It is hard to believe that this is the ninth year I've been keeping this journal. I've been very bad at updating this journal over the last couple of years. It's because the reason I wrote here was to share some of the thoughts I found I couldn't anywhere else. But that changed, and it became easer to say what I wanted to say in my regular journal. That doesn't mean that I want to stop journaling here. If anything now there are new things that have to be said that need to be said in this journal.

In short, happy anniversary to me!