Freedom

wham:a different corner
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There's something about summer that really opens you up to a sense of possibilities.

Right now we're facing down the barrel of uncertainty. Jude doesn't know where her career might take her, I don't know where mine will allow me to go but we're kind of certain that when you offer things up to the universe they have a way of settling that just works.

Were all of this "where are we heading next?' stuff going on during the winter I'm sure that we'd be feeling a little weighed down by it, a little daunted, a little tired of the thought of another book cull, another moving company rip-off, another new town to negotiate.

But it's summer. And that means that what this is now all about is possibility. We're thinking about which places have the longest summers, the closest proximity to beaches, which have the most fabulous houses, the most amazing people, the most opportunity for growth. And it's actually all pretty spirit raising.

Who knows. We may stay in the US, we may head back toward familiar Asia, we may move to strange new Asia but the great thing is that with the decision will come some certainty. It will have been six years of living out of a metaphorical suitcase. First "here until the PhD." is over. Then "here for the length of a post-doc" contract. But with the next move comes - "here for as long as we want to be" - which temporally may be no different, but emotionally makes all the difference in the world