Lauren’s Beans

I last wrote to this blog a year ago pretty exactly.  It’s been a year and I can’t quite believe that.  So here’s the preamble, the explanation, the preface to me writing again.  Because I think I’m going to need to write again.

That’s the reason I guess….when I’m in the midst of the whirlwind I can’t write, I don’t even want to my thoughts can organize and take care of themselves.  When I’m in the quiet places between I need to write I need to get the thoughts out of my head so that they can find a place to rest instead of constantly stirring.

So in short that is what’s happened I got caught up in my own private whirlwind and now I’m out on the other side of the storm.

I’m a mom now.  I found out I was pregnant in February. My favorite Italian phrase is dato alla luce or given to the light it’s an old italian euphemism for birth. I gave Jacob Oak Freels to the light on the 6th of October, 2008.  

I’m a graduate student now.  I finished my first semester of the Master’s of Landscape Architecture Program at the University of California, Berkeley in December.

I’m a resident of California.  I live in Berkeley, California now not is Alabama.

AND (this is the most significant and to my reassumption of writing this blog) I’m on parental leave from school for the next year.

Whirlwind year followed now by…. preternatural calm.

Well calm on the outside, but not really in my own head which is why I feel the need to write again.  I’m not terribly good at it I know but, I need to again so here it is.  The mental spew of 2009.