I've been thinking about this blog a lot lately... like a friend I haven't seen in a long while. I can't get it off my mind, and I realize there is a relationship here yet. Two years ago everything within me went silent. Life loomed and threatened, and there was nothing about it that I wanted to say or share...not here anyway. I was absorbed in sheer survival—consumed and desperate. But two years is a long time, and things have become different, in a quiet and good way. Now words are bubbling up again, pressing for a way out. The relief I feel over this is something I can't find words for, but here I am.