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I’ve been truly enjoying the amount of free concerts this city has to offer!  Today by far was one of my favorite collections at the park.  Himalayas, Cat Empire, and Brazilian Girls.  I was loving the brass sections and anytime the accordion is broken out-you know it’s good=)  Jon I thought of you!  Today I made a friend who was quite beautiful.  He is from Tunisia and has a beautiful accent and smile=)  We were thoroughly entertained by the young man in front of us dancing in his tighty whities with his cell phone tucked in and all of us collectively decided he had a sock or something stuffed-well anyway….It was freakin’ hilarious!  He’d get that booty shakin and there were 5 people around me that decided this was a picture/video worthy moment=)Ha!  You know you are jealous that you missed it!  All I have to say is how stinkin’ proud I am of the fact that I have never gotten lost in this crazy city.  I have gotten quite a handle on this town already baby!  Anyhoo, I have met some people with some nice smiles and sweet potential-ha!  No but really today just as I was getting out of my N station I saw the most beautiful baby and I smiled and waived-she just grinned from ear to ear and waived back.  It was sooo stinkin’ cute!  As much as I have had some let downs I still am up.  It takes a lot to bring this girl down!  Anyhoo, whosoever reads this I wish you well.

Peace.

Em

So my new home is soooo incredibly cozy. I have everything and then some at my fingertips. I am hangin at the McKinley Library up the street using my laptop. My community is predominantly Chinese and I love it! I am currently sharing a table with one young lady on her laptop and two young ones under the age of twelve=) I am so at home here. I haven’t gone much to Manhattan these past few days-partially because I have everything I need here and my work does not give me my unlimited metro card until next week! Tonight I meet up with some friends at the Aligator Lounge-my roommate and I share a love for the free pizza=)(And of course a good beer). Tomorrow I meet up with a friend on coop in fashion design. We are meeting at Cafe Lalo-our fav cafe. If you haven’t been there you must go-excellent deserts and great breakfast too. In my vacation time before the storm;-) I have been reading and writing quite a bit. It has been awesome.

I read this the other day and I found it quite striking….

“The unaffected heart is one of the dark misteries of human existence. It beats dispassionately in human beings with lazy minds, listless attitudes, unused talents, and buried hopes. …They never seem to get beneath the surface of their lives….Years wasted in vain regrets, energies dissipated in haphazard relationships and projects, emotions blunted, passive before whatever experiences the day brings, they are like snoring sleepers who resent having their peace disturbed.

The unaffected heart leaves a legacy of Disney World paraphernalia and a thousand lost golf balls. The sheer vacuity of the unlived life guarantees the person will never be missed. These people living on barrowed emotions, stumbling through corridors of time like shipboard drunks….never taste life deeply enough to be either saints or sinners”

I like what Brennan Manning had to say here-he kicks my butt!

Anyhoo, training starts next week and my first projects consist of some major grant writing. I am excited to dive into this work I will have set before me! I know once again I will be meeting some amazing people too.

Have a great one lovely people!
Peace.

Em

Last night I got to hang out with my friend Larry-and yes we had a bit of fun with his new computer and the "photo booth".  You gotta have a sense o’ humor for yourself!  He was helping me with my old but still very trusty computer amidst wine and good ole fashion polish food.  We ate our fat intake for 2 weeks!  Ah ya gotta love how the Polish-and German for that matter-do it=)  I love lard-especially when it comes in the form of Polish Kielbasa!

I thought of you last night Chris=)  I hope your hubby doesn’t get too jealous-our song came on-Death Cab for Cutie, "Soul Meets Body".  HA-if you were a man-we’d hit it off!!!  Do you know a male version of you?  I mean, really…;-)

"I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again.  Life moves at you pretty fast.  If you don’t stop to look around, you could miss it!"  Damn-I had a crush on Ferris Bueller=)    HA!

Last night I began to go through my old trunks-full of stuff that I have put aside over the years.  Old cards, little random momentos, and piles of pictures.  It was almost too much to bare.  In fact I left my apartment and hung out with some friends in the middle of the project because I was so overwhelmed.  Yeah so tears did flow a bit yesterday-I am not ashamed to admit that.  So many good and extremely tough memories are held in this place.  I still am excited for what’s ahead… 

Hello my sweets. I am soooo incredibly blessed to be surrounded by such amazing lovers as yourselves and it will be incredibly hard to leave your sides. But although I may not be physically present I have learned more about correspondence through making phone calls and emails. I know in past I have sucked at it at times-but I believe I have redeemed myself-right Chris?!=)

I wanted to personally write a thank you to my sweet Terri, Seher, Tiffany, Aaron, Rachel, Larry, Chris and Keith, Misty, Matt, Meghan, Niki, ….my fam all of you rule-oh and my PCC, Pagaea and Bucks team, you guys rule!

