14 days

myself and my forty closest classmates will graduate from nursing school in thirteen days.
this morning i spent my last saturday in the library, at least for now.
this girl is here.

things are good. real, in the way that only life can be. but deep breath, lazy saturday, wine with friends, slow sips of coffee, did i mention deep breaths, and i just accomplished something meaningful - good.

i found this recently, and i want to own it as mine for the next stage of my life. which is scarily wide open these days, but maybe that's actually, exactly, right.

'i want to think again of dangerous and noble things.
i want to be light and frolicsome.
i want to be improbable beautiful
and afraid of nothing
as though i had wings.'
-mary oliver

as i say, with shaking knees and heart beating fast: bring it on, life. bring it on.