forgive myself. I will laugh more, and cry more...take naps, and go swimming. I will stop believing that I am alone.