[berkeley]

>>I've acted out my life in stages, with ten thousand people watching...<< Donny Hathaway's "A Song for You"

I'm exhausted. I want to go to sleep, but my days at this desk in this room at this house are numbered. I feel the onset of change and am no longer afraid. Perhaps I will eat my words in a few weeks. Perhaps I will wish I never left California once I'm in Brazil struggling to speak a language in a community that I cannot understand. Nevertheless, it is something new. It is an adventure I must pursue. I think I'm ready.