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I'm running through the things I need to pack back up to the city in two day's time. I'm returning with more than I brought as there are items to be dropped off for family and friends, bags for city recycling, a print of a painting done by my best friend's father, my house plants that have yet to make the move, and a couple of other items that I've picked up since being here. It's going to be one full car.

I'm also making lists of everything that still needs to be done before I can go. I need to finish my program application and read two local library books. I need to spend my last two days with internet usage continuing to job search. I need to download several scholarship forms. I need to exchange my new stainless steel water container for one that won't leak, and I need to order used textbooks online. I also need to drop off a few things at the women's shelter and order a permanent reusable coffee filter online.

My visit here is coming to an end (something that hit home even more today as I said goodbye to my best friends returning to their home on the east coast). Yet endings always bring beginnings- and the last few weeks have been a period of major growth and renewal for me. A recent movie got me thinking about life and I feel that I've reconnected to my original life vision. Sometimes events in our lives disallusion us to our original goals and dreams, yet if we are not passionately pursuing life and our purpose then I can't help but wonder how much we are truly living. Thus the last week has been a time of exploration and planning-discovering the ways to make what I have now match up to what I want it to be. And simply enough.....it's working.

It's funny to me how life opens doors and brings words (from friends, family, and sermons) of wisdom just when we need them most. It's funny how easy it is to create change in oneself and in how to achieve plans when that change weighs so heavily upon one's heart. And it's funny how once you listen to yourself the doors begin to open....

I hope that everyone's hearts have the chance to speak in the coming year-that you all have lives full of passion, full of wonderful endings and fabulous beginnings, and that you find yourself truly living-simply content.