Oh yeah

I keep forgetting to mention this, but in two days I'll be leaving with my family to spend two weeks gallivanting around the Maritimes (and Newfoundland, which Wikipedia says is not a Maritime). I am just about prepared for it, although I still need to trim my beard and get some money and some batteries for my digital camera (and maybe tape the battery-aperture shut, since, as Allentowners may remember, it pops open at the slightest opportunity) and do a wash and finish making this entry; what I mean is, I have all the books I need. It is to be expected that for that period I shall be uncharacteristically silent.

I don't think that I know anyone who lives near any of the places I'll be visiting, which is vexing, because I know so many neat people who live far away that to go somewhere far away and not see any of them seems somehow very clumsy of me - so if I'm wrong about that, and especially if you yourself are the proof, by all means let me know (I'll attempt to periodically find computers and check livejournal (or at least my comments) and my g-mail e-mail). I will, however, by the end of this trip, have visited most of not only the provinces, but indeed the provinces-and-territories, so ha.

I seem to write a lot of entries when I'm hungry, don't I? Weird.

What? Oh, right. So, I'll be back in early September. Everybody have fun without me!

Ocean Blues

I've been slightly cold all day, which is, considering recent weather, a remarkable novelty; whenever some part of me twitches with the feeling that I ought to close the door to my deck or put a sweater on, the bits that are relishing it drown it out. I feel like I can occasionally smell the sea on the breeze, and not just the sea but a sense of somewhere else, somewhere on the shore, with wind and rocks that you pick your way carefully through. Something heightened.

Sometimes I wonder if the world is just going to keep building into the numinous as I grow older, until I'm left wandering about with my mouth open, bereft of all power of description, breathing deep and occasionally, for no apparent reason, quietly beginning to cry.