Grandma and Grandpa are on teir way. I just checked the flight tracker and they are currently over estern Canada. hey will arrive 4:30PM local time and I am certain they will be tired. I will meet them at the airport, feed them somewhere and tuck them in for a a good sleep. I hope everything ig going well for them and that they sleep somewhat soundly on the flight.
How I am looking forward to seeing them.
Yesterday was kind of a laid-back day. I roamed around, did some shopping (razors, hairspray and food) and also went to bed early for a Saturday (roughly 10PM).
I am pnodering what we shall do for the rest of the trip,. The things I need to plan are destinations, timelines and, most importantly, reservations. That is the tough parat because without them, we will pay much more. I don't feel, however, we'll be shut out anywhere but I could be wrong.
I haven't forgotten everyone and I wan tot give Jordan a call to today.
I wonder how the dog's doing!
travel can make you feel small sometimes. oday, for some reason, I feel small and isolated... I know my folks are on the way. Perhaps, I haven't connected to Jordan or Sturm or anyone for a time. Also, this is supposed to be Jordan's weekend withme and I miss her. I will make the time up on vacation and we'll see alot of each other. I cannot wait to feel big again.
When one travels everyone is a stranger. Everyone is a people to be viewed with a certain amount of suscipion and caution. I am certain those people feel the same about me too. No harbor is your home when one vetures about the continent unless one makes a true and dedicated attempt to assimilate and ground oneself's into the culture and habits... I have made those attempts and was not unsuccessful in those pursuits.
Traveling fosters self-learning, introspection (as if I need more of this), suspicion, delight, exercise of freedom and mediation. One finds oneself more in touch with feeelings, thoughts, sights, sounds, passing glances and strange occurrances. I think travel heightens your perceptions of everything. I think that is why many great writers were explorers, venturers, wanderers to foreign and far places; they wander to become aware, perceptive and they become intoxicated with foreignest and differnences... I believe I do when it comes down to the gist of the matter. I become all of those things... the good and awful elements of my psyche emerge... my light and dark sides in all the nakedness and in all the unfortunate or fortunate respects. My views, my habits, my senses are attuned to the good, bad and indifferent of the world. Is this different than how I emerge in Dubuque?
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Jason, read your "waiting" as I am eating a taco here at home. I pondered your thoughts of great writers being related to new adventures and how you are more heightened in a foreign state vs. being a home town boy. I challenge you to become that home boy foreigner and see how your students will become more heightened too. I often feel we cheat ourselves and others by becoming status quo with our own surroundings. Great writing comes from the soul and living with your eyes closed , not from being scared/heightened from the unknown. We will have coffee at Shirley's and discuss this more. Mary Ann
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