It's been too long. My friends are cute, they know I haven't written but they don't say anything. They know me well enough that it bothers me that I don't write, so they don't remind me. You know how I know? Writing is such a normal part of my conversations with my friends, then it suddenly stops being a topic of conversation when I am not writing.
I've written dozens of entries in my head, but nothing down on blog. It's disappointing. But then I just realized, it doesn't matter if every entry is gold, it just matters that I keep writing. This Spring, has been a wonderful one. So much better than last Spring. Last Spring, if you recall, I had 2 heart surgeries, and one spanking new pacemaker. I was mostly bedridden, and then we fell towards Foreclosure by Summer due to this.
Not so this year! Things are looking up! I am still saving up to write my book! I am more than halfway there! If you haven't done so and feel moved to, I am still taking donations! See paypal info on the right.
I've also taken a new direction career-wise, and its thrilled me to no end. I didn't think it was possible to fall in love with a job. I just thought it was something you showed up for, and did a good job, and (hopefully) got paid and recognized for it.
This is something completely different. I've begun work with The Arc of Loudoun. It's a wonderful non-profit that provides services and support to people with disabilities. I'm currently working in one of the schools there, The Aurora School, which is a school for kids with disabilities, primarily autism. I've never been privy to such an environment. I cannot tell you how this has changed me already. I feel like my life has already changed. This is a place of hope. Have you ever worked somewhere where there's just this hum going? A humming of hope? Of joy?
Here we are, mired in our day to day lives, beeping at the annoying people in traffic, texting, over caffeinated, rush rush rushing through life - and not knowing there are places out there where people are just working for the good? All of us - just with one common goal - to improve the life of a child? I tell you, its a heady experience.
I've never worked anywhere where I've felt like this. And I don't want to leave at the end of the day, and I can hardly wait to get there. This is work? Wow.
Sign me up for the next 20 years man. Awesome stuff. Grateful for this chance.
And so I'm back, from outer space. (ThanksGloria Gaynor
)... I'm doing more than surviving these days. It's SO nice.
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