I like to re-read this every once in a while.
Creative people need time to
just sit around and do nothing.
If you're out of ideas, wash the dishes.
Take really long walk. Stare at a
spot on the wall for as long as you can.
Austin Kleon
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Bobby Burns said it well...the best laid plans...
This is where I'm moving in a week in hopes of having drier air to breathe. Mmm, whenever the smoke clears, that is.
This warning was published June 28. It is not likely to be better when I arrive in Durango at the end of July. (at the bottom of the map) Yes, my apartment has air conditioning. Thank heavens.
My son's house does not. But he is able to deal with high temperatures by closing up everything during the day, and opening it up at night. He has had high winds, which fortunately don't come from the areas where fires are burning.
View of a wildland fire with smoke blowing to northeast.
Thanks MC Escher, for this lovely transition.
"The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second."
-John Steinbeck, novelist, Nobel laureate (1902-1968
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I find your courage in moving at your (our) age enormously encouraging! Toes crossed it all goes well.
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised I've lived in Black Mountain for 19 years, actually. I will happily have a hoped for, perhaps another year living in Colorado...and any more is just icing on the cake!
DeleteLet's hope for better air when you get there.
ReplyDeleteFingers and toes crossed, indeed!
DeleteI don’t suppose the smoky air will help you, but hopefully it is temporary and the AC will get you through. It’s a bit smoky here currently.
ReplyDeleteI will just have to cross that bridge when I come to it. I do tend to have a bit of anxiety don't I!
Delete...thanks for the MC Escher treat.
ReplyDeleteMy liminal trip is a week away...going from a known to another known place, through a great long unknown! So Escher gives me the same feeling, transitioning from fish to fowl. Mmm, wonder which way I'm going here!! I'm voting for up!
DeleteYou would need some good balance to be a flying waitress. My wife's cousin used to work for Pan Am in the 60s. I hope the move goes really well for you and the smoke won't be too bad.
ReplyDeleteI hope your wife's cousin had a good time with Pan Am. My daughter-in-law's mom also was a stewardess, about the same time I was, but in New York while I was in Miami headquarters. We met at the wedding of our kids. Joanne loved it, and is still in touch with some friends she made then.
DeleteYou have a lot of courage, Barbara. I look forward to the mountain photos you will share from your new climate and location.
ReplyDeleteI surely hope the air is clearer when you get to your new home.
ReplyDeleteA woman I went to nursing school with became a flight attendant. Oh, the stories she could tell! I'm sure you have more than a few too.
You were with Pan Am in the Golden Age of flying , I was with them 1967-1971. One of my friends saved her old uniforms and just sold the pillbox hat on Ebay for over $800! JanF
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