Today out for a ride on the Arakawa River I thought I had hit a bird. I wasn’t sure but it sure looked like it for a moment. It sort of symbolized what I have been going through right now. It’s my last semester of school. I got a fellowship to do sociolinguistic research in Los Angels, as well as being accepted to a linguistics conference in Illinois. These are all things that just manifested in the last few years.
At the moment in Japan and on the western side of Honshu, on the Noto peninsula, January 1, a devastating earthquake stuck. It’s sad. People were gathered for New Years and many people lost family members besides the snow and the rain. Right now just praying for them. You never know when your life will change so count your blessings.
It feels good but it’s all a little scary to make progress. But I’m always grateful for it all and I pray, a lot more now then I ever did in my life. I feel it helps. Cycling helps ease the transitions between it all too.
Next is a doctoral program? Well I seem to be on that course. All I know is to go forward. Not everyone is going to understand what you’re trying to do all the time. It get’s even more complicated when you try to explain it. Yet at this point I’m happy to be doing what I’m doing. Then there is the new job teaching Latin American studies at a community college.
Don’t give up.