So I was rushing between seminars today, feeling  on the surface sort of elated, but also mostly exhausted, overwhelmed, inadequate, and anxious, and I thought to myself, that is a strange cocktail of emotion to add up to elation. Wherein lies the alchemy?
      I realized that this Master's program, while challenging and delightful in many ways, is only part of it, that the real amazement comes out of the wider context of having my kids call me every day, having my husband be the glue to hold everything together while I am gone, and knowing that, when I get back in a week, they will have missed me like crazy but they will be fine.