treasure

weekend in chicago was lovely and bright, the possibilities there beginning to take concrete shape in people and talk of different jobs, hearing others' moving and settling-in experiences. I'm also aware that I'm happy and awake and aware simply because I am-- that I respond to everything in the outside world based on my internal weather-- and the climes in here the past week or so are simply, unaccountably sunny-- so the entire weekend in chicago is bright and easy because I feel bright and easy. and then back in iowa feel warm and wonderful with the circle of friends. and then all things everywhere, too many pieces to list, making me feel good connections to other people-- and I just want it to go on and on-- this-- this feeling of all right, everything just okay. but I know it can't always be this easy, and one thing to do is simply to be grateful for it. but really I wish I could bottle it up, save little life-saving ounces of it for the other times. make some kind of hay while the sun shines. keep writing-- just writing whatever whatever whatever. god, this is a gasp-- to be up out of it, in fresh air-- to feel good-light, as opposed to unmoored-- energized, head unencumbered, some huge impossible weight lifted so I can move freely. and from here it looks like nothing is so dire, so make-or-break-- only what I do today and then what I do tomorrow, all equally viable and fine and tying together into the fine whole which is My Life-- and that it doesn't have to map to a master plan, doesn't have to make a tidy narrative to a stranger at a dinner party-- that I am me, fine, regardless of what I do-- and that it's going to be complicated being someone who wants to do so many different things-- that there will be whole swaths of time when it seems to make no sense-- but the sense it makes is slow and intuitive and just right for me. this is what I have to remember to trust. giving myself the time and space and permission to move forward blindly and trustingly, ending up here, here in this good good good place-- warm and bright and aware that everything is just okay. I want to remember this, make a map back to this place, remember the steps it takes to reach this very spot.