a section of an Andrew Wyeth painting

 

free for a moment

Cool cloudy skies have made it easy to sleep the past few days, but today that trend started to change. Stale warm air inside my house brought my sleep to a premature end. With the return of the sun, my house starts to heat up as I sleep and I hope that isn't a sample of what is to come for the rest of the summer.

A few people that I know are ending their school careers now and I can remember when I walked away from all of that years ago. I was free or so I thought at the time. Never again would I have to try and figure out what a professor wanted to hear from me. Never again would I have to play the academic game. I was free to be a part of the world. I was now ready to enter the work force as a highly trained individual. Yeah. Whatever. In reality I had no idea what I wanted to do next with my life. Spending five years inhaling fumes from oil paint, spending two to three nights a week in bars and filling little blue books with words doesn't exactly translate into a career.

Thankfully six years later I seem to have everything in place or at the very least I make enough money to live comfortably for my standards.

I did some research on my next big trip of the year. Suddenly Nova Scotia sounded like a good destination. Then I found out that from Milwaukee I would either have to fly to Toronto or Boston first and then from there to Halifax. It would be less expensive to fly to Ireland from Milwaukee than it is to Halifax. I don't have a passport so Ireland will have to wait until later this year or maybe even next year. Maybe I am looking in the wrong place.

 
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