Update... A year later

I'm not sure how over a year has passed, but it has. I hadn't forgotten about this blog exactly, I've just kept making excuses not to remember to use it. A lot has changed, as would be expected. Quick list: 1. My great grandmother died at 99. I graduated from college a week and a few days later. 2. I interned as a reporter/photographer for a local paper in Richmond, VA and fell further in love with the town, region, and the people who lived there. 3. I applied for lots of jobs, in lots of fields, not sure where I was headed. 4. My subletting lease ran out and two weeks later I had a job interview lined up in Dallas for the job I now have. I spent a day fretting over taking the job interview or accepting a job in Richmond but decided to follow my journalistic dreams of picas, grids, and photoshop action sequences (oh my!!). 5. I've been home six months and haven't stopped waking up every morning amazed that I'm here and doing what I wanted to do. Conclusion: I've been very blessed. Yet, as happy and grateful I am to be here right now, I'm still struggling to readjust to Texas/home. I hadn't realized how much I'd changed since leaving. I'm less tolerant of drama, or maybe I should say I'm more aware of not wanting to be around tons of drama. I'd gotten really good at being far away from my family and our issues. It's always a little harder to hide when you're in the same city as everyone. I think that's good though. It's really important that we all challenge ourselves to face what we dislike confronting be that religious, political, or social differiences, or just cleaning out our cars. In some way I think my journey toward finding equilibrium had/has to include coming home. I'm asking myself questions that I wouldn't necessarily have asked with such immediacy if I had been on another coast or even continent. God does indeed work in mysterious ways. As I struggle with religion and other more mundane but no less identity-shaping issues, I take comfort in faith. I have to, have to, have to believe that I'll end up where I'm supposed to, and right now that is right here in the Big D. Here's to figuring out this next chapter of, gulp, adult-hood. T.T.F.N. P.S. I promise to try not to forget to remember to post here occasionally. :)