Days Alone

Some days just feel lonely, even though you may have spent the whole of them with crowds of people. In the four years since I graduated from college, I have lived in seven new cities, and this fall I am once again relocating. Constant moving means constant adapting, and learning how to be alone- and NOT lonely- is an essential skill to this lifestyle.

  
At the beach this winter, I ran across these lone seagull tracks on the snow that nearly had me in tears for their seeming isolation.  After walking alone for a little while, however, the gull once again took flight and rejoined his soaring comrades.