In exactly 18 days, I will begin a new life, I will leave behind my home, my chosen family, my tribe. Even my photographs from childhood, my hope chest that my aunt gave me when I graduated from high school, the first books I learned to read....even these will stay behind while I leap into a wonderfully uncertain future. I want to keep a written record of my preparation to leave the community that raised me from young adult to actual adult and then my journey across Europe to Australia. So here it is. A blog is born.
