g'mornin' folks...

so let's see here --- i leave in, wait. ha. i haven't even looked at a calendar in basically over a month. it seems that not knowing my present time frame in relation to my s.africa frame makes my life easier right now. i can enjoy the time that i'm living in, do my thing, check-off my list(s), and not get too overly anticipatory about this departure. my flight to philly, where my staging will instill, is actually the morning of the 17th. heading to raleightown on the 14th where my weekend will commence with an appearance at my mom's cochlear implant bar-be-que in chapel hill. george's fouth birthday is on sunday in raleigh - so grateful that i get to share in that. funny ol' mister time, huh... so about this safrica thing: there seems beyond what i'm truely delving my mind and heart, an ocean of questions, wonderment, detailed and intricate pictures to painted of such a life. i haven't much gone to this space. as an old, wise friend once said, "don't get precious about what's not precious." --i can only maintain so much. only so much capacity for perspecting at the future. and God, o so great in this. let me tell you all a little story. i was in big lots (God loves) a couple of days when i ran into an old friend from elementary/middle school. we had a lovely jovial time reminiscing, when i began to tell her my plans. i got as far as the "...i'm going into the peace corps--" when she said, "o my gosh...my finance and i have a dear friend who's actually going to south africa!" me = o really, friend. funny. ain't life funny. sweet. said person, who now has a name (marie) and a voice (she's a character!), will be joining me on my flight to philly, time there and all the three months of pre-training in country. i mean, come on guys...out of the ninety (ninety) u.s. citizens becoming volunteers south africa there are two that call boone home. crazylove. an answer...to questions, to worries. God. in this indefinitely.

ukay, so here's the frame of reality. my calendar says this: i leave boonehome two weeks from tomorrow. i leave boonehome two weeks from tomorrow. whoa.mama.

this is a great, big, crazy, scary, wild journey.
hey, but who's coming to play one of these days? i'd love...

blessings and care taken to all. love.
i'be seein' you soon...

-me