Summer 09

Hmm.  So this is the first whole summer I have been a) without my family around and b) not in Portland.  Instead, I am in Appleton, living out of bounds of my school campus, and experiencing the town itself without the taint of seeing it through my town-that-my-school-is-in perspective.  I work a bunch at a cafe, and have pretty much come to the conclusion that working full-time in the food/customer service industry is something I never want to do with my life down the road...inspired to be onto bigger things forever.

What else?  Its a weird summer.  There is no doubt I have learned a lot, met a lot of new fabulous people, and done a great job of having new experiences.  One friend in particular is definitely giving me a new experience, to me I think he is on the road to prophethood; I think through his words and his intensity and his fiery inner beauty he is going to make a world a better place.  I think we teach each other a lot of things too, which I especially love. 

I also have gotten very into my crafting---carving blocks and printing them, making wire rings, collecting test tiles and can tabs and washers and junk I find on the ground, sewing, crocheting weird things, altogether creating things inspired by my imagination.  Its my destressor.  Mmmmm.

Finally, in a few days I am going back to Portland, namely to see my sister and my best friend--- and the boy who is still the love of my life from last summer.  I am amazed by this boy's wiseness, by the ease of this commitment (meaning, it just feels sooo natural), by the fact that we have stuck together and even with the distance fallen even harder in love, and in even more mature ways than the young love that was the seed of all this true true true true love that we share...ohh life.

Perhaps I will fill you in after all has played itself out, although I've found that I cant guarantee that.