"No matter where you go, there you are."
-Buckaroo Banzai

This feels so weird. I've spent such good time with such good friends, and when the evenings close, I have to say goodbye. Not the usual "So long, see you around," but "Bye, maybe see you around Thanksgiving, or if not then, Christmas."

I am leaving my family to live on my own.

This is only just really sinking in.

To all those that I am moving away from (I purposefully refrain from the term leave), I offer these inadequate words: Thank you. I will always remember you, and hope that you remember me often. I love you.

I will continue to post from school, both words and pictures (not for the first week, though, cause I'll be out building a team in the woods). Please stay in touch, and I'll try and do the same.

This is the closing chapter of a deeply significant part of my life, and I'm so grateful to all of you who have helped form me into the person I am now. As this chapter ends, another opens, and the possible directions are virtually endless. We'll have to wait and see where it goes.