i'm grateful for all of the sweet emails and hugs and goodbyes i got from even the most unexpected characters at work. i felt like my time there had been important to me, even if i don't understand why now.  chatting with kim at the grocery story, cooking dinner with jimmy and giggling about killing the most noble cow ever, have a new piece of understanding about our job as consciousness being to just feel what is there without changing it, reading on the metro, sweet goodbyes with everyone, cheese enchiladas for lunch, being brave enough to not go out when i felt like i should but didn't want to, patience, tenthousand villages, obama's victory, amani,