I'm Back

It has been some time since i have written on this blog as life has been a wild ride. i am thrilled to say my son is now at george washington university in the physics Phd program, full tuition and stipend. thrilled and blessed. my daughter graduated valedictorian of her 2015 high school class. she received several scholarships and the presidential scholarship, as well as, academic grants from manhattan college. again thrilled and blessed. i am now reimagining, recreating, and rediscovering my life. i decided to start a writer's blog to share solely my writing and hopefully excerpts from a novel i have been working on for well over 8 years on and off, more off than on i'm afraid to say. :) it is thewingedflight.blogspot.com wish me luck kimberly baker jacovich

A new year

Awaiting college acceptances for both grad and undergrad. Fingers crossed for both son and daughter. Exciting and anxious times. The holidays were full and joyous, counting our blessings.

Suddenly September

This was an interesting summer this year between college visits and our summer vacation to the outer banks sans my son. He was offered a summer research opportunity studying Dark stars or something in that vein...studying the age of a star, I believe. He explains, I listen attentively, but suffice to say my astrophysics is subpar. Though I was excited for him, I also missed the family not being together as we usually are each and every summer. Things are changing, evolving, my children on that interesting cusp of becoming more and I love it and loathe it. My son is 21 this past August, my daughter will be 18 in February. It is all about GREs for my son and graduate school, and SATs and ACTs and common app for my daughter. It is exciting and stressful and I want them to be happy, to have joy, as well as, tremendous accomplishments, and peace. I am an older parent. I don't feel as such, but numbers can't be denied. My hope for the future is simple or simply to just be together as family. The idea of one day being a grandmother is surreal for a woman who still looks at life through youthful eyes, though a bit myopic and ringed a bit darker from day to day tribulations. My daughter spoke to me about her teacher telling the students they were in their prime, but soon their bodies will ache and their heads will be balding, and they will all get older. I laughed, but then had to smile when she turned to me and said, but you're not old like that are you? I try not to be, I replied. I get down often, I have had loss, I sometimes want to just hide away, but after telling my daughter my wish of being there for them for many more years and hoping for grandchildren, she again stunned me when she said you value life. So succinct, so simple. So true.

I wanted to share this quote: Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joy. -- Madeline L'Engle

Stunning Gettysburg College

The Moon

Happy Birthday, Baby Girl!

I see myself in you 

A reflection of temperament 

So alike

That we are often

A force so powerful

A thunderous roar

A storm

But so sweet

In its aftermath

Always love

Tender and light

A need to be embraced

Understood

And I do

Even in those 

Dark places

Of drama and angst

Because there will always be joy

Tremendous, spontaneous 

You are the gift of my heart, my soul

Though one was taken before you

I was not forsaken

You are my light

You are wishes come true

You are love

You are in the simplest form of all things

Life's hope

I cherish you!

Gettysburg Weekend 2013

I love the worm rail fences.  In the first photo, Gettysburg College is in the background.  My son is in his junior year majoring in Astrophysics.  My daughter is a senior in high school and will soon be college bound.  It is a glorious, albeit, bittersweet thing.  I treasure these days together.