Wednesday, June 11, 2008

How is it June?

It's already mid-June, and here I am in Hudsonville (the library--my oldest, dearest haunt), bereft of full time employment, my life a steady stream of literature interrupted on occasion by my part time cleaning and babysitting stints or a mug of Folgers with the family. It's been five weeks of indolence, five weeks of adjustment, five weeks of anxiety. Financially, I am drowning. In every other way, however, I feel restored and healed, as though the rest and reading and porch sitting and coffee-drinking are slowly rebuilding my spirit, fortifying it for the struggles that lie ahead. So, despite my fears about not being able to make ends meet, I am contented, and I feel primarily grateful and blessed to be home.

I am on a Madeleine L'Engle kick. Oh, I love her.

2 comments:

wettopsoil said...
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wettopsoil said...

'Maybe surrounded by a
million people I
still feel all alone
I just wanna go home....'

i sent you an email about a week or so ago..did it go through?

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