Digable Places
Sausalito
I’ve been in the new place in San Rafael for 09 days. I like organizing for more mobilility. You have to purge and pause and wonder how you managed to collect things in so little time. I wonder if any one will notice the things I left behind placed throughout the house and garden. I visited Morton Lane today to pick up my mail and peeked in Beth’s (my former) room. She had painted it freshly and moved some things around. She kept the apron to my Halloween costume I pinned up on the window above the bed. I liked that. Her space had a sense of earthiness and I liked that too.
For the next 7 weeks I’m staying with a co-worker in a lovely craftsman style house in San Rafael. I have to find new places to visit and new ways to make adventure. Just walking out the door with Ellen in the old neighborhood was an adventure. The walks near the house where I am staying in Gerstle Park are similar to the walks in San Anselmo. I guess once you get up in the hills, the demographic is the same and the vegetation certainly is. From the hills near here, you get a view of San Rafael. Night walks are nice; the town glows in the distance below. Ah California, ah Marin. Such a gift I am frequently grateful for.
I need more time to figure out my plan, but things are starting to come together. School is less of a struggle and I am becoming aquainted with two people through yoga. I sense the forging of new friendships. I sense the importance of being and staying connected. We are going to need each other to do the work. Song and dance would be nice too.
Caleb and I have plans to work in the gardens in Vermillion and to do some grouting and painting and whatever else needs tending while I am there. I would also like to re-paint the dining room and furnish two rooms to be rented. We plan to discuss ways to make the downstairs bathroom more a communal space. I want to take some things out of the house and to re-locate some things. I can imagine my house here, or maybe just me living in it; the best of both worlds. I will be home during July, but plan to drive back to California at the end of the month. More than that I cannot really say for it equals only speculation. Trust that things are getting juicy. Plans are getting ripe.
I cut my hair again and it seems just right though I identify strongly also with the longer haired version of myself. Myrtle told me that some little pearl earrings would go great with my hair and she was spot on! She is five. I’ve been listening to kids more and laughing a bit more too. I want to write a grant to bring a yurt to our school in Terra Linda and I think I can get a committee to support and help me. I have lots of good ideas, but sometimes fear being as good as I can at something. Maybe its universal that we are not our potential. That’s why is called potential. Once you arrive, its called something else or maybe it has no name as it exists in a realm beyond words. I dont want to go there quite yet. I like being on earth…in fact, I dig it!
