Carrie Newcomer, one year later, in Boston

I finally have a copy of Carrie's new CD, Before and After -- with an autograph! =) I've wanted to get my hands on a copy of it ever since she sang "A Small Flashlight" for the encore of her concert at Warren Wilson College last year (a song that I could have sworn she sang just for me...).

She of course remembered me - and my name. We checked in before the concert and I realized that I'm in a similar position to where I was a year ago when we talked in North Carolina - and the year before when we first met in Oregon: trying to figure out where to go next in life...

She made a comment about life being a cycle of circles of re-discerning that never stops (although hopefully it's a little different each time and we can get through it a little easier...). Then, to top it off, she opened the concert with "There is a Tree," and when she came to the line "in circles that grow ever wide" she looked right at me. And I smiled, and she smiled. =)