Okay, so I've been negligent. But there are good reasons.
I hope the fifteen or so people who regularly read my page (and I appreciate you all very very much!) are okay.
It has been a hard week after the death of a good friend.
Sunday, I climbed to the top of Mt. Hood, which is the highest point in Oregon. It was beautiful and difficult. More difficult than I'm really at liberty to write about.
For the past week at work, besides dealing with absolute loss, I have been trying to program a new Access database for my company.
I am most certainly not a programmer. But I learn blindingly fast, and I'm already writing bits and scraps of Visual Basic to help streamline the database.
I have a good friend who is getting married on the 4th of July, which is wonderful, if you ask me.
Weddings all around. Anyone for a wedding?
Good friends like this one who is preparing for his wedding with great pleasure are so special to me. I have been thinking a lot about the dearness of friends this week.
I have also received a number of very encouraging and meaningful emails recently. Thank you all. (You know who you are.)
And so I am back. Roughly a week of rest to deal with the sharp point of the pain, and now that it is dulling, I feel like I can take a breath again, stretch my body back out from the curl it has been, and reach outward.
I know the pain won't stop. But I'm getting used to it.
