my goodness- it's been a long time since my last post. where does the time go? i must admit i have done some fun stuff since march. most notably, we went to the british virgin islands sailing with another couple on a spacious 43' foot catamaran. it was my first time out sailing & i was in heaven. here a couple of photos from our trip.
it's hard to believe the summer is almost done & what a summer it's been, eh? a real scorcher! i am eagerly awaiting the return of cooler nights & days & the arrival of the fall season.
so... truth be told.... i have finally figured out that i just don't have that blogworthy a life, i guess. it has been a very long break. i'm back now, i think. we'll see. this post is something i find myself thinking about a lot.
my dog, sadie, comes to work with me everyday. i love that my dog spends the day with me at work. she's a great dog & greets everyone who comes through the door. some of my clients have asked that they not be scheduled on tuesdays (sadie doesn't come to work on tuesdays because i work at a clinic on tuesday afternoons & she can't come) because she's not there. i guess i'm not enough!
sadie & i go for a walk once or twice a day & we usually walk the block. my office is at the beginning of the 3500 block of grove avenue. besides our small offices, there is a dentist office midway through the block & at the end of the block is the advanced wellness center. everything else on the block is residential (including apartments). so we walk the block most every day & unlike my neighborhood, where i know most of the people that we pass, i don't know the people in the block. but i have noticed them a lot.
there is an elderly couple that live in the first set of apartments toward the thompson street side of the block. he is so tender toward her. he always opens her car door, even though he uses a cane & she does not. he often puts his arm on her back or shoulder in that protective way many couples do. they do not look like they are they are having that conversation that it looks like so many older people seem to have (i remember one time when i was in china & there was a tour bus- this chinese woman was talking very fast to her husband, who looked a bit sheepish as he was responding back to her- i needed no translator to know what that conversation was about!)- this couple seems rather harmonious. when they go to the store, they both carry the bags into the apartment (he always holds open that door, too). when he is able to park the car really close to the door to their apartment entrance, i always secretly applaud.
& then there is the house where there was a fire. the owner is doing all the work himself, apparently. he must have been renting it at the time of the fire. he has been working on it for at least two years. i'm beginning to wonder if he will ever complete it. here are the options i've come up with- he is 1) very exacting & perfectionistic 2) completely incompetent & has no idea what he is doing 3) has a day job & can only work on the house in his spare time 4) is renovating it for himself & his family to live there & wants it to be exactly what they want 5) another possibility i haven't thought of yet. i'm kind of tired of waiting, though. i want to see what it will look like when he is done.
a few doors down is the young family. they are youthful, beautiful & blonde. they have two boys & she is at home full-time. they have purchased a fair amount of furniture from ikea, i think. the boys appear to be around 2 to 5 years old. she has been pregnant & about a month or so ago, i noticed a young woman out with the stroller taking the boys for a walk, so i imagine the baby's been born. they are also doing some renovations on the house that aren't obvious from the outside- perhaps adding a master bath/bedroom? i wonder if she had another boy. i saw her in the house the other day- she no longer looked pregnant. i will add that they have a dog & their house is surrounded by a white picket fence. i kid you not. i hope she comes out with the baby soon - i want to know what she had.
aren't i nosy? i have always been pretty fascinated by the lives of others. by the human brain. by the interiors of our minds. my niece & i sometimes used to go out to dinner & make up stories about the other people in the restaurant. it was just a stupid little game we used to play when she was younger to entertain ourselves. we used to come up with some pretty fun stories. at least, we were amused....
in our world of so much anonymity & rushing about & mobility, it's pretty easy to go for a fairly long time & not see a familiar face. personally, i don't think we were intended to live that way. i think we are beings that require a form of community at some level in order to thrive; a sense of connection to others even if it's at a distance or without introduction. i think about the friends of some of my friends who i keep up with pretty regularly. i've never met them. they're good friends of my friends & i know about their lives, their broad ups & downs. & i guess they know about mine. of course all of this is all the more interesting because i'm invited into the lives of others in a limited, yet very privileged, way every day. it's how i make my living.
i love that i know the clerk at the floyd avenue post office by name & that she recognizes me. i like that i have a starbucks i consider mine & they know my drink (venti bold). i love the yarn lounge- talk about a community! i do ms. white picket fence shows up pretty soon with the new baby so i can see if she had a boy or girl. & i will worry & wonder if i see mr. or mrs. too many days in a row without the other. they don't know it, but their lives have touched mine.
& all this from dog walks.
ahhhh..... good to be back with mindless ramblings.
