I'm very blessed....

So many kind people said "goodbye".

So many kind people said "Welcome".

Now I'm taking things out of boxes again. I feel at home, and like a dog in space.

Yesterday I took an enormously long walk. I found a yoga studio, two public libraries, all the banks, a bakery, the coop, the other hippy dippy grocery, the bike store (w/ bike map), the UU church (apparently there's another close by) fair trade coffee, the bike path through the green space... it was awesome. Wierdly I could NOT find a public bathroom. Not in the place where I bought and consumed my large ice coffee and a bagel, not in the next place I visited, or the Goya-filled Hi Lo Grocery. Finally, I came upon a T Station, and decided to look there for a bathroom. Basically I ended up having this crazy identity crisis in there, just trying to get to a bathroom.

Kendra: Do you have a public bathroom on this side of the turnstyle (I REALLY have to go.)
Guy in uniform: Nope, nothing on this side.
Kendra: Well, if I paid a fare to get past the turnstyle would there be a bathroom on the other side?
GIU: Yeah, there's one on that side.
Kendra: Oh good, I just moved here... where do I put the money?
GIU: You don't have a card?
Kendra: No, I just moved here yesterday from Seattle.
GIU: and you didn't take the T yet? How'd you get here.
Kendra: Well, I'm staying right around the corner.
GIU: If you're staying right around the corner, why not go there, and save the money?
Kendra: Well, I really have to go, and they wouldn't let me go at the coffee shop where I bought the coffee, and then I walked awhile...
GIU: They wouldn't ?!

This guy didn't believe a word I said, and I'm not sure which part started him doubting me. I just had to go to the bathroom! Anyway, I found myself hoping he always worked that stop so I'd get to know him and we could laugh about it later... but mostly I was hoping I could put the money in the machine and get to the bathroom. He had the Woman In Uniform unlock a bathroom for me. It was wierd because it appeared to be an employee bathroom, and someone had obviously been smoking there just before. Also, instead of handsoap, there was hair conditioner.
I am a stranger in a strange land.
I am very happy here.

Today I had coffee with my dad and cooked veggie chili and went to a yoga class.

kp

Double Date Weddings 2008

Six years ago (and a week) Zak and I got married, and a week after that, our dear friends Ty and Jd did too. It was christened "Double Date Wedding 2002" by Wally Pleasant, a folk singer who was commissioned to write a song all about us.

This last week has been Double Date Weddings 2008. It has also been a wierd respite from our move preparations. I'd like to write more but I'm very tired. Here is a picture of Puj and Stevu from their wedding... there will be some of Bri and K's soon, but I didn't bring my camera so I'll have to wait. Now I've got to go to sleep.

I'm putting things into boxes.

It's really difficult to concentrate/focus/pack. One box at a time. That's all I can do.