welcome

I got to thinking this morning about how much my life has changed. About how here I am, on my own, without an authority figure within 60 miles of me, it's me, it's my life, it's totally mine. I do what I want, I make my own decisions, I'm growing up and just short of leaving those teenage years behind me. Here I sit, in this apartment I love so so much and hold so dear to my heart, and watch the gray clouds move into the city. Today, the sunshine will disappear and bring the rain. The city will be in gray for the next few hours and the rain will cleanse every sin this city has so dreadfully committed. But it's with that rain that also cleanses us and renews us. It's the one or two hours a day that the rain prepares us for what's to come in the fall and winter here in this gorgeous northwest city on the river. THose few hours a day of rain and then sun, show us what we're in for, for the next 4 months. And I couldn't be happier sitting here this morning and writing, having nothing pending and watching the clouds move into my life as well as every other portlander today. IT's almost biblical how it prepares us for something bigger coming, for a new coming of rain, a new season of life. So here I sit and welcome it.... soon the skies above the towers will be gray, and I welcome it.