designing a parade

it's been quite a while since i've been here. there's been a lot going on. all good things. travel to far-flung lands (check out my other blog, which is also wanting for attention or at least fingers pressing on keys), gettin' hitched, moving across the north american continent, embarking on a 3 yr journey of formal landscape architecture training.

so many good things. good things + more good things = really really good things?
perhaps. but not for me. it's been rough. like tearing the bandaid off your knee as a kid and you're almost ready to start shaving but haven't yet so it hurts. that's kind of what it's felt like being away from the atlantic coast. you know that in time it'll feel okay. and approaching the edge just before it happens it seems like nothing, but then you're in the middle of it and you want to stop and you want to go forward and you just want to run away.

this semester is progressing much better than the fall. thank the sweet lord. my favorite (not favourite for all you canucks reading-is anyone actually reading?) class is Theory in Experiences and Place with Doug Paterson. the way i feel reading the articles and books or attending lecture is the way i feel when i read poetry. i feel light and like ive found my place in the world. in our last class on tuesday doug mentioned that one thing he'd love to design would be a parade.

well, if everyday is a parade, then i have the opportunity to design a new parade everyday. and why not?! i may not be where i want to be long-term but my parade can go down all sorts of roads and paths.

i love the 2 person parade i pull up the rear on several times a day with henry around our neighborhood. he has so much interest and excitement is so many things. while we walk these same few blocks multiple times a day he never ceases to find something interesting. also he little legs are so cute as he trots along.

life is what you make of it. and i just made vegan mac and cheese, steamed cabbage, and sauteed black beans. chow time! until next time~