Louisiana, Colorado, Washington, Idaho, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee. I feel like I did in college when I finished reading On the Road. Worn out.
Four flights, come home, get in the car the next day, road tripping, "this feeling is as familiar as anything I know", the amazingness of hello hugs, the piercing of saying goodbye even if you can follow it up with "I'll see you soon", paying for airport parking, driving unfamiliar cars through a city that is just familiar enough to get you really lost, stocking the auntie's house with Dr. Pepper and Diet Coke and some wine, buying flowers for Grandma's grave, putting the extra ones on my cousin's grave in the middle of beautiful Idaho in the cold rain, quiet hugs that say everything, silent crying, every family is psychotic including mine, not talking about certain things, seeing cousins I haven't seen for twenty years, "I wasn't here until you started to read", Isaiah 55, Psalm ??, riding the Spokane carousel which makes two carousel rides in the last two months, maple bars, biscuits and gravy, showing up late for dinner after a long coffee conversation, eating someone else's Outback tasty pasta, driving through the rolling Idaho farmland with the winter wheat coming up, just missing the snow on our way home, running errands in Chattanooga, sitting on a back dock of a store trying to catch up in fifteen minutes and it just isn't enough, being tempted with chocolate pecan pie, going out and having just enough to drink, getting a big old hug from A at Foodworks, having dinner with the other Foodworks A girl, Thanksgiving dinner in Alabama with the in-laws, some sleep deprivation.
Posted by mike at November 22, 2007 12:59 PM
No, 15 minutes just isn't enough. But maybe next time we can have more time...
Which reminds me..."All times are soon, but in my house all hungry times are 1 o'clock."
Posted by: Krista at November 22, 2007 05:25 PMBy the way, we busted into the pie today and it. was. awesome.
Posted by: Krista at November 22, 2007 05:35 PM