Good morning! It’s Saturday. The plane landed and the passport was stamped and the suitcases retrieved. The car went zoom, the downstairs keypad went beep beep beep, the downstairs door went click, the stairs were tackled, the lock un-clunked, our door thunked, and here we are!
My Fulbright year 1961-62 we just wrote letters. I went to the phone office place and called home once(was pretty homesick, the winter was very long that year) and it cost $60 back then!
Brilliant. You are so wise to get out of town right now, esp with the inauguration Monday, and who knows what fresh hell following it. Enjoy a fresh baguette, and perhaps you'll run into M.Habit on your way home.
I so envy you, Clara. Good to be in a place with so much history at this time—a time that we can only hope will pass without too much damage. It will lift my heart and spirits o follow your adventures—and BB’s as well.
Exactly - I needed the comfort of a place that has a much longer timeline during which it's seen a LOT of awful things go down. Of course they're fighting their own version of what's happening in the US, but still.
Glad you arrived safely to your other home of your heart. When we lived away from "home" for an extended period we found that we felt a bit nomadic, even homeless, and rather untethered. It took a while before we could feel the joy of having two familiar places to love. Being swept into an adventure is a lovely way to live!
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Happy days.
I am so happy for you. Enjoy - heart warming
Yaay I wish I were there!
My Fulbright year 1961-62 we just wrote letters. I went to the phone office place and called home once(was pretty homesick, the winter was very long that year) and it cost $60 back then!
Such a perfect essay and quote. I shall live through you for this next,onth, reminding myself daily of the world out there. Smile—
I love seeing that window, knowing that the forthcoming missives will be from Paris. For what did you go to school in Paris?
Also that you are likely to be in MDK's next Snippet with Franklin. Will you bring BB with you??
Words so true
What a lovely window from which to view your Paris adventures. Thank you for letting us, too, escape if only vicariously.
Oop… past the time when I should have voluntarily swept away some of the things, times, concerns which are in the way of my own JOY in living!
I love that picture❣️The quote is striking me today as too REAL - or too SOON, at the same time that I am Knowing that it’s
Bienvenue à Paris!
Fantastique! Amusez-vous bien?
Toujours!
Brilliant. You are so wise to get out of town right now, esp with the inauguration Monday, and who knows what fresh hell following it. Enjoy a fresh baguette, and perhaps you'll run into M.Habit on your way home.
Precisely why we slipped out when we did.
I so envy you, Clara. Good to be in a place with so much history at this time—a time that we can only hope will pass without too much damage. It will lift my heart and spirits o follow your adventures—and BB’s as well.
Exactly - I needed the comfort of a place that has a much longer timeline during which it's seen a LOT of awful things go down. Of course they're fighting their own version of what's happening in the US, but still.
It's always fun to visit old familiar places to see what's changed. Enjoy your trip!
Glad you arrived safely to your other home of your heart. When we lived away from "home" for an extended period we found that we felt a bit nomadic, even homeless, and rather untethered. It took a while before we could feel the joy of having two familiar places to love. Being swept into an adventure is a lovely way to live!