It's been a while... (Merry Christmas)

[sa_node]

I had a chapter in my life close - one that terminated with an eleven hour drive in suffocating heat, my car crammed with all my earthly belongings that would fit (the remaining earthly belongings adopted by friends or set free into the wild - years later, walking down the street I'll see a scruffy jacket in the corner of my eye and wonder at the

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[jarsofwind]

Welcome back.

I used to be quixote322. Now I'm jarsofwind.

Add me again?

[sa_node]

With pleasure!

[robin_rule]

i never let you go, i knew you'd be back. are you a doctor or a famous musician yet? are you at home temporarily, looking for a job, or settling into the high school bedroom with stuffed animals in place. planning to become emily dickinson who i have discovered was not quite the recluse we were all led to believe in school.?
'fess up.

[sa_node]

Confound it! This is why I fell in love with lj in the first place. People like you.

I am indeed (temporarily) settling into the high school bedroom, which has been partially converted into a craft room for my mother. I sometimes shift in bed at night, sleepily open my eyes to moonlight playing over jars and jars of beads. My feet will brush across a sleeping dog at the end of the bed so that I have half a second of sleepy surprise before I drift into the next dream.

[diverged]

Holy shit, and other exquisitely lyrical exclamations. You were pretty far down the column of "Gone Forever" acquaintances... but I've long thought nothing is certain.

So nice to see your words again. I'm glad you appreciate the quantum evasiveness of rogue beans. I hope odd contentment fills much of your balmy, climatologically backwards holidays, and I hope to read more of your inimitable words. I'm selfish that way.

[sa_node]

Diverged!

Perhaps I'm just a rogue bean myself. I keep slipping away from the grasp of the real world and keep coming back! (This time, it just took me a while. It's all about timing...)