I never meant to give up on our project, but it so happened that sometime last summer I was overcome by the demands of everyday life, and have increasingly been forced to compromise little things that I used to enjoy. I am hoping this is temporary and that there are better times ahead, but am making no promises as to what will happen to this blog!
Now, I just had to make the time for a special post because a very exceptional life event has just taken place! Here's what I would like to say...
This blog was originally created to be a dialogue, a place where two cousins who used to know each other could re-establish their friendship despite the miles in between. Now that both of us have been preoccupied with other things and haven't been communicating regularly through pictures and stories from our everyday lives, I can really recognise how important our shared space was when it was still in bloom. I think we can say that we succeeded in what we set out to do! This blog has truly been a shared experience and a friendship, and now that it's been on hold, I'm missing not only my co-author but also the sense of sharing with our readers!
I seem to remember that somewhere along the way I wrote that the blog should exist at least until we have met again in one of our home countries. While our life circumstances have still not allowed that to happen, something unexpected happened instead. As I am writing this, my first-born daughter and my mother are visiting Amy in Oregon! When Amy and I last met, my daughter wasn't even born, and now we have made it possible that she could make this trip in my place!
Would she be there now if the blog had never existed? Perhaps, but I wouldn't be experiencing as much joy about it as I am now! While she is gone, I will be living in two time zones simultaneously. My morning is your evening.
(The pictures are a set I meant to post last fall. May the yellow make them an Easter post now!)
