I told Emil at Kate Miano's Sunday evening jazz hours at the Gardens Hotel (every Sunday, 5-7:30 P.M.) that Key West is the only place we've lived that I feel connected to any more. We both grew up in Massachusetts, I in Cambridge and Janet in Lowell. Together we lived mainly in New Hampshire, Salem for twenty-three years, Rochester and Dover, and Manchester for much shorter periods. We also lived a few years in Massachusetts, some years in Pennsylvania, and nearly a year traveling to remote places.
But that was then and this is now. It's coming up on ten years ago that we got here, although we can only count eight years actually living here. Still, as I told Emil, this feels like home, and I feel connected to it. As Geoffrey Lewis describes it in
We have a vague idea now, that when the time comes to move on again, we'd like to go foreign again, maybe to Italy, or Greece. Whether we do it depends largely on how we feel, how healthy we are, and whether we can afford to do it. But if and when we do, we'll have left a piece of ourselves here.
As it says on one of Yuri's tiles, (but not on her and Anonio's web site) it's about the journey. Or, as an Afghan proverb has it, "Bloom where you are planted.".
2 comments:
Hey Bob, that almost sounds like plans are being made for departure. Say it isn't so! Key West needs you. Hope you stick around for a long time more...
"Whether we do it depends largely on how we feel, how healthy we are, and whether we can afford to do it."
Bob,
I wonder what the exchange rates are like over these day (???). Someone told me that even Ireland costs 'a nominal egg' these days.
Otherwise it sounds like fun.
Regards,
jm
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