highlights of DC August

334 revisited

I rarely have recurring dreams.  Or dreams that trouble me.  I am really fortunate that my dreams are usually easy like reading a good book and often just take me into pleasant day-to-day situations and living.

But I have been having a dream now over and over for months.  I must get back to the Quebec House to retrieve something. It is mail, or a package or my car (it is my 1988 Madza in my dream which I have left in the parking lot for 4 years).  Somehow I try to break into Apartment 334. Or pass myself off as the current resident to get the mail behind the front desk. And there is always something weird with the elevators. I can't get to my floor, or there is construction, or a giant crowd.  And it is really annoying.  Like it is a total pain in the ass errand I must run and can't get finished.  And every time I go back, it feels weird and 'other' since I no longer live there. The deeply familiar is now 1% off and foreign. 

WHAT is up with that? What am I trying to retrieve? What don't I want to let go of? What am I missing?  And why can't I get it?

home part 2

I am going to DC en route to my Leadership Program in CA in 2 short weeks.  

Being in WI for Christmas was so deeply comforting and root nourishing.  And now a visit to DC ought to provide the other injection of home right in the core.  They are my 2 US homes -- after all -- one of my youth and one of my adulthood. And both keep my memories and my people and my touchstones. And being there brings me closer to who I am and feels just ... good. 

And I wouldn't be me if I didn't blether on about Whole Foods (even to look!), Spices, Target and burritos a plenty!  (why does it always come to that? I am a simpleton)

Among what may come, I am hopeful for:

• Teaism with the Babs U and Shinny
  
• Spicy Crunchy Time and soaking up life with Helena
  
• Regular lunch with Andy
  
• Walking Connecticut Avenue top to bottom
• Meeting Ben McD and seeing his cheery parents
  
• Filter coffee
• Meeting man friend of B's
  
• A US mobile
• Waking up on the Hill
• The red line
  
• Retrieving leftover belongings from various people's homes/shipping back  art to the UK
  
• Moderate temperatures and likely blue skies
• People running up the escalators and down the escalators in true harried/hassled DC style
• Merry Mary J
• Ability to online order US things and  get them at B's
• Incomprehensible cab drivers who charge nebulously by the zone
• Cleveland Park ease
• Buying Bumble & Bumble from Axis
• Possible Nail Avenue mani/pedi
• Eating a rueben that I didn't get in WI (Krupin's anyone?)
• Seeing my pals a plenty
• Seeing what's new in the capitol
• Prelude to 40th
  

i feel his pain

me and sam let it out

an andy but a goodie

proud jaffes

oldies but goodies, plus a sesame seed size McDonald