Hmm…what does one say after dropping off the face of the larger earth for more than six months?  I’m not ready (and may never be ready) to give the long answer.  And the short answer is rather like encountering a long, lost friend who asks you how the heck you are and saying, “Fine.  You?”  [crickets….]  So unsatisfying all the way around.

So, how about this for a nutshell…I found my roar.  It started with a very quiet, very exhausted, very tearful conversation in which my marriage ended.  It made snuffles and grunts as we navigated through a summer that I will remember as the hardest period of time that I have ever experienced.  And since then, it has become a strong and steady growl … of life, self, love and health.

I’m not ready to say more.  And I don’t think that I’ll be back to blogging – at least not yet or not much.  But I found myself reading the entries from June 4th and June 15th and seeing all that happened from this very different place.  And I wanted you to know.  Because this blog – the writing of it and the connections that it engendered – was a huge piece of working my way through and I have been feeling enormous gratefulness for a long time now for all those pieces.  It seems good and right to say in blog-speak to you all that I am okay.  More than okay.  I am at ease and happy.  I am healthy.  I am living in a time where all my insides and outsides (of multiple ages and stages) are invited in and are getting to know each other.  We’re kind of dating (…should I say I’m dating myself?!  Heheheheheh) and finding that we have a tremendous amount in common.  It’s going well and I think we’re getting very serious.  I might have to get pinned to myself or give me a letter jacket or a class ring or something.

I just wanted to let you know.  And I want to say thank you.  Happy New Year and may it be an amazing one for us all!