Summer So Far

I really can't believe how fast the summer has gone. I spent the first 6 weeks in Indianola caring for my four coons. Which are good, released and on their own now! And these next 5 weeks are spent back home in Boji. I leave in three weeks for vermont and new hampshire- then back to boji for my cousin's wedding and then on to my Alaksa trip to visit my good friend from college!! I am quite excited for that trip, not only to get to see the beauty that Alaska holds, but to get some good time with Victoria. We will have two weeks of good solid face to face conversation that has been much missed with us always being in different parts of the world.

I'm sitting in a coffee shop right now drinking an iced coffee and finishing off a cinnamon muffin while I contemplate how fast time really has gone. Indianola seems ages away and the feeling of tiny paws crawling all over me is starting to fade. I have been keeping busy while in boji with my old waitressing job and doing a fair amount of running and lifting. My body hadn't seen the inside of a gym since before Africa and it's soaking up those weight machines. I try to go running with my sister but her longer legs make for a fast stride which quickly gets me out of breath. I prefer my own pace and getting lost in my mind while I run.

The fall will put me up in the great state of Minnesota in the Minneapolis/St. Paul region and I am quite excited. I am hoping to get back into yoga and see if I can find a studio that will train me or at least pay attention to the fact that I taught yoga in college. Nothing beats the spiritual fulfillness I get from an hour long yoga session. Troubles, problems and stress seem to disappear or not have as big a hold on me when I'm practicing and getting regular meditation sessions. I would like to try and start meditating- perhaps one day soon I will start and blog about my experience.

I don't really have anything interesting to write about and maybe no one will even read this, but I would like to start some new journey in this life I'm living right now and keep a detailed account. It would be a practice in discipline to blog everyday- even if it's only a few words. Let's hope I put my hope into a real thing.

I'm working on living and thinking in the present because I realize how much of my life I have lived waiting for the next thing to come. I'm known for counting down the days until something good/big comes about, but then when it does- I count down the days until it's over- only not in the good exciting way but the sad way. So I really want to work on being present in my life now and not thinking I'm not living it the way I'm supposed to. I have no career, I am not married and I have no children- which 10 years ago that would be unspeakable by the time you're 24. I'm working on liking where I'm at and what I'm doing and not falling into society's pressures. And don't get me wrong- I AM happy and I AM satisified.

I also am looking into graduate school as hopefully the next step in my life, but I am proud to say that since I have graduated college in May of 2008 I have lived in many places: United Kingdom, South Africa, Swaziland, Mozambique, New York, Indianola and Okoboji of course and within a few months I can add Vermont, Alaska and living in Minneapolis. I wouldn't trade these experiences for a career in one place right out of college for anything. I'd say I've been pretty lucky and I'm pretty dang happy.