Initial blog...

A post from Beckett



Well, it's a start.

We're getting this blog up and running before Suzi leaves, and as we sit in the corner of one of our favorite local cafes, we do our work. I on the blog, she on her homework. Ah finals. I remember those. I graduated 4 years ago, and I never thought I'd have to worry about things like homework, class schedules, presentations, finals, or essays. Yet, I don't mind. It's like getting to step back in time, revisit those old sentiments and the feel of excitement for the impending summer. The world takes on a new shade, the season change bringing with it a sense of hope and wonder and endless possibility. I remember when I graduated, that infinity, that runner's track with no apparent finish line. We get launched into the realities of adulthood that college had let us skim over and ignore for a few years. It's as much a beginning as it is an end, and that can be terrifying and wonderful all at once.

With a gaze in her direction, I wonder how she's feeling about it as she works. We've talked about it plenty, of course, but the look on her face makes me wonder what's on her mind now. She catches my gaze, but I don't look away. Instead, we grin at each other. There is a communication between us that does not require words. Maybe that's what makes this work so well. We are open and transparent with each other. We know each other. It's been just a few months since we decided that we had found "the one" in each other. Trying to define our relationship... well, that's pretty pointless. I can't define it with words myself. All I can say is, sometimes you just... know. You know? We've been told we are "twin flames" by an observer. Yes, that's pretty much it. Wikipedia that shit. It sums it up well enough. I can't think of a time I've been happier, more fully whole, more myself.

Perhaps that's what this is. Honesty. With ourselves, with each other. Maybe that's the point of this blog. Complete honesty. We want to share that with the world, and share with the world just how crazy this all is. Reality check. Is this my life? Wow. This only happens in movies, right? For two people to match each other so well, work together so well, have the same dreams and desires and interests and values... how does it happen? Well, why question it? Why not just be happy with what we've been blessed with now? All I know is that loving her is the best part of me, and as we launch into the post-college life, we have big dreams and big adventures coming. First of those is, of course, the Separation. At least, that's what I'm calling it.

The Separation is the Europe trip that Suzi is taking at the end of May. After several months of being around each other every day... yeah. Not being able to see her is going to be... odd. Lonely? Hard. But hey! We have this blog! Yes, blogging seems pretty good. We won't be able to call much, and I won't know where she's at to be able to write letters to her (she'll be pretty constantly on the move), but the world we live in affords pretty easy access to internet. Suzi can blog about what's she's doing in Europe, and I can blog about what I'm getting up to here in the States. And you, dear readers, can follow along in the adventures.

If you wish to know what we are up to... this is it.

So, during the Separation, there will be posts form Europe, the Camino, there will be paella, there will be foodie pics from Spain, there will be countless stories from abroad. On my end, there will be home projects as I prepare a place for us to live in, there will be gluten-free/paleo recipes to try out, there will be camping trips, organic farming, foodie pics (let's face it, Suzi and I are both hopeless foodies).

Here we can share our honesty with each other, and we can share it with the world (or at least those who care about us).