tick tock.

i really want to keep this blog going. i would really love that. such a wonderful place to write, such a wonderful place to share and process and expand and reflect. but for some reason my fingers don't seem to move toward the keyboard nor my mind to the internet when events happen these days. but perhaps slowly, slowly and with their own precious time of development, the stories will come. and the words will flow. and the rhymes and lyrics and connections and poetry will certainly flow with the space as rich as they deserve. because, let me tell you, the stories that they hold are the most powerful of my life. and that is beautiful.

but for now, with the clock ticking, let me shortly and briefly and in (gasp) list form, write what has happened and what is happening. past present future. to fast. but too necessary. 

that beauty that is in the post below? well, unfortunately it must have been a honeymoon phase of the farm that erin and i were in. i ended up getting really really ill on the farm. really ill. scary ill. we left. we had to. it was necessary. 

we went to a large city with space for erin to dream and for me to recover. it was perfect. we met the most charming and loving and carefree of people. we met the people that you wait to meet your whole life. we frolicked the black-sand beaches. we drank rum and coke. we accomplished firsts after firsts. 

we made our way to sevilla. where we tied up loose ends. where we lived our spanish lives to their fullest. oh, spain. i left my heart there. 

my dad came! he visited spain! vacation bob! we wandered the streets with darling erin and later made our way down to cádiz. beauty. 

and now, here i am back in america. in michigan. in the house i grew up. there is too much to say about being here and too much missing for me to be able to say it. ah, the walnut tree and the basement and lou and papi-- wonders of the world. wonders. 

but before i get too settled, before time passes too quickly, before i am able to take a true deep breath in order to regain consciousness.. well it's time to go again! pack the bags! its time to go again. its time to keep on going.  my bags are packed. 

and off i go on this running journey of the summer that i seem to find myself in, i am off to mongolia in the morning. off to mongolia! to see cj! to see the country! and the people! mongolia! but most importantly, cj! :) at last, reunited with cj at last. 

well. here we go. back for a second and off again. just the way i like it. and here we go.