Week 62 update.. yes thats not a typo!! (I have been here that long already!)

Its been quite a bit of a rollercoaster ride, i must be honest.. Work, no work, travel, frustrations, gaining friends, losing friends, enduring unbearable cold temperatures, impossibly huge amounts of rain and the most unpredictable weather i have ever experienced!

Its so weird how the human body and soul adjusts to things, although i am still learning and growing so much - i have now gone beyond the feeling that i am a traveller, a visitor, a foreigner - most things now really feel very "normal" to me - the novelty has subsided and i have started feeling that "at home" feeling. Which is good - even though true to human nature i somtimes again desire the newness of experiencing something for the first time, the elation of discovery.. but i must be honest.. i also love the comfort of knowledge, of experience, of knowing where it all goes and how it all fits.

So i dont know the national anthem yet or have American accent - which i have now given up all hope of ever attaining - home for me is not really where the heart is at this point in life.. but where the least amount of stress and the most amount of comfort and contentment lies for this time and this season of my life?

Sound like a sad state of complacency? on the contrary.. passion never dies, dreams never die - but as much as we pursue - we need to get to a place where we can also just "be" and live and take what it is and use it to add to the pages in the book of our lives.

Think of it this way - although you will never look back fondly with stars in your eyes and with bliss record the amounts of diapers you changed on your child throughout their baby years - but rather you will feel the proud elation of your heart when you watch them grow and achieve.. yet how could they - without the diaper changes?

hey hey now - i am not comparing my experience in America to diaper changing!!!! sigh! dont be difficult. What i am saying is find the joy in ALL facets and "admin" of life! and love it for that moment and make that moment the dream that you are living the joy of just being happy because the present is the only reality you have!

:-)))))