Hi. Me again.

It’s been a while, blah blah. This used to be the standard I-have-a-blog excuse when life got in the way of posting on the regular. I am sure it is outdated now, just (probably) like me.

So yeah. Life got in the way. Or, more accurately, I made other things more important than expressing myself semi-publicly to the probably zero people still left reading these posts.

Oh, there is no bitterness there, not at all. Believe me, I understand. And I am grateful for the people who did read my writing back in the day. To them I send a silent but heartfelt thank you. Sometimes it is good to know you’re not completely alone, casting thoughts out into the wind only for them to echo back.

Anyway, small update.

I am still living in Mexico. Life is good here. There are cats, not just random cats I meet on the street but my two beautiful babies who have been with me over six years now. They came originally from Mexico, traveled to the States with me when I moved back there and now back again. It’s been over three years. This is home. I love it here and it feels more like me than anywhere else ever has.

My heart (figuratively speaking) has gone through some stuff in the past few years. It’s all part of life, and life brings us joy and pain and surprises and goodness and questions and sometimes even answers. But everything I expressed here that I felt once upon a time was real. And it brought me so much joy, and so much pain. Again, that’s life. Yay for life. No, I mean that! Yay for life!

The fact that I get to live on a planet where there are otters that hold hands and crows that hold funerals and whales that have their own language that we don’t yet understand and an enormous fungal network that covers the entire surface of the planet is a miracle. And that I am still alive, heart still beating, in this body, with a brain that contains a portal to possibility is also a miracle.

And yay for that.

Also yay for all that I have learned along the way, and that I still get to share it with others. Maybe just a few, maybe someday many, it doesn’t matter. I am apparently living the life I came here to live. Here, I will give myself a hug for that. Good job, self!

So, I mean to continue expressing myself here. More regularly. And if my thoughts sail out into the wind and happen to come your way, well, that’s icing on the proverbial cake.