Waives to Friends visiting Santa Cruz. I'll be over there to visit my mother tomorrow. We usually do Lunch and a Movie Downtown. She's had a stroke and it keeps her brain active, since the rest of her body no longer cooperates. But if you are Downtown tomorrow and think you see me pushing a little old lady in a wheelchair, yes, that's me. Stop and say hi.
Thursday is sacred to Meeting Karen's Class and Giving Advice. Oh, and sitting quietly in our room and watching the waves come in. So we'll miss you, I'm afraid. Have a lovely time with your mother. What are you going to see?
That sounds lovely. The extent of wilderness you still possess in the US is enviable. I see foxes and deer fairly frequently but otters are very rare -- indeed, the last time I saw one was in California.
I grew up in Maine and New Hampshire, but spent 10 weeks + 4 months + 2 years in England between 18 and 23. It wasn't until the last few months that I finally started getting east and west sorted out correctly (and I usually have a very good sense of direction and read maps for fun), although I'd figured out about a year earlier that it was because the Atlantic ocean is always to the East...right???
Of course it is. Except in New York City, when it's more to the south, except you can't see it anyway, so it hardly matters.
Elizabeth Moon pointed this out to me once, long ago. You can almost always tell (if you care to sit and figure it out) where a fantasy writer (of heroic quests, this would have to be) grew up from where the land mass and mountains and rivers and deserts are on their maps. We had quite a correspondence about it. I still have it filed somewhere, probably in storage.
How lovely! I'm in Portland, OR, right now, about to head out for a weekend on the coast, in a little town called Yachats. Not beyond the reach of cell phone signal, but peaceful enough despite that.
The Mendocino coast of Northern California, they say, looks remarkably like Cornwall, if Cornwall had redwoods.
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I'll be over there to visit my mother tomorrow. We usually do Lunch and a Movie Downtown. She's had a stroke and it keeps her brain active, since the rest of her body no longer cooperates.
But if you are Downtown tomorrow and think you see me pushing a little old lady in a wheelchair, yes, that's me. Stop and say hi.
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Elizabeth Moon pointed this out to me once, long ago. You can almost always tell (if you care to sit and figure it out) where a fantasy writer (of heroic quests, this would have to be) grew up from where the land mass and mountains and rivers and deserts are on their maps. We had quite a correspondence about it. I still have it filed somewhere, probably in storage.
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The Mendocino coast of Northern California, they say, looks remarkably like Cornwall, if Cornwall had redwoods.
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