Full quote: Why, I feel all thin , sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can't be right. I need a change, or something. I can't believe its taken over a year for me to pull out a LOTR reference! 😉 But Bilbo's words ring so true for me these days. A few weeks ago I posted that I had reached the one year mark--and it has been a hell of a year! The highs were really high and the lows were low, low, low. As the school year finally came to a close on Friday, I am feeling like I can really step back and take a breath. A nice, deep, long breath. I have hope and excitement around the projects at school next year; but right now I need a break and some quiet, reflective space. As part of that break, I'm going to put a pause in the blog until school starts again at the beginning of September. So until then, I leave you with a picture I snapped of myself on my balcony as I was getting ready to leav