I did it. I made the leap. I embraced the new. I waved goodbye, said I love you but I have to go, and cried the whole way out of Texas.

I can't believe it really came and that it is really happening. This whole new life. I'm not sure how I really let go. I keep expecting to wake up. Or for the trip to be over.

But its a new chapter.

I am sitting in my very grown-up hotel suite all by myself. That right folks - sitting at a desk, checking emails after a day at work - real work. I watched the news while I ate some dinner (soup heated up in my very own suite kitchen) and went over my schedule for tomorrow. Its all terribly surreal. And I'll probably go to bed early tonight. Weird.



I have a funny feeling its all going to be okay. That we are all going to be ok. That we will make something for ourselves that we never dreamed. That we will make a difference in this world because we embrace it in all its crazy beauty. That we have stared the struggles and the fears in the eye and dared them to defy us. Not denied their presence but refused to be overcome. We are the wind,the stars and the song in the birds. We are beauty understoody some. We are a light for some to see and be lead by and we will shine and not be hidden. We, my friends, will change the world. By being who we are meant to be. I lovelovelove you. And I lovelovelove my dreams that you will occupy. Thanks for the memories. And for the ones to come.