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OK - so, it's been awhile since I've logged in. I guess things didn't seem exciting enough to write about. Looking back, I think maybe I was just too busy.
My FABULOUS-O friends threw me a going away party from DC my last Friday of work. It was off the hook. They set up tables for each of the countries I am going to visit with food and bevvies from the specific areas. I'll put up pictures as soon as they send them to me (hint, hint).
I was suppose to leave DC on that Sunday after church, but ended up flying to AZ early that Saturday morning (after the party) to be with my Grandmother. She passed away late Sunday evening. I am so glad I got to be there with her for a VERY SHORT 40 hours.
After we got things taken care of in AZ I headed back to DC and stayed there for another week. I was beginning to think I was never going to make it out of the city . . . but I finally got it together and drove home (to Nashville) in the pouring rain the following Friday.
Things were not going EXACTLY the way I had planned. I wasn't stressing out, but beginning to question myself a little. As I was driving home & was just outside of Roanoke, on the way to Bristol, I turned a sharp curve in the mountains to see that the sky had cleared just enough for the sunset to shine through onto the briliantly colored trees. There was a haze in the sky. I thought it was heaven. I hadn't cried much between all the transitions of moving, the funeral and saying goodbye to DC. I hadn't had time. But this was the time. I cried and cried. Not because I was sad, I don't think. I cried because I had turned the curve, I had seen the sun coming through the clouds, and I knew that I was in the midst of the holy.
Now I'm back in Nashville working on my classes and thesis. I head out for Atlanta a week from tomorrow to stay at the open door community ( http://www.opendoorcommunity.org/ ) and to hit Ft. Benning for the SOA protest.
Would love to hear from you and get YOUR update!
PEACE & LOVE - Ingrid
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