Changes,..

I am a teacher. I have been for about a month and I love my job. I get to hang out with kids all day, it is tough and my head hurts at the end of the day and my body is exhausted, but it is a good hurt and a good exhaustion because teachers change lives and their lives are changed by students. But once I hit the trail on my bike ride home, I am rejuvenated and the positive energy is taken out of the exhaustion and hurt. What does it mean to have new change in life?
I have lived with my girlfriend since January, which has been wonderful and still is and I love her and she is an amazing partner in my life. We moved into a larger 2 bed room apartment in August from a smaller one bed room apartment. What does it mean to have new change in life?
Jill wanted to buy kittens, so 2 weeks ago she did. They are a positive influence to our living environment. They were new when we picked them up two weeks ago, but they have grown and now they are growing larger. Isabel and Sylvester arrived in my life a week to the day before my childhood cat died from cancer. She was seventeen years old and in pain so it was for the better. I pondered the irony of this over the past week, but new life comes and old life goes. What does it mean to have new change in life?
I am taking tomorrow off school to celebrate my uncle's wedding. He is a dear friend of mine and he is an important person in my life. We have traveled together, backpacked, camped, seen concerts, taken road trips and toasted many a drink. He is taking on a new exciting journey with Victoria. I am happy for them and they are wonderful together. Maybe one day we will figure out what all this newness means.
There is a beautiful world around us with opportunity to discover new ideas and new places and new people and cultures and music and friends and relationships. Opportunity to breathe a new breath each moment and to live a new day each day.
I remind myself that we only have one life. Only one life.
But what does it mean to have new change?

Ben Harper's new album lifeline is on the stereo.