Well, I finished my long trek across the US, landed in the Portland area (stayed with great friends along the way in Denver and Salt Lake City), and finished my first full week of Grad School! I love it!
Tons of reading...in fact, I still have 3 more chapters to read for a class tonight. I'm taking a full 12 hour course load, plus have to volunteer (as part of the program) at 2 sites: one for my permaculture class and one for my spiritual leadership class. I'm still pursuing ideas for both projects and trying to tie up loose ends by the end of this week. Project proposals are due next week!
Still applying for grad assistantships in education and sustainability...and looking for a more permanent place to roost. I may have an offer close to school (it would be ideal!)...and in the meantime, I'm nestled down in Woodburn, OR with my new friends Jon and Sarah. They are AMAZINGLY generous and warm people. I couldn't have landed with more open, lovely people!
I'm grateful for every day here in Portland. It's just breathtaking. It's nothing to see a double rainbow almost daily. It rains almost every day, but there's plenty of sunshine in between.
I'm so thankful for the kindness of so many who helped me get here: my family, my friends, and God.
Here's hoping that all your dreams come true and that you keep pursuing them, no matter how difficult or unattainable they seem at times!
The Happy Snowflake Dance blog; a daily exercise in openness meditations. The 21-day Happiness Experiment has morphed into a 21-day Openness Experiment. My Mission: a daily journey into openness through meditations, words, actions and being.
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