The culmination of my studies at Trinity College Dublin occurred on 15 February 2008 when I officially commenced in a delightfully formal ceremony conducted almost entirely in Latin.
I realized recently that I have not been maintaining my blog in large part because I am no longer living in Ireland and I am not sure how to continue with this blog from sunny California. Though I still think of Ireland daily, I find it awkward to focus on the extent to which I feel changed by the experience of living in Dublin. There are parts of me that forget I live in California now, that this isn't some extended vacation. There are parts of me that forget that Dublin is hours away by plane and not somewhere I can visit on a whim. There are parts of me that feel lost, confused, and thoroughly dislocated.
I've found myself drawn into conversation with ex-pats and international travelers who have similar experiences of the placelessness that comes after discovering that "home" can exist outside the context in which we were raised--assuming "home" can be found at all.
I have commenced. I have begun a new stage of my life that is distinct from what came before it though I may not be able to understand and catalogue the alterations until I have traveled a bit further down this path.
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