One Year

A little over a year ago I pursued something that was uncertain. Something that was new- in many ways. 

It changed my entire life. It was, as my mother said, "crossing a bridge that could never be uncrossed". There was no other path that I could imagine.

It was not as easy as the word falling might imply. There were many unintended hurts that came just like a fall. Bruises that are still fading.

Every single day, though, it is not the pains of minor characters that I think of.

It is the joy. The happiness of loving someone who has literally made me so much better than I ever was.

I have spent the last year discovering what it means to truly love someone. Even though 1,901 miles currently seperate us there is no other place I would call home like her heart.

I love you, Meredith.

A Beginning

It has been several months since I ended my last blog. There was finishing graduate school and a job search that seemed more imperative and there was a need to take a break from talking about things in such a public forum.

A lot has changed since that blog. I have moved back across the country and am now residing in Ohio. I live in a precious village with lots of hills and trees and two coffee shops.

It has been interesting adjusting to life on my own again. That feeling of coming home to an empty apartment and having friends that are once again further away than I would like. It has been good, though, to find perspective and to know that I can make it on my own and to know that in very few ways am I actually alone.