Life is a series of collisions with the future; it's not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
I've been: a kid, a teenager, a mother, a daughter, a waitress, a technical writer, a computer consultant, a teacher, a network administrator, a telemarketer, a phone sex operator (no joke--but it was long ago), a mentor, nearly homeless, middle class, upper-middle class, a loser, a winner, a lover, a hater.
I am: a mother, a daughter, a sister, a reader, a graduate student, a tech writer on the side, a lover, a liver, a teacher, a lifelong learner.
John Burroughs said: I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
I must be channeling John Burroughs.
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