Reminiscent Summer Mornings

This whole summer seems to be going by in a blur. I'm only weeks away from going back up to Seattle and I honestly can't tell you what I've been doing these last two months. Lots of sleeping I guess? Well, I've finally kind of gotten my life together to start working on the paper I have to write as a reflection on my time in Morocco. So far, I think I've maybe written two paragraphs (of around 15 pages...) but it's something. With only two paragraphs though, I see that everything is slowly but surely fading from my memory. Not as a whole, but the little details I expressly told myself I wanted to hold onto.

Anyway, this all prompted me to break out the journals and sketchbooks and stacks of mementos of my whole year. In that stack I found the letter my friend Josie wrote to me while in London. She typed it out on the old typewriter she had just bought somewhere in town as I lay on her bed, eyes-closed, exhausted, and finding the repetitiveness of the loud typing soothing. I love reading and rereading this letter because it so succinctly sums up my feelings at the end of my time abroad, especially in the last few lines:

"'God willing'- as your favorite Arabic phrase goes, we shall enjoy tomorrow....Today we couldn't believe we were 21, almost done with college and a year away from being responsible for ourselves. We couldn't believe a year abroad was almost over. Here's to another day we can't believe happened...and the future that is impossible to plan and will according to our designs- a future we can only hope for, to reach out across the water towards a future we greet with the words 'God willing.'"