and it's technically the same day....
THIS IS ME AFTER I LANDED!!!
After about 30 hours of travelling, touchdown in Kelowna, British Columbia was welcome and at the same time daunting. That feeling of being removed and displaced, homeless and without an idea of belonging, those are feelings of being lost. I imagine it is how a ghost feels walking through twilight. What makes it all okay though is thoughts of friends I have in various nooks of the world. They make me feel like I have a home with them wherever they are.
And, if it makes sense, knowing that I have lived a life less ordinary and trivial than most helps one endure the feeling of loneliness. Then again, I'm probably just jetlagged and this will all feel normal by Friday.
I would rather have this than a plodding life, not sure of why some people always stay in the same place doing the same thing with the same people. Though, to be honest, I am not sure how strong I am to do this 'moving around the world thing" many more times! Moving so often is akin to voluntary psychosis. But in the words of Susan Sommers, that immortal piano key-toothed American actress (I think she actually stole the quote from Liberace)
"They can't miss you if you ain't gone!"
My sister and her girlfriend Jodey are great as well as the two dogs and five cats they have who promise to sleep on my head and suffocate me tonight. Between a vocal malamut and a chatty siamese I expect no end of entertainment between now and Sunday when I go back to my folks' place in Ontario.
That will be when the real fun starts. AUCTION SALE TIME!!!
posted by Mark at 5:15 PM
3 Comments:
ok, Hafizah wants to know how you got your face to look like that. I want to know - what souvenirs of the farm WON'T be auctioned, if any?
10:24 PM
What souvenirs won't be auctioned off? Um, well whatever travels well. Important famly stuff and some antiques that have been in the family for a long time. My folks recently cut down a great big walnut tree that was planted in the 1800's by my great grandfather. Apparently walnut wood is great for making stuff so my dad and uncle are going to do something with it and maybe make a momento of our farm. I think a wooden cabinet would be nice or perhaps a really nice picture frame where we could frame pics of the farm.
Other than that, we have to travel light so we won't be taking much. My mother has said that I have to take one of the cats though. Not sure how that will work out. Hmmmm. let you know, :-)
4:44 AM
Oh yeah, and i got my face like that because I took a pic with Jodey's computer, a MAC. It has this wicked feature where you can take pics that are like funhouse mirros. Coool eh? Even if i didn't look like that I left like it...
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4:46 AM
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