May is my birthday month. And it is also the end of my semester. So May is a huge space of transition for me. When I started this blog back in 2017, I planned to write a few annual features: a daily Advent blog each December, a weekly poetry post, and a birthday month blog. Some of those things happened, then a Covid blog happened, and then lots of other things happened, and I have not posted to this website since May of 2024.

In April, I started to feel the vibe of my coming year—blurred background images and overheard voices rustled, reshuffled into place around me forming a perimeter, creating a waiting room of sorts. I feel like a passenger taking a summer road trip. I have some magazines and snacks. Conversation when I need it. The AC works. Outside, the trees and cows and semi-trucks roll past.

I am in no hurry.