rivers of gratitude
Mar. 5th, 2012 03:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
saffronhareI'm not making a lot of sense right now, but it's all for good reasons.
I received today by email from USF notification of PB's financial aid award. For the most part, she's being offered a full ride. (There's a couple thousand projected in loans per year, but when the total tuition was something in the range of $30-$40K/year, that's amazing. And they included stuff like room & board and "personal expenses." Rowan thinks it's awesome that their mascot is the Bull. Typical Taurus.)
There aren't enough words to express how overwhelmed I am by this news. Some of you might have a clue how financially crippling the last 5+ years have been. I was terrified that she'd put all this work in and we'd not be able to send her ANYWHERE at all, let alone one of the colleges she'd chosen. We'll wait on news from the other three, but this was the one with probably the *least* reason to recruit her. It's a tremendous relief to know that at least one of her choices is in the bag. It's really going to happen for her.
The email arrived just as I was getting ready to go do my workout, and that was a blessing too. Because I was able to put on my music -- thanks to the earbuds from triadruid! -- and let myself turn all those thoughts over in my head for a while. I had just started to give some thought to which Invisible People would need offerings of thanks, when India Arie's "There's Hope" came on Pandora and I just sort of dissolved into tears thinking of Ochun.
Why that should be, I do not know, but I know better than to ignore the kind of certainty that rushed through me. I've never worked with Ochun, mostly being a saltwater sort of girl. But, as they say, "the ocean refuses no river." And now I'm crying again. Jeepers.
I received today by email from USF notification of PB's financial aid award. For the most part, she's being offered a full ride. (There's a couple thousand projected in loans per year, but when the total tuition was something in the range of $30-$40K/year, that's amazing. And they included stuff like room & board and "personal expenses." Rowan thinks it's awesome that their mascot is the Bull. Typical Taurus.)
There aren't enough words to express how overwhelmed I am by this news. Some of you might have a clue how financially crippling the last 5+ years have been. I was terrified that she'd put all this work in and we'd not be able to send her ANYWHERE at all, let alone one of the colleges she'd chosen. We'll wait on news from the other three, but this was the one with probably the *least* reason to recruit her. It's a tremendous relief to know that at least one of her choices is in the bag. It's really going to happen for her.
The email arrived just as I was getting ready to go do my workout, and that was a blessing too. Because I was able to put on my music -- thanks to the earbuds from triadruid! -- and let myself turn all those thoughts over in my head for a while. I had just started to give some thought to which Invisible People would need offerings of thanks, when India Arie's "There's Hope" came on Pandora and I just sort of dissolved into tears thinking of Ochun.
Why that should be, I do not know, but I know better than to ignore the kind of certainty that rushed through me. I've never worked with Ochun, mostly being a saltwater sort of girl. But, as they say, "the ocean refuses no river." And now I'm crying again. Jeepers.