I love all of you but it’s finally time for me to go. I cannot beleive the words shared with me after my final interview. I have been offered an even better and more challenging opportunity and I was trying so hard not to yelp right there and then in my seat=) I am soooooo excited for this opportunity!!!!! And my team is amazing-my mentor is incredible. The talent and heart in that office is just awesome. Thanks for your support all of you!!!!!!! I am going to be working with an incredibly diverse and beautiful group of individuals out in NYC-religious leaders of the Muslim, Jewish, Christian and so on-I will be involved in the midst of polotics and religion-craziness I know. But I love learning and I love the challenge! There is just so much beauty in each of the faith communities I will have the priveledge of meeting and working with. I will be working with disaster relief and recovery in the heart of NYC. This organization helps the low income and the underserved in the city. I am extremely blessed I feel.

anyhoo, I am writing this while still visiting with my sweet Misty in Manhattan. So I will catch up soon.

Love you all,

em

So oh yeah-I am moving to NYC!!!!!! I am freakin’ excited=)

Peace

I am notorious for making everything into a metaphor on life-so why don’t I continue my legacy….

So tomorrow I am finally getting my root canal done.  I have put it off long enough.  And I took the day off in case it is the horrible experience some have expressed.  But I told my friend Terri-(who’s also my assistant at PregnancyCare) that when I had ALL FOUR of my wisdom teeth out a couple years ago I ate Indian food the next day!  She laughed hysterically and said "only Emily could do this"-she knows nothing gets in between me and my love for good food-not even pain=) 

Now to the metaphor-ah yes.  So you know that no true growth and progress will ever come to pass if you don’t get to the root of any issue or problem.  Even though going there you may incur pain.  In the long run it is worth it for your personal growth and well being along with those around you.  Admitting you need help is not a weakness, it is a strength!  There would not exist other people if there were not a need to work as a team, a family if you will.  My neighbor was sick yesterday and so my friend and I went to the store and picked up some Gatorade and Listerine for him=)  Life is so much better when we can work as a team, a family.  I know I am pure queso but you’ll get over it ’cause you know it’s true!

Beware of harking back to what you once were, when you are destined to be something you have never been.   

paraphrase O. Chambers

Take a risk!

Peace.

Waiting has never been my strongest point-but in these past 5 years I would say it has been a bit easier-a bit.  The beauty of it all is that in these years I have come to recognize how much change can feel great!  I welcome it gladly.  You know the proverb that expresses the basic truth that there are things we can change and things that we cannot.  Well, while I have been growin’ up and changin’ my family amazingly has too!  It is crazy.  Although there are some things I am glad will never change about all of them.  Their humor rules for one.  I love that my dad, step mom, and I watched a movie this weekend-TWICE-and cried at the same points=)  It was stinkin’ cute=)  We’ve all grown up so much-and felt the pains.  But we came through the furnace and although a few scars-we shine as if refined metal.  Don’t get me wrong the work is not done with any of us=)

So again I write about another wonderful evening with my favorite-married with child-couple=) 

First of all, driving down South into Kentucky and crossing the bridge is always a highlight-it’s the simple things in life folks!  And to have a fresh salad and a burger just fresh off the grill ready for you when you arrive-damn that is good=)  Food is definitely a way to my heart!  But an evening with these folks rules!  Their 3-and-a-half year old is incredible awesome, intelligent, beautiful, ridiculously funny and always entertaining (She reminds me of me! HA! Aren’t we conceited;-).  (Not to mention she melts my heart when she says "I love you Emmie" and gives me a kiss and a hug)  Mom and Dad and I get into the most interesting conversations-you know all of you wish to be a fly on the wall;-)  Our sex talks, faith talks, social justice talks, parenting talks, bodily function talks(this usually comes when it gets later-when our inhibitions are even more lax=)  All in all, you need to meet these folks but you have to be willing to keep it completely real!  They are beautiful and I am soooo incredible blessed to have them in my life!  They are my family.  But so are all of you!  I love you all and wish you a good Wednesday filled with a mix of good ole’ fashion humor, some lovin’, and lots of relaxin’!

Peace.

Em

I hope you are well.  I don’t know where you are or how you are doing.  But know that you are well thought of=)  You know I’d want you to be on my team-afterall, iron sharpens iron.

Peace.  Wish I could take flight on this beautiful day.

Mmmmm….Last night was so incredibly soothing.  I could smell that rain was swiftly approaching through my open window in my living room.  It was dusk and I realized as soon as the rain began to gently fall-I needed to check to see if my sunroof was open!  So I went outside and just stopped in the middle of the street….it was beautiful=)  The rain fell so gently and the warmth of the air around me well, it was beautiful.  In those moments you just don’t care how wet you get=)  I’ll never be too old to enjoy a spring rain.

I hope to have an update for all of you soon by the way=)

Peace