GOOOOD things today!

"...Home at last and now it was the time she had been looking forward to all week: fire-escape-sitting time. She put a small rug on the fire-escape and got the pillow from her bed and propped it up against the bars. Luckily there was ice in the icebox. She chipped off a small piece and put it in a glass of water. The pink-and-white peppermint wafers bought that morning were arranged in a little bowl, cracked, but of a pretty blue color. She arranged glass, bowl and book on the window sill and climbed out on the fire-escape. Once out there, she was living in a tree. No one upstairs, downstairs or across the way could see her. But she could look out through the leaves and see everything" (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn).

This beautiful glimpse into a little girl's life made me grateful this morning when I read it. I also have great news today!! I was informed of a good friend's travel plans today and I am COMPLETELY stoked and excited in a vicarious-living kind of way :) This is amazing news and will be a great experience (I'll give you more details in a few days)... In other travel news, my friend John Jolly from UW is heading off for his DTS in New Zealand later this month and will be blogging faithfully. If any of you are interested in his experiences, I'll post his links off to the right. Finally, another friend from UW and my Irish traveling buddy, Machalla, left for Kyrgyztan with the Peace Corps on Sept. 13. Records of her first few weeks are posted at her blog, and it's amazing reading. Her links should also be somewhere up here...

My next question, and the one I daydream about everyday (sometimes more anxiously than others)... where am *I* going after I graduate? Please keep me in your prayers :)