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Wow, it’s been so long since I’ve written here that I almost forgot how to log in to the dashboard to update!

I have been DATING, in the traditional (yet modern) sense, for the past six weeks. Wow, this’ll wise a girl up fast! Interacting with the modern man in the wild. Fascinating stuff! And now I get why Googling a person is desirable — never did before.

I have also been spending a lot of time with friends, I’ve hired a part-time freelancer to work for me 15-20 hours a week and that is going very well, and I’m learning how to truly have fun again while single. MY way. Not the way anyone says you’re supposed to. What is fun to me? How do I want to spend my time? How can I expand my horizons, get a little out of my comfort zone to grow and mature, live as honestly as I can? How can I make this business — and my life — into exactly what I want them to be? I am seeing progress on multiple fronts, and it feels really good.

I’m reading Radical Honesty with a friend, and loving it. We have a conversation every Sunday about the concepts and the applications to our own lives.

I’m amazed at how much more I understand now than I did a year ago — yet almost daily more aware that there is far more to know than I ever can. A heartbreaking yet beautiful truth.

I can’t wait to watch the whole Cosmos series, which I have yet to see.

I have been working for hours today on a large magazine feature on sustainable landscape architecture, and while researching some of the most progressive initiatives by cities leading the green movement—Portland, Seattle, Chicago, and more—reading about all these wonderful new programs and ideas, tears came to my eyes. This one in particular touched me:

“The Portland Multnomah Food Policy Council asked Portland City Council to create a garden at City Hall to inspire Portland residents to plant their own gardens and an extra row for the hungry. The Commissioners passed the Better Together Garden resolution on Earth Day, April 22, 2009.”

One of the points I am making in the story is that it’s about time the ecologists and horticulturalists who have been fighting to protect the environment for decades are finally getting their chance to shine. It is truly inspiring.