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by: tickledspirit

Plans have changed. Instead of traveling on wild adventures around the country, I'm having wild adventures right here in central Virginia. Instead of journeying to distant lands, I spent yesterday at the first farmer's market of the season in Charlottesville, selling mushrooms grown by my... ahem... fiance' on "our" farm.

I've been growing and changing in so many ways over the past 2 months. I think I haven't been writing because it's been so overwhelming, and I've just barely been staying on top of my own changes, trying to understand them as it all flies by, grasping onto new understandings and ideas before they've dissolved into NEW understandings and ideas! ...

...I also realized on my meditation course that I didn't actually want to travel alone for the next several months. I wanted to start building my life in partnership with this man I'm in love with. Before I left on my travels, we both acknowledged our desire and intention to be partners for life. At some point, he asked me if I thought we'd ever get married. "Sure," I said, and then he asked, "Is that a proposal?" "Sure!" I said, and it was done. We got rings from an antique store and announced it to our parents. Originally, the plan was that we'd start building our life together when I returned. In those 8 days of meditation, that quickly seemed ludicrous! Traveling around the country was an old dream, and not as powerful for me now as it was 4 years ago. What I want now is to start a garden and build a home and partnership so that I have a solid base when school starts in the fall (yes, I got in! With full funding!).
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