It's nice but a little strange to be back in Binghamton, albeit a little temporarily. I've been seeing friends I haven't seen in a year (or years) and got an exclusive tour of the ED I started at 5 years ago - the beautiful new beds and spacious rooms completely different, and a staff I have dearly missed.
I'm at peace back, knowing that my place is no longer here, and so I'm able to simply enjoy things one moment at a time. The last few days have been a simpler life: homemade pizza and a movie, blueberry picking with friends in the sunshine surrounded by the rolling greenness and cut-grass smells of the Southern Tier, singing 7-month-old Shawn to sleep as he fretfully chews on my thumb, curling up with a good book in between studying for ACLS, time to rest and enjoy God and his blessings.
It's a refreshingly peaceful pause in the middle of a wildly intense summer. All I need now is a good place to put up the hammock...
