Carpe Diem
Translates into don’t be impressed by anyone else’s version of the future, you have all the perspective you need right now to fulfill your day. This day has exhausted me because it started with a hurricane (alarm didn’t go off) and it has been thick with trying to stack the piles in their appropriate places and not making any headway. Traveling seems to wear down my defenses so I need to get my guard back up – because it’s like you are going along and then you realize your shields are down and bam, sharp objects poke you and make you bleed. Wonder Woman be my guide.
Some impressions from recent travels to Portland, Boston and New York:
T is a thin Donny Osmond with small teeth. He remembers when he was 11 and I told him to go out and engage with real people because that is where he would learn his best stories – as Eudora Welty said “Southerners live their narratives” – he’s now 14 going on 19 – adorable.
Casco Bay on Saturday morning with D who has started running again and was in Portland for the opening of the Gulf of Maine Research Lab – thoughts of my blessed body remembering how to run again – along the bay, across the old railroad tracks with diamonds dancing on the cold water.
A walk through the Commons in Boston with O – such a bright girl for 27 – reminded me of a year or more with J walking the same speed and having the same type of convo – the ability to have undisturbed serious conversation – provides a perfect venue.
Weather is outstanding
Dinner in South End at Stella – nice looking moes when we walked in and food fabulous – tagliatelle with bolognese – JW and S sitting at next table – Julie’s survivor package she pulled together for us because of Katrina – mojitos, stress mints, relaxing lotion, bath salts.
S laying out on O’s sofa at Custom House snoring up a storm while O and I try to drink bourbon and smoke cigs.
My laugh has changed to a throaty he he he than the higher pitched laugh I used to laugh.
Thing I learned – you can’t recall a sigh.
Or that F tells me he has moved passed lonely and he claims to be a homing device for architects – he looks like one of course which must be reason number one.