thanksgiving

it is the tuesday before thanksgiving and i am pondering how much life can change in a year’s time. a year ago i was anxiously awaiting a visit from my significant other at the time. i remember feeling so mature for having a east coast thanksgiving with this special person— we spent time (very briefly) in philadelphia, washington dc and new york city. it was certainly an exhilarating way to spend a few days! this year i feel so much more settled into goucher and ready to get off campus for a little while. i am leaving this evening to drive to massachusetts with friends. i am excited to return to massachusetts— both worcester and boston— which of course i wouldn’t have predicted a year ago. it will be so nice to be in a home and interact with family again, despite the home and family not being my own. i think thanksgiving is a great opportunity to expand horizons, so i am not fretting about not going home. when i do make it to shoreline in december it will be my first time home in over six months! college in general is such a prime time to explore new parts of the country and meet new people— i am so grateful that i am able to experience this! i am so, so thankful for my family for allowing me to have these wonderful cross-country encounters. i could not ask for a more supportive family and i look forward to seeing them greatly over christmas. i am also extremely grateful to all the friends i've made at goucher, and especially the ones that have opened their homes to me in the last year. i realize how fortunate i am to spend time meandering— that’s certainly not something everyone is able to do— and i hope to become a more well-rounded, better-informed, and interesting person for it. i certainly can't imagine where i will be in a year.

happy thanksgiving to all!

here are some photos of recent events:
1. louie came to visit baltimore in october. it was a bit of a flashback to high school. i hope he had fun here!
2. the gorgeous autumn weather in baltimore! this is the sunlight in my room.
3. some friends and i headed up to our buddy debra's house in woodstown, new jersey. we had a blast at a square dance at her quaker meetinghouse, building a bonfire on their lovely audubon reserve property, eating vegetarian chili, and going to a cute coffeehouse in their little town. the weekend excursion really changed my opinion of new jersey.
4. this is the ghost foot of one of my friends square dancing.
5. the annual dining hall version of thanksgiving dinner left us all pretty content.