LJ Idol - Week 8: My True North

[tonithegreat]

Days bleed into each other. The work stream is challenging enough to stay fun, but it never ends. It doesn’t even let up. Family triumphs are followed by family setbacks. The schedule of school and sports is relentless. Nobody wants to be the chatelaine. I repeat: Nobody wants to be the chatelaine. But you have to live somewhere and there just

Comments

[encrefloue]

Seems like a well-timed visit. I can't imagine having such a palpable connection to family past and family future-it truly is wondrously beautiful how those bonds steady and steer you. Hoping the holiday season grants you that profound reprieve from the grind which you've earned a thousand times over!

[tonithegreat]

Oh my friend! I miss climbing together so much. Elizabeth and I and sometimes Bo have been keeping the dream alive, but I’m physically just not kicking it very strongly these days. And the holiday blues have descended with a vengeance this year.

[karmasoup]

I wouldn't know what a visit from an ancestor would look like, but this is fun to imagine.

[tonithegreat]

I feel the same way. I wonder so much what my ancestors would really think about so much of what’s happening now. We definitely live in interesting times.

[tonithegreat]

Whoa, you’re a Tally person! Or a former Tally person now. I wonder if we ever met IRL? I’ve been in Tallahassee since 1996 if you count college. I see you have Florida High listed as a school- that’s where my daughters are and it’s actually where I am sitting as I type this waiting to hear their Winter concert.

[karmasoup]

We could only have met in Tallahassee if one of us had a time machine -- we missed each other by nearly a decade. I have been in MN since January of 1987. ;-) I only have FSU & FAMU on my LJ profile - are you looking at my FB profile?

[rayaso]

I enjoyed this -- it was very creative. I loved the visit from the distant grandfather.

[tonithegreat]

Thanks! I’ve been feeling that’s it’s a very Christmas past visitation kind of Holiday season.

[alexanderscttb]

I loved the way this seemed to pass from non-fiction into fiction, kind of like the nature of a reverie which would be inspired by real life. It also seemed like it really captured the spirit of a traditional winter's tale!

[halfshellvenus]

I liked this-- the tone, the visitation and the reweighing of the past and what it meant.

I hope friendships are helping to kick those blues a little. It's hard being overwhelmed. I know it too well.