home again

So I am back in Oregon again, I arrived Wednesday morning... the weather had cleared up just in time for my flight to come in... beautiful sunny cold blue skies with deep snow-capped foothills. It's been a good number of years since I have been in Oregon this time of the year. What has brought me here... well, Aunt Julie is in the hospital again and it's seriously grave right now. A lot of my family has gathered and I just knew that I needed to get here as soon as I could to see Auntie J and to be here with the family during this time. Of course it is not an easy time to be here, but I do not regret coming. Life is usually always busy in Austin, but everything else just faded in the urgency of my spirit to be here at this time. We are just taking things day by day right now... heading to the hospital everyday to be with her. I've got to run even now to catch something to eat before we go see her today.

news from george

I was highly cherished today by an email from the only monkey in my life that read:

hi e,

this is george, the curious one. i've been missing you a lot lately. it's just not the same around here. come home soon.

hope you're getting some rest.

-george

p.s. don't worry, i'm keeping a close watch on jennifer. i'll make sure everything stays ship shape around here.

p.p.s. jennifer let me post some pictures on her flickr account so you can see how busy i've been since you've been gone.

p.p.p.s since you're not going, i was thinking about going to the conference this weekend. that way i could fill you in. someone has to go shepherd those sisters after all.