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On the road.

In the past two weeks I have been in four states, three timezones, on four planes, and two rental cars. Saying that the past 10 days have been a whirlwind is an understatement.

January 13, 2011

365 days ago, I couldn’t wait until my dad arrived in San Francisco. I was still getting settled in, hadn’t made many friends, and was looking forward to the familiarity of my family coming to town to celebrate my Birthday.

Handwritten.

“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Years Day.” – Edith Lovejoy Pierce

In a Holiday kind of way.

It doesn’t even feel like it should be Christmas this weekend.

Sometimes I think life moves too fast that you can’t even stop and take a breath, even during the holidays. I missed the Union Square tree lighting this year, and perhaps that was my “tradition” to kick off the holiday season in my new home — San Francisco.

My Community: A Thank You

Today’s #reverb10 prompt is incredibly timely — I had already began drafting this blog post and now I have an excuse to push it to publication. I’m going to try not to get sappy here, but I have a huge THANK YOU I have got to get off my chest.

Wonderment.

Wonder. How did you cultivate a sense of wonder in your life this year?

Moment.

Moment. Pick one moment during which you felt most alive this year.

This life.

He picked me up at the bar I used to work at in Boulder. I sat in his gold Honda and as the heat blasted from the vents, I sighed. It was cold outside — the kind of cold that stings your legs.

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