Holy Macaroni!! Where does the time go??
I feel that it was not that long ago that I wrote something here - low and behold, I check, and it was two years ago. TWO years ago! I reflect on what was happening in my life when I last wrote, and compare it to now ... in so many ways, little has changed. And in a few ways, much has changed. I feel as if I'm waking from a deep sleep - coming to discoveries and epiphanies that I might have brushed up against in the past, but are slamming home now. Looking back over my 45 years, there have been difficult years that stand out for their own reasons. Years where it seems there's been more struggle and anguish than symphony and roses. I can identify 2 such times - one being my 2nd year of teaching and one being my last year of teaching in Manitoba. One for personal difficulty, one for professional challenge. There were a couple of blips on the radar screen since then, but nothing that quite compared to it ... until now. From about Sept. 2007 through to ... oh, June 25th ...