am i done yet?

I'm sitting here in my living room with the fireplace on. yup, still rainy and cold here in seattle.

anywho, I just put the vhs movie "anne of green gables" on. yep, that's right. old school.

I'm not doing my research paper that is on women who have been sexually abused's tendency to withdraw in marriage. nope. anne of green gables it is. :)

in other news, today was the end of my first year practicum class. the one that's kinda like practice counseling for all of us newbies. we went through a lot together this year, shared much with each other and both missed and fought for each other. it was pretty crazy to remember how our group started the year and then suddenly finding ourselves the end.

it's not the end of practicum for me, but next year i'll be with a whole new group of people and it will look a bit different. i realized today as we ended our time together that there is loss in endings, for sure. this i know well from my own story.

but there's also a celebration somewhere in the midst of this loss in remembering what we have gone through together. it felt really good for me to actually be able to see both the hard and the good of loss, of change.

that's all for now... 3 more papers and one final til the trimester is over! so close.

friendship x2

so true.

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares."
- henri nouwen.

friendship.

last night I got to hang out with my friend danielle who I've known since high school. eleven years ago! woah. she's married now and has a beautiful little girl, and i'm, well, not. anyway, she still lives in tucson, but was in seattle working at a jewelry show so we got to catch up. it was lovely and rich, and i'm so grateful for friendships. especially the ones that go way back.

one thing she said to me last night that stands out:

cori, you can do this whole life thing.

sometimes, i think we all just need some encouragement, someone to believe in us when we're heavy in our own stuff.
thanks D.

it's been awhile.

yeah, soooo, apparently the last time i blogged here was before i left for the world race.
in case you'd like to catch up on those crazy 11 months of my life, read here.

but now it is time for a new blog. a new place to put random stuff that swirls around in my brain, maybe things i'm learning about, things i think are beautiful, things that are hard, things that make me laugh, etc. who knows?

currently here's what comes to mind. so i'm going to be an AUNT in a few months. that's right. my sister's pregnant, which is so.stinking.exciting. also, the two married couples that were on the world race with me have recently had cute little ones of their own, also very exciting. babies are fun. so presh.

a month or so ago i saw a band called jubilee play here in seattle, and the song i fell in love with the most is called 'food and oceans.' the husband and wife wrote it as she was pregnant, so the song is about their excitement to show their incoming baby food and oceans and so many other simple things. here's the song/video below.. enjoy!

Food and Oceans from Live JUBILEE on Vimeo.