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Well, it’s been a quiet month since quitting graduate school. Suddenly, I have time again to breathe. I was enjoying everything that I was doing then, but not enough to be doing it all at once. I’m definitely learning about limitations on my time and my other personal resources.

I keep forgetting that all the private stuff I’ve been writing about here lately—stuff that probably never sees the light of day, but stuff I need to write about just so that my thoughts and feelings are clear in my head—is stuff that no one but me ever sees. It’s good that it’s private, but it doesn’t do anything to answer anyone’s questions about what’s going on in my life.

Two things that I can share:

1. It looks like we’re going to have to take steps with my maternal grandmother to move her.

   Financially and logistically, the present situation isn’t working. All of us understand and respect her desire to be close to home, but she’s honestly not going to get any better, and if she gets worse, none of us are close enough to do anything about it: I live two hours away, and my parents live almost four hours from her. I think that what will eventually happen is that we’ll have to sell her house and move her up to Tennessee where my parents live, into some assisted living facility in the area that will be suitable to the purpose.

   These are choices that many families get to make every year, so we’re all familiar with them and empathize in our own way. However, when it’s your own family, it his you in a bit different way.

2. Church stuff is going really well.

   I did slip up and mention that I used to be a youth counselor in front of the church secretary and our choir director … who, as it turns out, seems to be acting as the YD right now while we’re between them in our church. I would not mind being involved again, but I have concerns about jumping into any sort of a leadership position anytime soon, if at all. I do have a heart for youth, and I love and miss working with them, but I just dumped something big out of my life, y’know?

So anyway, that’s some of what’s new with me. I’m sorting and sifting through a lot of things right now, all of them good, even if some of them are painful.