Community

First of all, I hit over 8,000 reads on this blog this weekend. I don't know who y'all are, but I wanted to say thank you. I know it's not always the best story, but the past almost two years that I've been writing this, have been a journey and a lot of you seem to have taken it with me.

It turns out it's true what Anne of Green Gables (slash L.M. Montgomery) said: "It's not what the world holds for you. It's what you bring to it."

I might never be a real writer, but in some ways, now, I feel like I already am. I hope some aspects of this story have resonated with some of you, that while it's true we're always tied to our past, the future is in our control and really what we make of it. Even a blackbird can become a bluebird and maybe even eventually, a dove.

I think a sense of Community is an important contributor to our happiness in life. I know when I lost mine, I was...well, lost. But it seems as though I've found it again by sheer luck. The building that I live in, on my floor, is filled with great people. People who have become my friends, who bake you treats at Christmas, who take care of your cat (or you take care of theirs), who bring you their leftover dinners so you can have something to eat when you get home from school, who have a party last night where we all showed up.

Or I can go to the bar downstairs, (it really is like Cheers, everyone knows your name), and talk about a rough day at work or the guy who just broke my heart, and Charlie or Tiz or Andy will listen, and it might only cost me a quarter of a million dollars (long story short, sometimes Charlie adds extra zeros to my bill. Thank god I don't seem to have a limit on my Amex.)

The other place I've been lucky is at work, where I found great people who support me, Stuart who I will always (heart) and my best friend in the world, Liz.

So, my dear wonderful friends who read this blog...the story is not over. If anything, the last couple of years have been a prologue and the real story is yet to come. Stay tuned.

Sullivan out.