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It is not quite uncoated weather, but it’s close and it will be on Sunday for certain. That makes me happy. There was a new bird tweeting outside the window this morning, which means they are slowly migrating back, and that makes me happy too. As I was driving into Boulder today, I realized that it’s almost calving season and I LOVE calving season. Baby cows are soooo cute. Which is why I can’t eat veal. I don’t think it’s possible to eat something that you’ve named.
I’m very excited to say that there seems to be good news on the job front! I received an offer this morning, contingent on my passing the background check. Of course, this shouldn’t be a concern for me, but it’s human to worry your memory like a dog worries a bone to see if there’s something there that you’ve forgotten that perhaps you should have mentioned. I don’t think so though. I’m set to start on the 22nd. An exciting new phase of life, and I’ll tell you more about the job as I dive in – but I will tell you it’s a writing job, and that makes me very happy.
The realtor also tells me that there are more hopeful signals about the (my) house – my actually being almost employed gives me a little more confidence about the whole house thing. I have been talking with the Universe about the house being ready for me when my lease is up. Which is May. That house wants me. I can feel it.
It feels nice to be wanted by a house and an employer.
I will miss my coffee shop times to a certain extent, but they will just have to be scheduled a little more tightly. I am pretty darn thrilled to think about working (for someone) again, learning something new, meeting new people, having a new routine. It has been a huge challenge to shift my mindset from leaving Colorado for someplace warm with a partner, to staying here to build a new life on my own over the last 2-3 months. But there is nothing I cannot do, and nothing I cannot survive. And that’s nice to know.
I am learning more about allowing myself to be, and to be in the now, in the moment – and be happy there as much as possible. I suppose that’s the whole practice of mindfulness that some therapists talk about, and some spiritual folks practice. Like now, when I can soak in the sun shining through the window of Caffe Sole, a warm, swirling cappuccino to hand, some new music touching my ears, a little child outside catching drops of melted snow water from the roof in his cupped hands outside.
And being able to share it all with you.
Sun on the Coffee Shop Chair
Photo Title: It’s Always Bigger in Texas
The second largest cross in the Western Hemisphere, located in Groom, Texas, is visible from miles away. Kelsea and I visited while on the EAR in August.
Quote of the Day: “Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.” – Edna St. Vincent Millay
