A Jeep In Summer

If You Jump I'll Learn To Fall

Thanks to the faithful readers. Just keep on hanging in there. I will, someday soon, post more substantial entries.

How do I know this? I'm leaving way early for Christmas break, taking some extra vacation, in order to help some friends. It's one of those emergency-type situations. I'm going to stay in touch with work as much as possible by email and phone, but in between playing with the kids and watching digital cable and reading for Global Trends, I will have some time to write.

I'm looking for a used iBook. Anyone want to make me a deal?

Just got back from the best weekend in Virginia with my surrogate parents. Lots of conversation, including post-breakup processing. I know the breakup was a while ago, but we hadn't had a chance to talk in person. Life and death got in the way. I also slept a decent amount each night, which greatly helped my state of mind. Virginia is the place I go when I need to be cared for and when the world is falling in on me. It really is more home than my actual homeplace. As I turn the corner of that back road, unpaved road in the Blue Ridge hills, my heart is healed again, the dust of the road falls, love becomes a possibility, and the beauty of that place impedes on my psyche. And this time there was snow. That was cool.