To NYC

I'm sitting on a plane going from Charleston SC to NYC. Of course, I've made this trip many times before during my courting stage with Landon, during the planning of our wedding and after our wedding, back and forth, forth and back, from my old life to my new one and back. This time it's different. for the first time, I feel like I'm leaving my "life" to visit a moment in time that has passed.

My friends are a constant, a bridge between the two worlds. I can't wait to see Sarah, Dwight, Susan, Gina, Shanahan (you know a good friend when you are on a last name basis) and Evie and Lisa and Jon. I'm trying to make time to see each of them.

Sarah wants me to go out late with her tonight to hear her favorite band, the Loan Sharks, who are playing in the Bronx at 11pm. Now, I love to dance, but this just doesn't sound fun any more. Well, I take that back. It sounds really fun, but also really late and complicated and...cold for this time of year.

Now I like to get up early in the morning, before 6, so that I can work and pray and listen to my inner wisdom and get grounded before the day come crashing in around me, when the phone starts ringing and the activity starts. I like to get up early enough so that I can watch the sun rise over the marsh and write creative thoughts and feel the peace of the day.

My world has shifted, and I have shifted with it.