I apologize sincerely for my recent absence. There have been a few aspects of my life undergoing rapid transformation as of late and I have lacked the time to post any type of coherent exploration of thought. 

At the beginning of this year I participated in something called Mondo Beyondo. Mondo Beyondo is a creative alternative to traditional New Year's resolutions-- a statement of positive affirmation concerning the harvest one would like the New Year to yield. One of the statements I made in my Mondo Beyondo affirmation was this:

In love I will cultivate the mind I have been bestowed. I acknowledge that I have been wonderfully made and the mind that I have been given is fertile soil. I will allow education to flow into me, I will open my mind, I will open my heart. I will take responsibility for my formal education. I will re-enter university where I can cultivate my interests in writing, theology [philosophy], gender studies, and psychology. I will not doubt my abilities. I will allow the mind of God[dess] to revolutionize my mind. I will learn and I will love through my education.

As it stands I am currently approximately 3 semesters away from finishing my bachelors degree. I have been in and out of university, my longest stint of college education being the two years I spent at community college where I received my Associate's of Arts degree. After I finished there I went back to the original university I had begun my undergraduate education at (and consequently transferred from to the junior college). The experience went similarly unwell, and I ended up not returning after my second semester. Thus I have been laying low in the area of formal education, trying to listen to my heart as to what subject I truly want to work towards my degree, and working part time.

About two weeks ago a niggling began in my heart and during one of my sauna "therapy" sessions I pleaded a prayer asking for direction as to what next step to make. That same day I felt pushed to research an online program that has a campus about an hour south of us (a campus that eventually I would like to attend, and a city we feel we would flourish in). I found out that classes for the late fall quarter were about to begin.

These past two weeks have been a flourish of activity-- filling out paper work, making phone calls, faxing pertinent forms, jumping through hoops, all while trying to maintain a similitude of normalcy. As of this moment I have all of the work done on my end, all the papers sign, the i's dotted, there are no more hoops I could possibly jump through, now I must wait for it all to be processed and pray that the college is expedient so that I can register for classes before the deadline of the 17th of this month. Hooray!

I will be studing psychology. This is an undergraduate bachlor's degree offered through their online campus. I am hoping that eventually I will be able to attend on campus where I would like to take supplemental courses, this would include a double minor in philosophy/religion and nutrition.

Ultimately I feel good about these changes, this first budding of action. I still have my worries that something with fall through and this will all come crashing down around me, but alas! if it does I will survive. If all goes well I will once again be a college student October 20th!