Since then ...

The best intentions of keeping up with my blog post Romania has obviously not gone so well. Today I was inspired to keep it up and going.
My life in the last few months summed up:

December-Catching up with friends, Christmas celebrations, living with sister Katie, her husband Andres, Andres brother Diego, and two kitties Jonah and Alice, looking for a job.

January-all of the above, watched all three seasons of LOST, did one and 1/2 puzzles (got bored), and started reading Moby Dick (I now no more about the inside of whale than anyone should).

February-procurred a job, job said nevermind, moved into the Park Avenue Community House with 6.5 other people, started working at Behaven for kids with behavior problems (clever name huh?), decided this was not the job for me, Servant Team friends from Romania came to visit.

March-visited super cool, sweet, little brother in San Jose CA, procurred job #3 since returning to States at Salvation Army, bought cute little red car, realized job was not so great for me, two new little cousins were born in Indiana!

April-new baby boy at the Park Avenue Community! working at SA, welcomed friend John and his parents for his commissioning at Word Made Flesh before his return to Galati, Romania, started planting garden at my parents with Katie (super fun), was able to speak at Beggar's Society on my experiences in Galati.

May-visited friend in Minneapolis, realized kids at SA don't really like me (sniff sniff), reading books on economics and the loss of simplicity and farm land (slightly depressed me), looking forward to June.

Phew, all caught up.

Feel like I am learning a better appreciation for the Earth and Creation this spring. I think the Lord is communicating more to me through these things than ever before. I read this poem today.

For, like a grain of fire
smoldering in the heart
of every living essence
God plants His undivided power-
Buries His thought too vast
for worlds
In seeds and roots and blade
and flower. ~Thomas Merton