2004-08-24 - 4:16 p.m.
i've made it through another summer.
hi. yes. i'm back. (but don't i always come back)?
this may have been one of my hardest, my most valuable summers ever. i said tearful goodbyes to all my closest friends in this city at the beginning of summer, as they all left for new places. i thought i would work and keep to myself and try to just get by. start from scratch. start over. and then i met and became close with some of the most amazing people ever. and now that is all shifting. i feel like i have come so far. some kind of struggle is over now. the air has turned autumn unexpectedly. the heat is cranked in my apartment. this summer was more than i could have hoped for, or ever expected. i'll have to put it all down, i'd love to put it all down in this thing, but right now i want to walk around, half-crying, completely filled with joy that the seasons, everything in my world is changing again. the ancient ebb and flow.
nicole
