Monday, July 11, 2011

To Chicago, With Love

July 11, 2011

I’m experiencing what feels like the biggest countdown of my life…. This is one of those defining events, all of which have a countdown, like high school or college graduation day, or moving to Chicago. I counted down to our wedding day, and my last day as an employee at Chicago Public Schools, but this, the countdown to our move to Chiang Mai, Thailand, feels like the biggest.

In 7 days I leave not only this city that I’ve loved to call home for the past 11 years, but the only country I’ve ever lived in. I’ve never lived out of the midwest or more than 2 hours away from my parents…

I’m proud to say I’ve spent this much time here and although I’ll always be a Michigan girl, I’ve got Chicago running through these veins.

To the students who crossed the threshold of my classroom door over the past 11 years at Chicago Public Schools, I’m forever grateful for the lessons I have learned as your teacher, for it is you that led me here.

To the students who roll out their mats week after week at Moksha, my eternal gratitude for allowing me to lead you through this practice that I hold so dear.

To Moksha for arriving on my path at just the right moment, for sharing the sacred teachings of yoga and for leading me to the man I’m so blessed to have as my life partner, my love Fuad.

To all the folks I’m so lucky to call family & friends, thank you for the endless memories & boundless support, for just the right amount of unconditional love mixed with tough love, for the laughs & tears over glasses of wine, for late nights dancing, days at the beach, for movies and dinners and brunch and parades, the list goes on & on…for all of you, may our paths cross again.

New students await…there are new rhythms calling in the distance, new resonances to be found, and new practices to be taught.

Forever the teacher, where there are students I’ll go…

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