One Step Backwards, A Foot Hangs in MidAir
Last night after Circle at the Sanctuary, I found something in my mailbox there. It was a bill from JC Penney's (where I used to work part-time) from 1994. There was information about Baby Bootie Charms (?!) in it. There was a check made out to them from me (also dated 1994), signed by me and otherwise filled out by my ex-girlfriend, Beth. The
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And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.
I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.
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You hear me good on this.
Hey. Where are you from in Ireland? Rural or urban place? Coastal or inland? Just curious.
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You would love the language and literacy of the people; that which I miss most living in binary California. I should take you there sometime.
Your posting today is magnificent
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That sounds incredible. I'd definitely go! The landscape I've seen, of Ireland, is absolutely eye-pitch-perfect. What's more: I like the rain.
I'm going to go look the place up on the map.
When did you leave Ireland?
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Wow! You've fuckin' kicked my wanderlust into overdrive. (I need to get a new subscription to "National Geographic", one of my most enjoyable passtimes being poring over maps, looking at cultural and landscape photography, reading good travel literature.)
Ireland, eh? (Sigh.) I would only worry that appears to never really get warm. (I like sweat too much to completely forego 90-degree weather.) Still, a longish stint there would charge the mind and skin.
Does the morality hamper the queer (of whatever stripe)much there?
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What are the odds of a broke American being able to emigrate there and find bearable work? (Maybe I should be a student again ... .)
And damnit!: I grinned out loud reading about the "snug". I want a stint with a pint in that thing ... .
"Gay scene" is, by definition, lacking in my book. Is there queer community in Dublin?
Anywhere with a queer Joyce-scholar senator is hardly shy of heaven to me ... .
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ANd I'll bring you to the snug at Kavanagh's. I found this review online:
Kavanagh's aka The Gravedigger's Inn (secret location on Dublin's North Side): It was a gloomy night when an expedition consisting of your's truly finally ventured out to find that last bastion of traditional establishments in the greater Dublin borough. After a couple of dead-ends it was finally discovered on the North Side of our Fair City. Without going into the finer details / giving away too much (:-) this is the place to visit if you want to check out a REAL traditional Irish pub in Dublin. Never mind how many tourist guides recommend all these places in Temple Bar(s) (which are pretty much a theme park built for our British friends anyway but don't tell them :-), they cannot touch the real stuff. You'll never meet tourists in the place, never mind stag and hen parties from across the water. It cannot get more authentic: Joe Average enjoying a quiet pint in a ( ... )
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You been there?
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