9-9-09 9:00 p.m. and 9 Impactful Moments of the past week

Greetings, readership!  I’m about to delve into the political scheme of Obama’s preposterous Health Reform speach and break it down for Team Meek to chew on.  First, though, a short need to elaborate on the past month.

Backward in descending date order, I spent Labor Day weekend having my first mother-daugter day with Mom-in-law Judy and got a new haircut that reminisces of Natalie Portman, missed the Labor Day celebrations and Patriotism in Springfield…..and am trying like the dickens to figure out how to get BACK to Springfield in short order!  My life is there, I love that place and am struggling with many existential factors in Kansas City that prevent absolute happiness.  This was the culmination of months in a city with no open spaces and no escape, but I arrove at a conclusion Monday (Labor Day).

Three hours and thrity-seven minutes after the start, another Boston requalification time down, a nice easy run with plenty of hills, pit stops and hugs along the way…..I am determined to make OUR home, OUR life in Springfield, Missouri.  We will start businesses, work hard for others, run for public office, run hard to make friends, hunt, fish, have a family, build a home, be an asset and an impact to that City, our home.  How to do this is a mystery in economic times as they are.  However, it CAN be done….where there’s a will, there’s a way!

We have gotten re-involved in politics and have managed to make good friends with ONE couple, sad, but life here is so lonely outside of them and the two of us.  Again, I miss Springfield!

We spent two weekends before in the city with a friend who is now in Basic Training and will also make his life with an ab-fab lady and enjoyed ourselves touring the facilities and taking up slack.

August was a chilly and dreary month in Kansas City and I am so remorse about being here with no real goal and seemingly ambiguous and arbitrary lives just eeking by.  I miss Springfield because of the passion and zest I held for that city.  I find my love now only in running, miles and miles until it hurts and I cannot continue.  What to do?

Give thanks, be grateful.  I know God is at work in all this and it is probably a good lesson…..something I am gathering from RCIA classes.  I wanted to learn more, and am diving in to a study of more orthodox faith, while still blossoming in contemporary environments.  Justin and I have both started new jobs and will be well a year into being newlyweds surely as we blink our eyes.  Truth be told, I never imagined what the first year would have in store, but I think we’ll make it.

We have skills and I know for darn sure I’m highly resilient, and he is a strength….a helper, a constant companion and inches closer to God himself, which is SO interesting to observe.  I’m making mostly just observations and will continue to write, perhaps volumes until it is appropriate to publish these things.  In the mean time, it is wise to pursue faith, justice, truth, freedom and HOW TO GET TO SPRINGFIELD to settle!

God Bless ya’ll and check this out for fun:

http://ctc.coin.org/hoa/results/2009.HTM

G’nite!