In just 4 more weeks I will load my stylin' 1999 Toyota and head for San Francisco! My weeks in Madison have been a beautiful window into love, friendship, kindness, and the gift of years spent in one place, investing heart and energy into relationships.
I will miss my friends and be-loveds in Madison. I will miss this oddball, compassionate, often silly, regularly offended city where justice and knowledge are valued treasures. The Saturday farmer's market. Concerts on the capitol square every week during the summer. Walks along the lakes. Hanging out on the UW Madison Terrace. This is a good place for kids to grow up. They learn to value diversity and to care about people who live "without". It's a great place to be a grown up...because you meet people who, somewhere along the line, learned those things, too.
I've planned 4 days in New York, seeing my shining star Ruthie and her Michael. Get to hear Ruth sing in a revue. Get to hang out with Michael before he leaves for a l-o-n-g contract with the 25th anniversary tour of Phantom of the Opera. Good food. Tickets to something grand in whatever theatre they pick. Fun. Love. Just being with my best beloveds.
Then, back to Madison.
I'm selling my furniture (if you're interested, let me know....it's good quality, soft contemporary. What I don't sell to friends will go to Another Home (consignment shop in Middleton) where they take a big chunk for their efforts.
Then, stuffing the car full of whatever...mailing some books ahead...looking this weekend at a used roof rack so I can install a basket and take a few more things.
A one-woman cross-country road trip sounds like an adventure on paper, but ask me about mid-Nebraska....I ought to be in a dissociative fugue by then. Plan to arrive in SF about 8-10 days later, ready to launch this next year. Ready to grow and learn every day. Ready to learn more about love than I can imagine! What a privilege to live my dream. God is good!
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