Today marks the return and the beginning.  It is the day Thom and I celebrate our anniversary.  It is also the day, as of this afternoon, that I had one of the more focused ideas in the history of my writing.  It will be, or so I hope, the day next year I (perhaps) also celebrate the completion of such book that this idea choses to generate.  Novel in a month didn’t suit me so well, but spinning a tale while the earth orbits the sun?  I’ll take it.

It all happened quite suddenly, like the flick of a finger that starts the dominoes knocking each other over in the complex pattern of a picture.  A library book across from me on the train reminded me of my own most recent borrowing, and of the little slip of paper that waited for me inside.

Here’s to renewal and new beginnings!  Here’s to me and he and us!  And you, too!