All my bags are packed, I'm ready to go....

After endless emails, multiple purchases, several doctor visits, lots of trips to the storage unit, one very important vote, several calls to change my address, countless arrangements, one spontaneous dance party, lots of thank-you's, several good-byes, experiencing a range of emotions, and a few shots....
The to-do list has been completed, the bags have been packed.

I guess I am as ready as I'll ever be.


I recently visited my Nonni (Italian for Grandma) and she had this prayer of St. Francis of Assisi in the bedroom, I have thought of it often these past few weeks:

Lord, Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.