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Today has been a day of emotion. I sit here now in my home of three years. Everything echoes because the house is now empty. Tomorrow I will pack up my car and not return here. It’s funny the emotions that you go through when you leave a place you have been living at. My mind is swarming with memories, my heart is filled with love. I love this house. It’s the most beautiful place I have ever lived. I am very close to downtown St. Petersburg. I live right off of 4th St, which is filled with a million awesome little stores. A new one just opened actually. My favorite consignment shop ever, Revolve. If I remained living in this house I would spend all of my money there I think, and all the clothes I just got rid of would soon be replaced. I also have been living by the best park ever. It is called Crescent Lake Park.  Everyday people bring their families, their dogs, or just themselves and walk around the lake. There is a massive banyan tree that shadows one  corner of the lake. In every direction you look there are smiling dogs trotting around with their owners, squirrels, sea gulls, and ducks fill the park. I could see the park from the screened in porch of my house. Here is the link that advertised our house when it was for rent 3 years ago, I saw this..and I fell in love: http://www.edwinbailey.com/rentals/house2.htm. 

I am saying good-bye to this place. And I am saying hello to a new beginning. One that is going to be beautiful. I am going to live with the man of my dreams and start anew with him. I cannot wait for what lies ahead. But tonight I want to remember my time in this place. Since being here I have discovered Florida, I have pet my first manatee, I was a team leader with the Obama campaign, I worked at the worst job imaginable, I got my first kayak, I fell in love with Joel. A lot has occurred since I have been within these walls. 

Today as I was driving to run an errand I was enjoying the sun beating in the window of my car. I looked out at all the people at the lake, I smiled and thought what a beautiful day it was and how excited I am for the week to come. I was so happy I could not help but giggle. At the same moment I was giggling I got a call about my roommates grandmother. She was not doing well in the hospital. A few moments later I drove past an elderly neighbors home. An ambulance was there with a stretcher outside. I thought of the emotions going on within that home, the emotions going through my roommates head, the emotions going through my boyfriend as he is working to clean his crab boat so he can return home. It got me thinking about how on this beautiful Sunday so many different moments were occurring in so many people’s lives. Here I am bursting with joy, taking in the sunlight, as others are weeping over the loss of a loved one, or working hard so they can return home. Here we all are, underneath this same sun, each of us on their own path, taking in that sunlight in their own way. I remembered again how lucky I am, and how very very important it is to embrace each moment of each day.

Life is the most precious gift..Enjoy it…

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