I love to plan things. Long-term things, mostly. I leave the short-term things up in the air. But the long-term things that I keep in the back of my mind are like little anchors and markers of progress. This time, my long-term plans are longer than usual. But they’re still there.
So, I’ll be done with my work here on Halloween. Then… short-term adventuring.
Honor, the hometown, to pass out Halloween candy on a big porch with family.
Grand Rapids, to have good times with my lovely grandparents.
Lansing, a comfortable home-like place to sleep on couches and sew things back together, like bottoms of jeans and new curtains for friends. Listen to friends play music again, which I’ve been missing for quite a while now. Not much of that going on here! I’ve kept up the clarinetting much more here, though. The hootnanny flute-o-phone thing.
Minneapolis, with Melissa, to check the place out. Maybe I’ll live there come January. I’m not afraid of snow. Maybe I’ll find a mountain nearby to board down on weekends.
Cary, North Carolina, where the streets are clean and the opportunities are endless. That’s the way Barbara, my 78 year-old sweetheart of a suitemate, makes it sound.
Sometime, I’ll fly to Colorado with my grandma to see my Aunt Sue and her family. And for Thanksgiving, friends are gathering in Lansing from California. Can’t wait for these things.
These are short-term, happy things to look forward to. They are also real life, and real opportunities. Along the way, maybe I will find a place too lovely to leave. That will be fine, too, like a long-term plan. Find a place that is just awesome, and have a career and all of that. These places I’m visiting are also places of potential work. I’m not just loafing and floating around.
Most importantly, I want to keep learning French, how to do calligraphy, & play in an orchestra.
Phew. That’s… about it!
