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twilight33On New Year's Day 1998, I woke up early as usual and looked around a house full of passed out people in north Seattle. Some of you were there, some of you weren't, and I... needed to get moving to think for a while. I jumped in my rental car, went to fill up the gas tank, and began driving without a clear destination in mind.
I ended up in Ocean Shores, over 140 miles away, but only stayed there for a few minutes before driving back to Seattle.
Why so soon when I adore the ocean and it takes forever to be able to see it in Washington?
Because for the life of me, I could find neither my shoes nor socks in the sea of slumbering humanity so I took off without them.
I do not recommend driving hundreds of miles or walking on a blustery and rainy Washington beach barefoot in the dead of winter. Getting gas at the station wasn't so fun either.
What a difference a decade, family and some shoes make. That's my beloved holding Kieran's hand on the tree & me in the other two (yes we have matching jackets now). My great-great-great grandfather also stood somewhere on this shore in the 1860s, which was not known to me when I was there the first time but is not surprising considering my trend of ending up in obscure places where my ancestors were.
I was going to write some soliloquy about contrast, change & growth; but after much deep and profound brain things inside my head, I decided to scrap that. Have we not all ended up in physical, emotional and/or other types of places we didn't remotely see coming a decade ago?
The answer is yes for every single one of you I knew personally back then and still do now, so let me begin this year by saying thank you for all your support along my crazy path and I hope I've been able to be of some help on yours. Not that you yourself are crazy. Well, in order to be friends with me, maybe you have to be to a certain extent...
Bonne année 2008, mes amis.
I ended up in Ocean Shores, over 140 miles away, but only stayed there for a few minutes before driving back to Seattle.
Why so soon when I adore the ocean and it takes forever to be able to see it in Washington?
Because for the life of me, I could find neither my shoes nor socks in the sea of slumbering humanity so I took off without them.
I do not recommend driving hundreds of miles or walking on a blustery and rainy Washington beach barefoot in the dead of winter. Getting gas at the station wasn't so fun either.
What a difference a decade, family and some shoes make. That's my beloved holding Kieran's hand on the tree & me in the other two (yes we have matching jackets now). My great-great-great grandfather also stood somewhere on this shore in the 1860s, which was not known to me when I was there the first time but is not surprising considering my trend of ending up in obscure places where my ancestors were.
I was going to write some soliloquy about contrast, change & growth; but after much deep and profound brain things inside my head, I decided to scrap that. Have we not all ended up in physical, emotional and/or other types of places we didn't remotely see coming a decade ago?
The answer is yes for every single one of you I knew personally back then and still do now, so let me begin this year by saying thank you for all your support along my crazy path and I hope I've been able to be of some help on yours. Not that you yourself are crazy. Well, in order to be friends with me, maybe you have to be to a certain extent...
Bonne année 2008, mes amis.
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Date: 2008-01-02 05:33 am (UTC)It's been an amazing ride, and a treasure to have you behind me. :)
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Date: 2008-01-02 11:44 pm (UTC)Email me your new address for a card signed by Kieran? I'm not certain we can make your party, but I'm longing for a date at the Queen Mary sometime. My treat!
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Date: 2008-01-03 01:26 am (UTC)