Thursday, 14 February 2008

2007_07_01_archive



The return of the Gringa

It's been a while, I know. After my return from SMA in June, I

realized I was complete fried and needed a break from just about

everything. My family and I went to the beach, then we started moving

into a recently acquired cabin situated in a remote location in the

West Virginia mountains.

We were there over the July 4th weekend, cleaning things out and

setting up furniture, and we finally had the telephone installed (the

only technology I'll allow in the cabin--there will be no Internet or

satellite TV). On Saturday evening the phone rang, and I was startled

to hear Lucille (a fascinating woman I recently met in San Miguel) on

the other end. It turns out Lucille is visiting her son who lives in a

similarly remote location in Pennsylvania, and she decided to look me

up. How she found me (recall we just moved in) is another story, but

her call made me realize that I could remain in a persistent mental

vegetative state for many weeks before I actually start to feel ready

to work again, so why not start now?

To be honest, the only reason I can think of is that I still feel like


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