Recent Musings:
Give thanks for love.
Saturday, November 18, 2006
Thanksgiving's on its way - so soon, it's hard to believe. Even harder to believe is that the 1 year anniversary of RhondaSue.com has also arrived! There are just so many things to be thankful for.
Feeling retrospective, I'd like to say that this past year has been one of the more challenging years in my life, probably the MOST challenging year of my life to date. I've made so many huge life changes over the year that have really shaken my foundation and forced me, not so gracefully at times, to rediscover what makes Rhonda "Rhonda." (Honestly, I don't think I have that all figured out yet!)
A newer emotion for me, having been separated by 400 miles from my fiance' for about 3 months, is that I don't think I can live without him. I mean I have, as I've stayed here at grad school and he's stayed back home, but each passing day I love him and miss him more than I thought possible. It's a scary level of emotional intensity and I wonder how husbands and wives have survived wars and immigration and job transfers. I have a new respect for those people and their belief in love.
Alas, as I start into the second year of my web-posted thoughts, I'm anxious to see what develops. So much of my thinking has been reshaped by my experiences here in grad school; perhaps my writing will reveal that, no?
Happy Thanksgiving to all. Find something to be thankful for.