After a long, LONG hibernation...

I’m motivated to come back and dust off the old blog thing. The real impetus for this, as strange as it may seem, was a FAR less-than-ideal weekend spent with family. I won’t name names, but a weekend in Atlanta for a cousin’s wedding turned into a rather horrifying confrontation with a handful of people that I actually share blood with. I won’t belabor the point (there are plenty of gruesome details if anyone is actually morbid – or bored – enough to be interested). But in my true optimistic spirit (I feared I’d lost it all together a few days ago…) I’ll skip right ahead to the silver lining:

I am so grateful for the life I currently have and the people I can choose to surround myself with. It’s true that we’re born into family. It’s also true that we get to make a lot of decisions using our own free will (lucky, right?). Without suggesting that any one path is better than another, I simply feel the need to share my appreciation for the path I’ve managed to land on as of late. My colorful friends and inspiring colleagues remind me (nearly) every day of the possibility that surrounds me. My love affair with New York City (and now Brooklyn, sigh) seems to just grow deeper. Talent and energy is always here, when you're committed to looking for it.

So with that, I’m recommitting. To the Fall. To a blog. To making myself feel just the right amount of uncomfortable again. To new adventures (whatever those look like). To writing a little something, with a decent degree of frequency, that interests me. I’ll remind myself here that each post doesn’t need to be epic. It certainly doesn’t need to be shared (or even noticed, really). Just documented. Here.

(I would actually like to give a little nod to General Assembly and the course I took tonight with Derek from Greatist.com. You lit a fire under my ass. So thank you.)