A brief absence... and reconnection
Its a bitterly cold January evening as I'm sitting in the warm and comforting kitchen of a very close family friend. Tonight I'm enjoying one of the calmest weekends after a quite some time. So much has happened since I last posted and I've had a brief absence from this blog... I have been gathering so many thoughts and put together a lovely tapestry of images in my mind to transfer onto the page but I've really have not had that quiet moment until now to write...so here is a catch up post after almost three weeks... I've been in New York and general north east of the U.S for almost two months, and it feels like a very short amount of time, but also long enough to start to feel incorporated into the every day life and I dare say almost feeling at home. I've discovered and have been shown some beautiful corners of the island of Manhattan and have visited four of the five boroughs... I still have to take the Staten Island ferry to the fifth borough of the grea