20 Years Later

Well friends and family, I finally graduated! I now have a Bachelor of Science in Liberal Studies. I decided not to walk because I'm going right into grad school and I'll walk when I finish that. I started my undergrauate degree at BYU in 1988; It feels pretty good to finally have completed something that I started so long ago.

I'm really looking forward to my grad program. I'm going to do my first year field placement at my current place of employment and I've chosen a daunting project. I will be working one-on-one with kids that have severe ADHD or other mental health issues, teaching them self-soothing and mindfulness techniques.

To prepare myself for this new challenge, I have signed up for a 10 day Vipassana meditation course that will begin Sept. 3rd. It is 10 days of silent meditation and introspection, and I'm both terrified and excited about completing it. If you want to see the documentary that inspired me to do this you can watch it on YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pk6RlUKanA

I look forward to writing more about it and sharing my experience when I get back .

Bringing it Back to Life

I don't know if anyone actually reads this anymore, but I figure if you do, then you're close to me and you deserve an update. Unfortunately, I have mostly sad news to share right now.

Dani and I have split up. For that reason, I'll be removing a number of posts on this blog that relate to our former relationship. The split is not bitter or mean, but it just seems like the right thing to do. I thought about deleting the whole blog, but it existed before Dani and I want to keep many of the posts as a kind of online journal.

Thanks to those of you that have been helpful in processing this with me. I'm sorry I haven't called more of you, but it's been a struggle for me to reach out.

I do hope to post here more regularly and get back into writing and thinking about things. The last several months, I have been absorbed with work and school, and I haven't taken the time to put effort into blogging. I miss it and look forward to exploring ideas here again.