The remainder of the summer happened, as did the changing of seasons since my last update.
My current state is bundled up in my home, on a comfortable couch, biding time before I go visit with some good friends, and a bit contemplative.
Things I've found myself contemplating lately are: my geographic placement, per usual - thoughts about what 'home' means to me and all the different places I find it, the ideas of contentment and discontentedness (brought on by a conversation with a kind coffee roaster friend), working myself out of a job (purposefully), friends moving, and dogs.
A few tidbits about my life recently… nothing too profound, just a couple things that have changed or happened recently: I bought new pants (if you know me, you know this is oddly a big deal… I'm frugal and I wear the same pants forever because it works), during my recent recruiting trip I spent time with 8 dear friends in the southeast (this was life-giving), I finished two books (the curious incident of the dog in the night-time and love does), Kristen (who Ben & I used to live with) and I are renting a house (I bought furniture and was given appliances, and am sleeping on a bed on the floor with my grandmother's quilt), I can't stop looking at the sky because autumn is turning into winter.
-- I took a little break from writing this post and am starting back up again --
Thanksgiving found me in Washington with these two friends who just moved to Camp Indianola and Kerri Ann, who flew in from Georgia, creating a new tradition. The hope is that for the next few years we'll spend Thanksgiving together at one of our homes on the "Left Coast" as Curtiss calls it.
Blogging at a coffee shop the size of my bedroom in a small town, full of conversation... not so productive. More later.
