How did this happen in only 4 months? Ottawa no longer feels like home. The streets and places to which I used to feel so connected seem sort of parochial now. Food prices are higher. I'm not up on gossip at my old workplace.
Uh, but spending time with my friends, especially today with Sarah Shaughnessy, makes me feel really comfortable and loved. I visited one of my 120 Holland neighbours today, too. Jeremiah (Bartram, not to be confused with my brother, Jeremiah Soucie) is a dear, sweet friend of mine, born only three years after my father. It was so wonderful to see him.
But. Things are different now and so am I and so Ottawa feels different too. My condo is not mine anymore, my brother has a baby, everyone I know is pregnant or a new mother, my friend Robin is moving away.
Adam said that this trip, more than just being a lot of fun, would oddly make me feel more at home in Washington. I think he's probably right.
1 comment:
hey,steadmans was my one big dept. store growing up in perth,n.b.
it was our 5&10 cent store, our walmart.
it was for a kid growing up in perth,the only store of its kind.
wow,them were the days...or were they eons?
how can you tell.
pappyjakc--- a distant relative of the blogger.
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