Morning Walk Again

The dew was so heavy this morning, I came back from the walk, wet past my knees due to wading through the heavy grasses on the back side of the farm. I felt like I was playing "peek-a-boo" with the bird in the sunflowers. To me, it seems as if there are several young birds, and they seem to hang out together. I've seen them before, and they let you get really close, like they don't quite have the instinct for quick flight yet. Then again, I it could be my imagination run amok.

In any event, I have another week of bliss and then it is off to graduate school (yea) and with any luck at all, one or two part-time jobs, or more freelancing, or I hope to be called for substitute teaching, after I spend several hours and around $120 getting my license and jumping through all the hoops.

I'm still waiting on financial aid for grad school, but I'm pretty sure it will be OK, when I applied, I was approved for access to loans. I'm proceeding as if all is well - denial has been a great friend of mine for years :) Part time, it will take around 2 years for the degree and then my plan is to teach English at a community college, or maybe proceed to a doctorate? Time will tell.

In any event, I've had a restorative summer - something I really needed. I think self knowledge is a good thing, and I've discovered I don't have the temperment to "swim with the sharks." I really don't want to be in charge of a newspaper again - freelancing suits me just fine. I need more of it, that's all.

But I'm grateful to be able to move forward with my long-time goal to go back to college. Life is moving along just fine, it seems.