Well! Here I am blogging again from the heart of British Columbia this time, a week after my move to Canada to join my husband. It's a beautiful spring afternoon, the sun is such a golden soft pool of light, hot enough to be a blessing without the ferocious bite of the tropics (which has its own appeal) and the garden - dormant these past winter months - is fairly bursting with growth and promise. There are buds everywhere and green shoots. H has taken me on a tour of the front and back yards and patiently repeats the names of the various plants whenever I ask. My memory is not what it should be and sometimes it takes a few reminders to make it stick but I try, I try.
A new life, a new country, marriage. The past year has just ZINGED and TWANGED! Flew by on hummingbird wings. 2008 was a multilayered scrapbook: A busy, hectic job, tons of new faces and projects, trips to Canada, trips to Europe, visits back home, so much went on. Christmas and the yearend were incredibly busy with the wedding, and January saw me in Switzerland to attend a trade show. Little did I know that even then events were in motion that would see me out of a job by March and in BC by April.
I was reminded to journal my life this morning by a post in a blog I follow (zenhabits.net). He was right; a journal is an aid to memory, and 10 or 20 or 30 years from now, the specifics may not matter; little problems will have faded away; but a journal wil help me remember how it all used to be and hopefully be of help as I face new situations.
Hence the resurrection of this blog, which has gone by a few other names in the past few years.
