We've got clouds and a bit of a breeze here. The weather forecasters continue to call this kind of weather "bad", but those are just the empty words of people who earn their living by guessing.
I'm listening to the new Nurse With Wound triple cd and sipping hot coffee. Life is good.
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John,
I hear equal enthusiasm for the art/culture of the city and for the open spaces. I've lived in both and each grew lonely in differing ways when too long was dedicated to the one or the other. Too much of a good thing really was sometimes just, too much. Maybe a middle ground is what is called for, or a teaching career with time to travel. There you go!
I think the same run-in-place kind of happy! can come from either because they represent creative extremes. Surrounded by street musicians, artists and international restaurants of Vancouver BC or Seattle, I will be found dancing in place and claiming 'I feel so free & alive when I am here', but I do the same dance and say a similar thing at the trail head of every long hike. I bet you do too. Maybe not the running in place or dancing part, but I know it is going on in your head! True?
Glad to have caught up on your trip and to know that you are well.
Stay so,
~Lorelei
Hi Lorelei,
I do enjoy that I am able to easily reach either the hills or the big city. That is, after all, part of the appeal of living where I live. I definitely have my own version of celebratory happiness when being where I feel truly at home - kind of a cobwebs-cleared-away alertness, usually with some singing. The singing part always embarrasses Willow. Ha ha. I thought kids weren't supposed to start getting embarrassed by their parents until middle school. Oh, well. That said, I notice that she's always singing too.
Teaching and traveling sounds about right!
all the best,
John
That is the appeal of my home as well. I throw in the sound, islands and Mt Baker, but you get the sunshine. Can't have it all!
The manbutterfly was cracking me up even before reading about the 'crapload of bats'. Why is that so funny? But good god it is!
Keep singing, I bet she secretly loves it!
~L
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