The old adage says that the only constant in life is change. I sit here in a coffee shop down on the Kenai, exactly where I sat two years ago on the brink of beginning a new life as a classroom teacher, and now I am a few days away from beginning a new life, again, as a teacher in a new district. There are a lot of things that’ve changed, there are lots of things that are the same.

There were lots of times when I laughed until I cried and there were times I cried and cried and cried, but never cried until there was nothing left but to laugh. My childhood dream of flying has come true. I learned more then I ever thought there was to learn about life and death and happiness and sadness from my students and the community I was so lucky to call home. I have two lovely nieces now–I am excited to teach them to fly some day. So much life!

Thought on life and its constant change: the most important thing in the world is the time we share with the ones we care about.

Five or six years ago when I was quite close to finishing up my degree, I had this funny thought that I may someday go teach and fly in Alaska. It feels good to have made it! Now I have this funny thought that someday I’ll learn to fly instruments, get a commercial certificate and fly part 135 (charter/air taxi) in the summer time. It may happen, it may not, regardless it’s a fun funny thought to have :).

This is a haphazard post already, so how about one of my favorite book quotes? Yeah!

Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.

-Zora Neale Hurston, from “Their Eyes Were Watching God”