and the beat goes on...

Hello my beloved friends, family, patrons, and perplexed observers,

So, i am finally graduating from college and this is what i know for sure ...

i want to see the world. i want to understand other cultures and people. i want to live and feel free. And for me, right now, that means i want to keep moving. I'm almost 22 years old and the last thing i want to be right now is "settled" - stationary.

It's when my dot is moving that i feel most alive... sneaking across the Togo/ Ghana border, repelling waterfalls in Costa Rica, sitting in the back of a trotro eating plantain chips, hiking mount Cameroon, riding on the back of motorbikes in Benin.

And there are those beautiful moments when my dot is still... listening... to thunder at the top of Machu Picchu, to the gentle whispers of the palms in the Cape Coast Castle, to the prayers of the people at the Ganges River, to the stories of friends, acquaintances, and strangers.

This is what i love. These are the times i'm going to look back on and think "Those where the good old days." The stories i will tell my kids - about when their mother was a "badass"

So, if all goes as planned, my dot will be in India and Bali in the summer and then Vietnam and Cambodia in August. And then, well, we shall see. Maybe grad school in London, or waitressing in some skeezy bar in downtown Amsterdam. I don't know what the future holds. And to be honest, that's kinda scary... and exciting. At this point, anything is possible.

As ChelsBeth very well knows, Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of independent India, said...

“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”

So for now, with my eyes open and adventures ahead, the beat goes on, yes the beat goes on...

Love from Berkeley