Naked Hope

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raccoonology:

Jeff is in Winslow AZ. today.  Getting closer.  Long drive home.  I really do have to clean the house.  I’ve been a pathetic bachelor while he’s been gone.  Wow. Eating peanut butter and beer for dinner.  Not taking the trash out.  I have to work tonight so I’m going to miss his coming home technically.  

My son’s show last night was amazing.  I laughed my ass off for two hours.  I needed that.  I almost didn’t go. Trying to be all sad and pathetic, but I went.  It makes me want to do Improv.  They make it look easy which scares me that I would bite it up there, but I still want to do it.  

Jeff kind of broke down last night and said he’s turned off all his feelings to get through this task and that they were flooding back.  We have both discussed our pathetic fears with each other and I must say that that made me feel a little better…that it wasn’t him ‘leaving me’ but him doing what he needed to do to get through this time.  A week on the road with yer mom…*shivers*…so I’m evil.  It’s okay.  We really haven’t been apart, and really its weird to feel this, I’ve been Amazing Independent Woman for a decade.  Then this week happened and I realized what a gift it is that we found one another.  I had just resolved to be a cat lady in my future and then Jeff came into my life.  Again.  25 years later.  

Hurry home.

nythroughthelens:

Autumn in full swing. Central Park, New York City.

After nearly 6 weeks of dealing with a fairly intense leg injury, I was finally able to go out for the first time yesterday and walk around the way I normally do. I think I walked something like three miles in total! It felt incredible to not be limited in the way I was limited previously while dealing with the slow healing process. I ended up going to Central Park to soak in the remaining bits of autumn since autumn is so fleeting here in New York City.

I met up with a few other photographers from Google Plus later in the afternoon. Prior to meeting up with them I got to the park several hours earlier to go to my favorite sections of the park. I was still a little timid and apprehensive about doing a lot of walking even though I got the go-ahead from my doctor this past week to engage in my normal level of activity. Thankfully, I realized an hour into climbing around in piles of leaves (sometimes it’s fun to abandon the paved paths in Central Park especially when leaves are involved) that I was going to be just fine! The foliage was a bit past peak foliage but there were some genuinely magical landscapes.

It’s no secret that autumn is my favorite time of year. A while back I mentioned to people on Google Plus that I am saddened that autumn’s finest foliage only seems to grace us with its presence for a few weeks out of the year. Someone commented back to me that the short-lived nature of autumn is what makes it so special. Perhaps there is some truth to that notion. The fleeting transient nature of autumn does make it memorable.

There is a bittersweet quality to the action of capturing it in full splendor; giddy delight at experiencing something so magical mixed with sorrowful anxiety knowing that in a short time all of it will be only a preserved memory.

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Thas my kid…’Billy’ in an Improv Remake of ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’…omg…thank you for this night you guys. : )