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This is exciting.

To begin with, I’m always excited when I do something I’d said I was going to do. Makes me feel like a genuine grown-up or something.

Also, this is just something that needed to happen that I’ve been waiting quite some time for the right time to make happen. (Don’t worry: that sentence lost me, too.)

I’ve made contact with the Urasenke teacher in Santa Barbara.

And this Saturday, I’ll be going to tea practice for the first time since early April.

I’ll embarrass myself. I’ve forgotten everything. My knees will be desperately unhappy.

I don’t care. I’m going back to okeiko. A part of me that went missing when I left Japan will be restored.

I hope.