Six Years Today

April 8, 2009 | Laughing Knees | 15 Comments 

I haven’t been writ­ing in the blog lately and so al­most for­got that to­day is the sixth an­niver­sary of Laugh­ing Knees. For those of you who keep up with me on Face­book, you know what has been hap­pen­ing since my last post, but for those who don’t let me just say that the smoke is fi­nally clear­ing and I’ve made some huge changes in my life. I’m mov­ing to Tokyo to work for a year at my university’s Tokyo cam­pus, I’ve got­ten a nice apart­ment in a nice area of west­ern Tokyo (for those who know, it is in Suginami-​​ku, north of Kichi­joji and Nishi-​​Ogikubo), and, a to­tally un­ex­pected, last-​​minute de­ci­sion last week (af­ter two and a half months of fruit­less seek­ing an apart­ment for my­self) to move in with a friend who has re­ally been there for me since Feb­ru­ary. There was a while there when I thought I had com­pletely lost my­self and would never make it back, but with slow steps, tak­ing each day at a time, I’ve come back to my­self and can get through the days with­out break­ing down, even lots of laugh­ter now. I never knew just how far you can fall if you truly open up your heart to some­one. And I never knew, too, that un­til now I had never re­ally opened my­self to anyone.

But it’s Spring and all the pos­si­bil­i­ties ring through the air! Let’s see what this com­ing year brings and what I can make of it. WIth a lit­tle ef­fort, I think I might just come away feel­ing that every­thing was for the best.

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