I am up early drinking coffee and trying to wake up. I am headed up north to visit B. and hang out for the day. I’ll leave around 8:00 a.m. which get me to her place around 10:00 a.m. or so. The nice thing about going up on Sunday mornings is the lack of traffic.
On my last post, I mentioned the books Without a Map and The Mistresses Daughter. Suz had left some interesting comments and I think she might be right. I had given The Mistresses Daughter to a close adoptee friend and she called crying after she read it. She kept saying over and over “this is my story!”. I think most adoptees find the book that profound. Suz had mentioned that she thought the author held back and I do agree to some extent but I do think the author is dead on about the adoptee experience. The feelings of not fitting in anywhere, the oddity of reunion (although extreme), and trying to fit everyone into your life.
Without a Map was good but I just couldn’t identify.
I was wondering last night why I have this feeling I owe B. something. I don’t really owe her anything but there is still a nagging feeling. I wonder if she feels the same?
I’ll write more tonight when I get back. More coffee! And here is one of my favorites from Emmylou Harris…enjoy!
Wow! I didn’t realize how long it has been since I wrote the last post.
I noticed there are some nifty new things offered by WordPress. Apparently, I can add media at the touch of a button and that is pretty darn cool.
I am headed up to see B. on Sunday and I think it is supposed to be good weather. She and I talked about the book Without a Map by Meredith Hall. She liked it and I wasn’t too crazy about it. I ordered her the book The Mistresses Daughter which I prefered. For some reason Without a Map just didn’t do it for me. I couldn’t identify with the author or her reunited son.
Yesterday, I bought some flowers for the window box on the deck. I also stopped in at the fire station to get a burning permit which is long overdue. Tomorrow is devoted to burning brush and cleaning up the yard. I forgot how much work having a yard really is…
I downloaded the Robert Plante/ Alison Krauss album called Raising Sand. There are a couple of songs that I find myself humming. Alison Krauss’s voice in Let Your Loss be Your Lesson is great and the guitar work sounds very Eric Clapton-ish. Your Long Journey is an incredible ode to a recently passed spouse. Sad. And I love this song Please Read The Letter.
Anyway, that is it from here. Thanks for the gentle push, kimkim!
Work is crazy with a computer conversion in the works that is pushing the operational folks into a whole new level of drama. I am always amazed how they moan and groan that they work until 7:00 p.m. each night but they forget the rest of us are in at 7:00 a.m. We know they don’t get started until 10:30 a.m. after they have chatted and scanned the lunchroom for leftover goodies from the previous day’s catered lunch meetings!
My ear is feeling great and I noticed that I am starting to hear better. I heard a firetruck yesterday and it was wonderfully maddening! I find myself often saying things like “What is that freakin’ noise?” and I couldn’t believe how loud the spring peepers sounded when I took the dog out this morning. It is a great feeling. I downloaded the Sir Neville Mariner version of the 1743 Messiah and it is terrific. There is a lot of debate about the many versions but I like this one. I am no expert but apparently Handel (like any true artist) kept changing things here and there.
I often wonder what someone who found my Ipod would think. The Messiah, Amy Winehouse, Queen, KISS, FleetwoodMac, Vivaldi, Emmy Lou Harris, Mark Knopfler…hmm. Well rounded musical taste or crazy?
I just got down reading Interpreter of Maladies and it is just fantastic! I ordered The Namesake and I hope it is half as good as Interpreter. I also ordered Oil! which the movie There Will Be Blood is loosely based on. I find all that oil drilling and oil rigging stuff captivates me because my bfather headed west to work the rigs. But I suppose if he had been a swashbuckling pirate, I would be renting Pirates of the Caribbean.
