Going To

[inabrownstudy]

I have six weeks left in Japan before I will return to the United States, move from Seattle to Rhode Island, and start graduate school (a Ph.D. program in American Studies with an MA in Public Humanities at Brown; note the cleverness of my username). It is difficult to describe how I feel about leaving this place after two years, so I generally

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[peterredshoes]

Brilliant entry title.

Things listed in this entry that you won't be leaving behind:

• Having your own income
• Access to places you will love to visit and things you will love to buy (different places and things, but places and things just the same
• A life that will be at times terrifyingly difficult, but at other times more richly rewarding than anything you've experienced before

I trust that instead of leaving everything good about yourself behind, you will in fact take everything good about yourself with you.