i miss the semester. my children. ballet. teaching. planning. the stress. i am so looking forward to august...
i'm about to start traveling for the summer. it is my lot in life and i am embracing it while i still have this freedom (there is nothing pending that would keep me from travel, just to be clear). eventually i think i will feel the need to get a "big girl job" and work through the summer. i am happy for the experiences that are about to take place. for the dances i will take on and people i will meet. but there is a tug in my heart to stay put. it is growing. every year. 
i am slowly but surely getting everything accomplished to go. house is becoming organized, bags are getting packed, errands run and people are being put in place to take care of things while we are away. i am learning choreography for the seattle portion of my trip, buying necessary items for the japan part and getting my body in order for the rest of it.  etta james, frank sinatra and michael buble are the soundtrack to the summer.
i now have a meeting that will change the face of my life for the fall. more reconfiguring in my brain tonight, i imagine. life is an endless reconfiguration to our expectations. i don't know why it still catches me off guard. "prepared" is a figment of my imagination. of all of our imaginations. trust. higher power. goddess. spirals, not circles. we get a little closer each time around.

cheers