New is good. Busy is good. Looking forward is good.
Tomorrow I start my new job at the Kansas Biological Survey.
It has been a week of goodbyes and hellos as I move from St. Louis to Lawrence.
And - there is great energy from the people in Lawrence. People I didn't even know, genuinely expressing their happiness at my new job, their delight at me being here. I have felt so drawn down by stupid drama on facebook, by people not getting along, by people looking for the worst in what is said and done.....the contrast was really telling.
And I haven't been sad for days. I mean - yes, sad to be leaving my friends and family in St. Louis. Sad to be moving from a place that has felt like home. But not sad about my situation in life. Not sad because of the great hole in my heart.
So....yeah....maybe there is a way forward that isn't always shadowed by loss, want, and despair.
