A change of scenery will do us good.

I started this blog just over two years ago – about the time I began looking for something I would never find here.  In this blog or in this place.  Of course, it wasn’t until now that I realized I would never find it here.  In this blog or in this place.

That’s not to say that the looking was in vain.  In this blog or in this place.  It’s not that I haven’t found a lot in the years I’ve looked, in the words I’ve typed, and in the things I’ve seen.  I’ve stumbled on many nuggets of truth, some pretty prose, and the grand finale all-important epic realization of what I am not.

I am not Albion.  And since sophomore year, I haven’t been.

and that is what I owe Albion for – I couldn’t have done it without you, dear Albion.  I gave a tour the other day and told a family I came here because I fit – because I looked around and felt like the people were like me.   When I came here, bright-eyed, mild, and fresh from a relationship I was sure was going to define the rest of my life, I did fit.  And had I gone anywhere else – anywhere else that burns with the kind of fire (and frankly, insanity) I now find in myself, I would have stayed that girl I was.  Or thought I was.  The girl I was when I could swallow down the parts of myself that make me burn with drive and intensity.  The parts that make me aggressive, feisty, and brutally honest.  The parts that make me as many enemies and friends.  The parts of me that are just as much a part of me as the pearls and the brownies.

In honor of this transition – this new phase of life and this change of scenery – I have created a new blog that fits better the woman I have become.  Or rather, as they say about Kappa Delta, the woman I have always been.

You’ll find it – and me – here now.  And assuming you like the woman I’ve always been, you should stop by sometime.   If you don’t, that’s alright too – thanks for what you gave me while we traveled this road together, and I wish you all the best.

Well, I guess that’s it; let’s get on with it.  We are alive, so let us go about our business.

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Love.Rachel