This thing

Me and Liz in the mirror, originally uploaded by PrincessEmily210.

(I will appologize ahead of time, my keyboard is being taken over by the goernment and Cheney won't let half of myletters out unless i press them each a few times... so if it's spotty... i guess you'l have to deal)

I've had this realization lately of the people my life should be full of. It's hard to explain but here goes my try:
I was raised what most would call a "flower child." A vegan unti around age 16, my dad used to take my sister and me to outdoor festivals full of hemp and dreadlocks. Needless to say my private, catholic high school was a HUGE culture shock to me. Aside from religion (i was raised and except for a few years of nonsense, i still am unitarian universalist), I had never seen people who were so-- I don't know. Judging, stuck on themselves and on their possessions, or unaware of the world that went on around them. Even the town where I moved was like that, most of them not really having left Harford County much. But I met people, people who are still my best friends and it is not with judgement that I look at them, but with curiosity- wanting to know *why* *how* they work.
But lately I;ve been getting back to my roots, back to my upbringing and my true soul. People have been thrown into the mix of my life (or thrown *back* into the mix) in the past few months who truly inspire me and delight me with thoughts of who i *truly* am, and support me completely. (Except for Carin, one of my dearest friends I went to high school with, no one there had the similarities of the free spirited fmily support)
It is freeing and amazing. These kind, gentle, loving, aware, active people are my friends- it feels like I am 10 years old in Sunday School in a room filled with these folks.
I feel like I am being given a second childhood.


(thank you- miriam, meredith, jenny, aria, mike)
(and who can forget the threesome!)