Just Desserts

Guys, dare I say it, I am happy!

I live in a city where I can do anything and get anything, without having to ask for help.  There's a pick of laundromats all around me, one of which is next to a 24 hour organic happy grocery store.

Any cool thing I see posted online I can get to within 45 minutes.  It's unbelievably easy to be a vegetarian in this city....and all of the things that I've felt make me isolated and strange are celebrated and appreciated here.

I have met people who are like dreams; so colorful and full of life, starved for the same dreams, and doing all they can to absorb as much art and life in our short lifetimes.
I feel more relaxed and appreciated at work than I think I ever have; both from managers who start from a place of respect, and coworkers that ask how I am adjusting and genuinely want to hear my response.

It's strange how drab life becomes when you're not surrounded by people who are genuine; both to you and with themselves and the things they love.  But this is a town of workers, like me, who appreciate the same nuisances, and dare to dream of something more.

And to be honest, I don't even know what to dream of.  In the last two weeks I've found more of what I've been looking for than I have in the last two years.  I have neighbors that I can get ice cream with at 9:30 at night, I'm having sleepovers with best friends I haven't been able to see in years, I'm a quick bus ride from my loves in Philly, community here is easily attainable and maintainable, and art is something I can find at work and have time for during the rest of my day,

All I really want is to live life now, and I know I'll be happy.  Maybe one day I'll dream of more, but for now: this is everything I have wanted.  I am so in awe that my hands are shaking as I type this, and I'm almost too superstitious to type these words.

But on this blog I have committed to honesty, and this bliss is what I am finding right now.
Even Mercury Retrograde hasn't knocked me down.  Sure it makes finances, travel and communication more difficult; but it also makes it more deliberate.  So I've already learned to be more careful and honest with those three things.

It's been an amazing start.  I am so happy, to be here and to be alive, and I can't wait to see what happens next.