Portland Thoughts
I never intended to stay very long in San Francisco.
The Nerdbrain says "Ooh!" to every scrap of information, but when it comes to city stuff, I've been overriding it from day one. Lots of interesting history here, but why bother with more than a passing familiarity when I'm on the way out? And I've been on the way out since before I unpacked. I like making and having friends, and I experimented with business networking when I was first here, but it's never been worth the effort to really try to build an expansive social network in a place I knew I was leaving soon.
Portland excites me not just for itself, but for my own intentions. Nerdbrain is thrilled. There it will be worth learning the history, legends, geology, names of wildflowers. Even if things don't work out and we don't wind up staying there for long, I have the intention to stay, and intention makes all the difference. Intention makes it worthwhile to learn every street and story, to learn the mailman's name, to form connections that aren't just made to be broken.
I don't know if Portland is the place I will stay, but it might be a place I could stay --and that is something I have never felt before, anywhere I've lived.
The Nerdbrain says "Ooh!" to every scrap of information, but when it comes to city stuff, I've been overriding it from day one. Lots of interesting history here, but why bother with more than a passing familiarity when I'm on the way out? And I've been on the way out since before I unpacked. I like making and having friends, and I experimented with business networking when I was first here, but it's never been worth the effort to really try to build an expansive social network in a place I knew I was leaving soon.
Portland excites me not just for itself, but for my own intentions. Nerdbrain is thrilled. There it will be worth learning the history, legends, geology, names of wildflowers. Even if things don't work out and we don't wind up staying there for long, I have the intention to stay, and intention makes all the difference. Intention makes it worthwhile to learn every street and story, to learn the mailman's name, to form connections that aren't just made to be broken.
I don't know if Portland is the place I will stay, but it might be a place I could stay --and that is something I have never felt before, anywhere I've lived.