My Newest Project for My Two Readers

So, a new project emerges. As you all (two) may know, I love a good project. What I seem to love even more is starting new projects (con mucho gusto) and never ever ever ever finishing them. Hmmmm. I think back to October when I started the mosaic table. The hammer, tiles, broken mirror and liquid nails were STILL strewn across the patio last night. Or to Januray when I started to knit a sweater and knit 1/10 of the sleeve. Four months ago I had my assistant, Megan, copy all of the word problems from another teachers' files. It was 220 word problems. I brought them all home. You know, to catalog them. Still in a pile (in nice plastic sleeves) on my bedroom floor. And the towels sit on a stool behind the bar, a whole week they sit and wait, to be washed in my great purge of dirt that started, but never stopped. This blog, the myspace, my journal, reading the Bible cover to cover in a year, reading "Mountains Beyond Mountains". I love the book, but I just wont finish it. I have been reading this book for going on 4 years now. All of these things have started and stopped on and off for minutes days months years.

But now I have found another project. One with no deadlines. One that actually might not leave me with word problems, dirty towels, and 1/10 of a sweater sleeve all over the floor in the heat of Pheonix, Arizona. My whole web log is changing.

I think my friends are my best resource. I have been a mess at varying points in the last 5 years and there they were at every place where I was. I do not think the reasons for the mess was my friends. Please keep that in mind. I would be in a mess or a great spot and there they were with me in spirit, on email, on the phone, at my side pushing me into the library, telling me to suck it up, laughing laughing laughing and giving me presents (wait, you didn't give me a present... well, get on the ball!). And I kept moving and moving and moving and moving and moving. And now I think I might have landed, as Ben Folds says, for a while. Smack dab in the middle of the desert. And surprise, even though I might not be in a mess, I still love them.

But how can I get them to know and love eachother? How can I have Julio and Sara and Weston and Carmen and Moyra and Katie and Travis and Suzy and Rich and Hudson and Michael and Richard and Sara U. and Liz and on and on and on and on and on all the way to Boston and Japan and the four corners of the world meet?

I am going to introduce you to eachother here. I will start writing little stories that tell why I love my friends and family (oh the fam damily, as my grandmother says). Maybe some of you will become friends. And that will be it. There is no start or finish to the web log. Its just another project which may or may not happen. But yesterday, sitting on top of a cactus covered mountain I thought "I have a great idea."