bloodsong1 | What is this feeling?

I recognize it. It is light and empowering. It is slowly filling my cube at work from the pictograph I received a few weeks ago. It is slowly filling me, starting in my second chakra.

It has been...many years since I felt this. I think the last time I did, it was 2007, as we ran between the storm systems to move to NY. It was that sense of something new and exciting over the horizon, a tingling deep within that whispered of rightness and good things to come and it didn't come from the Cute Wog stirring in my womb. She caused sciatica and postpartum depression. Although, thinking back over the last seven years, I can't really blame her. Depression has been my unknown companion since high school.

Still, this light, empowering feeling has a name. I know it does.

Hmm.

What is the name?

It's been so long.

What IS it?

Wait, wait.

I think I remember now.

Yes.

This feeling.

This feeling I haven't felt in over seven years.

It is...

Hope.