Community

I've spent summer evenings on my friend's deck or in her backyard on folding chairs, talking, sharing, laughing, eating dinners filled with summer's most delicious things, while the last hours of the day slip peacefully away, the sun slowly dropping below the mountains, its last hour of light golden and seemingly enveloping us all in that almost fuzzy glow of summer evenings.

A lot of that is going to change now. Our group that has been meeting for over 3 years has come to a place where we need to make a change. Exactly what that change is going to look like, we don't yet know. But something. It might be a small change; it might be quite significant.

The point is that all of us in this group have such strong feelings for one another. We've developed an incredible sense of community, caring, support for one another. This is going to be a hard thing for us to do and then feel like we can enjoy as much as we did the old dynamic.

So spring is on its way, and then summer will come, and along with the changing of the seasons, and especially these seasons of renewed life, we'll be changing, too. I suppose now is as good a time as any. But change is hard.

As I heard someone recently say, "Duh, squared."