My Many Colored Days

Being an early childhood teacher, I take lots of wisdom from the many wonderful children's books I own. (Just ask my dad, where others in college were insuring their CD and electronics collections, he once suggested I take out an insurance policy on my children's book collection). In Latvia, I am living in the pages of Dr. Seuss's book "My Many Colored Days". Ok, it might be true that the darker days are really piled up in one part of the year and the knock-you-socks-off bright days stick to another part, but I can promise you that the range and depth of color I have seen here in two years, is really something. For me at least, rainbows like this (quite literally and figuratively) have been a regular part of my life here! You've gotta put up with the rain, if you want the rainbow...

Some time after I moved here, my very good friend IG asked me where I really consider my home. I surprised both of us I think with my answer - my roots will always be where my family is, but my heart has always been at home here. And so I go about carving out my place in the universe, surrounded by the good, the bad, the ugly, and the breathtakingly beautiful. It's a real and constand reminder of the stuff that life is (should be) made of. I need a place to document it - so here it goes! Enjoy the reading.... :)

"Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it turned into a butterfly." That was me two years ago. That's the whole of Latvia every spring. We are gaining five minutes of sunlight a day now - wonderfully noticeable! I'm ready for the brighter days ahead.