Au Revoir!

"...these are the times of dreamy quietude, when beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it" --Herman Melville, 'Moby Dick'

This blog initially blossomed out of a bunch of new beginnings--grad school, leaving my boyfriend of three years, moving away from tiny williamsburg to a new city. It then gained even more speed during the passing of my two grandparents, and the surprising end of that three year relationship which followed soon after. Luckily, that He has moved on to become a distant memory. And the few Hes that followed Him never really mattered much in the end.

But after a little more than a year of writing, I have found a new He, and I've found him unexpectedly at that. But in full disclosure, friends, this He is not new. In fact, he's been around for a little over five months now. Yet whenever I sat down to write about him here, I just couldn't--I tried once and it felt funny and forced and not good enough. My words sounded too real and normal and uncomplicated--but more than anything, they came nowhere near capturing how full my heart was or how much fun I was having. There was nothing to lament or yearn for or romanticize because what I have been feeling these last few months is tangible and real and strong and what I had been searching for in all those posts but just hadn't realized I wanted.

And so instead I wanted to tell you about things we'd done, or the guacamole and pancakes we'd made, or the places we'd gone to, or my rekindled affection for all things Badger (!), but the words and the stories didn't seem to fit here in a blog so unintentionally devoted to lost love and all sorts of other pasts. And so, with all this in mind, I've decided to bid adieu to Dreamy Quietude. New stories are beginning, and I need somewhere else to spill them all.

My new blog is going to be much more about the here and now. I want to tell you stories in words that are less cryptic, but just as pretty, this time around. Oh, and I want to share lots of photos, too.

So goodbye bloggie. Thanks for being such a good friend.