December 30, 2007

• Mental Marathon

  Classes begin soon (about 2 weeks), and I'm getting ready for it all. Need to review things with a counselor, but I'm enrolled for everything I can be this semester, and it's a lot.

  I've realized I've been mentally exhausting myself lately, wasting time and energy on things. Coming to Idaho has been good for that, a time to recover, and re-evaluate.

  It's so important to take the time to connect with your family. No matter how young or old, family is there for you, loving you unconditionally (worst-case scenarios aside, but so few ever really experience that). It's been good to spend time with them, for a decent length again. Family can steady you, give you guidance, or a rock to stand on. Sometimes family needs you too, and it helps them just as much as it helps you for you to be there. We aren't always aware of that part, but I think it's true just the same. Still, there is no purer, more self-less love than that of family, and to be surrounded by that is vital to our physical, mental, and spiritual well being, whether it's tough love, gentle, obvious or subtle. I've been lucky enough to experience all four this visit.

  Still, I do miss Missouri, and I'll be happy to return to my second family, my friends: the ones I love, in the home I've made.

  I may or may not have some "insightful" (read: self-indulgent) New Year's message, but I think I said that already on my birthday. All else will be for me to know, and speak through action, not words. I hope this new year brings many important changes for all.

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