Update: Resuming posts

a lot has happened since my last blog post. ten days after my previous update, my mom passed to cancer. that was october 5. now, i know and feel her presence more than ever. it’s not easy, all in one year, being told to take a hike from a great job, losing your mother and spiraling into a sort of quiet depression that no meds would likely cure. but that is life and what makes the best out of those who would push through it all to something new. 

and now, signs of life, this spring, of new hope, pop up all around me. i feel like i’m out of an incredible funk that seems to have dwindled on for most of the winter. i’m back in clarksville surrounded again by familiar faces i know and love. and maybe most importantly, my sister is going to make an uncle out of me, quite possibly on the very day that our mother left us, october 5th (amazing, huh?), showing that life begins anew constantly, all around us. talk about making a believer out of someone…

this winter has been tough. finding any job at all has been a tough task, much less a journalism job, and i know that my hardships may pale in comparison to others’. we all have a heavy load to bear at some point. but now, as my focus returns and i feel my ambition rising up again, i can rest easy knowing that each day is a try at another try. 

i look forward to the completion of a year that will hopefully provide some adventure (yellowstone), creation (to be announced), new life (my niece or nephew) and eventually the furthering of my academic work (grad school). 

life is good i guess. it just depends on how you choose to look at it.