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It is now June 26, 2010. It has been quite a few months since anyone has posted... since I posted. A lot has happened since then. I think my brain may have even collapsed under the weight of academia. I have been spending my time developing my new identity of 'teacher'. It is challenging and takes a lot of time to unpack your history to see how you see the world. The journey continues and it has been amazing so far.

I think of you. I think of Mickey, Ru, Nate, Danny, Ashley, Julia, Sam, Curran, Jon, Erin, JC, among others. I wonder where you are, what you are learning. I wonder what particular way you are looking at the world right now, what you have developed to navigate through this dense world of decisions, moments, interactions, thoughts, plans, feelings, confrontations, and choices. How have your recent months impacted your view of the world. How do you act now?

Inherently we have the bond of our path, but now they grow disparate. There was a moment when we shared so much, almost everything, and perhaps more than we will ever share with anyone again. Our time together was at a critical moment in our growth as humans, as citizens, as consumers, as thinkers.

I did not know why I started this post but now I see why. It is to thank you for all the ways that you all positively affected me, perhaps even just all the ways that you affected me. We grew together, we challenged one another. I struggle to find those challenges now, especially among friends. Now I look to institutions, to rivers, to teresa, but no longer to friends. We held something special. We held a way of looking at the world as a place that we could refine ourselves. That is rare. That, I believe, is what connects us, what strings us together and makes out interaction worthwhile...

To me anyway.

I love you all even if you don't read this. I will. And when I do it will remind me of something: gratitude.