This weekend, we're doing it again for the first time in years and years. If I could take this homecoming and put icing on it, with chocolate sprinkles on top, then marshmallow creme and a cherry, that's how I'm feeling now.
Spending time with her husband and their son has been the drizzle of chocolate and hot cup of coffee on the side. I'm in heaven.
Here she is, and no, that's not her husband. I didn't get this chap's name, but I think he works with the Fire Department.Anyhow, we're taking drives and eating out and sightseeing in their beautiful world near the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay, and at one point in our conversation I used the phrase persona non grata for some reason.
"Keep that up," Elizabeth said. She teaches Latin. So I was especially interested to read Dave Lordan's guest blog at Poetry Ireland, as he mused over the word relinquo. What a post for any writer, poet, or dreamer to read: do it!
Also on a theme of Latin is Membra Disjecta, which means "scattered things" or (for our purposes) a quarterly journal that publishes work loosely connected by a central theme. From their website: "Our next issue will come out in March 2009. The theme is “New Beginnings” or “Pirates vs. Ninjas”. That means you can send in a work about beginnings, starting over, pirates, ninjas, or pirates and ninjas, or pirates fighting ninjas, or pirate ninjas or ninja pirates, or ninja pirates fighting pirate ninjas before starting over. It’s wide open, people."
Pirates, ninjas, and starting over?
Seems like I'm back where I started all right, and that's a good thing. A fabulous thing, really.
Optimus!
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Your friend, Elizabeth has a very kind and warm face. I'm thrilled that you're having such a lovely time with her.
Sigh.... Latin...
I was no good at it. All I remember from High School Latin was "Mea villa est pulchra."
Kay, she's been a wonderful and supportive friend for *coughahemcough* years, as well as a great wife and mom and (I imagine) one of the best teachers the local kids will ever have. You're right, a face can say much about the beauty inside someone, as well as outside.
Now watch--I've very likely embarassed her into not commenting on this post!
You simply cannot put a price on an old friend ~ the kind you can pick up with anywhere you left off. I am blessed to have several of those but we don't get to see each other. We either call ~ or email, and it's amazing.
I'm glad you are having such a wonderful time and building new memories with her.
ARGH! We'll go sack and pillage something else tomorrow before your departure, eh?
Mimi, Amen!
Elizabeth, how did you know I wanted to play Pirates instead of Ninjas tomorrow??
Oh I love the fire hydrant and there's nothing, absolutely nothing better than catching up with an old friend and starting exactly where you left off. That's the mark of true friendship when it feels like no water under the bridge. You're a lucky girl. Happy sacking and pillaging!
'Don't know who that guy is but he's got a little pentagonal-shaped willy.
'Just saying... :)
The friend who knows you and understands, whether you say what's on your mind or not...priceless! I'm glad you have a friend like that to turn to.
That is the coolest hydrant I've ever seen!
Baino, sacking and pillaging is as fun as it ever was!!
Ken, perhaps that's why her husband's not in the photo? Eh?
Hope, I agree on both counts, absolutely!
Those are the best kind of friend--the one that you may not see for year,s but the conversation picks up right where you left it.
I've got a sister over there on the Chesapeake somewhere. She loves it. It's a beautiful place.
Yall have fun now!
It is beautiful, but I can't help noticing that people here remember which year something happened, by tying it to which hurricane came through that summer. Yikes! The mountains suit me fine!
Gassimo Maximo.
That's my latin pseudonym.
Such a sweet post.
Reminds me of this song,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvWiiUgT8Nk
Which is one of my favourites, so thanks! I always love reading your blog.
Terence, can I call you Max?
Carbags, thanks! I'd love to watch the video but I'm back home in dial-up land again so can't. It wasn't half so frustrating before I spent three weeks WITH high-speed internet. Now doing without it is terrible!
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