On Change and Starting Over, On Home and Belonging, On Community and Support, On Military Life and Service Lael Cowell Anderson On Change and Starting Over, On Home and Belonging, On Community and Support, On Military Life and Service Lael Cowell Anderson

A Letter on the Shape of an Ending

I am ready for what comes next. I need to say that plainly, because readiness and sadness are so often mistaken for opposites. I am ready for the adventure ahead.

And still, I want to end this well. Not perfectly. Perfectly is too heavy a word to place on a PCS, or on a family, or on a heart already holding too many lists.

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