in the Philippines

to minimize redundancy, please stay tuned to the travel blog and I will return to my personal blog after I get home.

http://tagalogtravelblog.blogspot.com/

be well!

My life is remarkable.

I am not sure if it is possible to not wake up in complete gratitude for this life. But it doesn't matter. I am happy to have so very much to be grateful for. Time for work, so I will leave it at that for now.

9 days and counting

hard to believe - but I am having bittersweet feelings about leaving for a month. Crazy talk, eh? I am just so happy. But the month will speed by, at least for me. Philippines, I am coming back!!

I will learn to row it...

of course, this is an advertisement for a brand new drift boat...but I so want to learn to row them...what an amazing weekend

departure is getting closer

and it is bittersweet. I am excited to be going back to the Philippines, really I am. And yet, I never expected that I would be thinking how much I would like to be spending this coming month tucked in some cabin in the woods, or traipsing around Alaska, or fishing anywhere or relaxing on the beach or even just snuggled up, watching movies with him. It is all good, it just draws out all the scary wonderful vulnerable places I didn't expect to surface again.

Makes life interesting, right?

42 days....

I am both excited to be returning to the Philippines and thinking about how much better good experiences are when shared...sure didn't expect to be sorting through all these feelings on the 2nd day of the new year! Not that I am complaining!

Focus on the beauty of it all, and how quickly a month passes. Right? Who knew how quickly these last 2 months would wiz by...big sigh.