Emotions of Leaving

So over the past six weeks, I have finished my first year of grad school, moved out of my carriage house downtown (which took a majority of those six weeks), watched two of my boys marry the women of their dreams, said goodbye over and over and over again to my loved ones, and embarked on the journey of a lifetime.  It's an interesting feeling packing up the life that you know into a storage unit, kissing your loved ones goodbye, and giving up all the luxuries that we are afforded in the United States.  However, there is so much excitement boiling inside of me for the new luxuries that I will experience: peace of mind, slower paced life, more time to just sit and talk, living with and learning from people so different from me, and the opportunity to assist people in changing their community! I am sitting in the London airport right now, exhausted, but so high on life that I can't stand it.  Flight takes off for Nairobi in thirty three minutes, so I better go, but cheerio and kwa heri for now.

Also, a final shout out to Chad and Hart Berry who threw an AMAZING wedding this weekend.  Congrats, y'all!

Spencer