A stream of warm impermanence

I hope everyone is doing well back in the states with all the "crisis", "swine flu" and "re-structuring" going around right now.

Being nervous about having a job really makes you take stock, and I realized how lucky I have been not only in work, but in everything. Last June to this June has truly been the craziest, best, most stressful, incredible and unbelievable 12 months of my life.

We have experienced planning and having a huge wedding, moving across the world, 2 floods that destroyed the floor of our condo while it was on the market (one discovered while we were on our honeymoon, the other in the middle of escrow!!!!), Selling our cars, finally selling our condo, seeing more countries than we ever imagined we would, fighting the insurance company to cover the flood damage, getting a puppy and now a job change, and they have all turned out well. I said to myself, if you can just get through this layoff thing OK, then there will be nothing left that can happen. Let's hope I don't stand corrected too soon... ;)

I look at this month off as a reward for Krista and I surviving the year, and I plan on making the most of it.

- Brian