Thinking a lot about the road less traveled by, today. A heart-date. One of those that only those who lived it- shared it. Today I sat in the crisp Fall air and enjoyed a cup of Orange Spice Tea and a Smoke and remembered. You once called me your soul-mate. I knew you were mine.
I miss you.
Simon and Garfunkel were right.
Bookends
Time it was
And what a time it was, it was
A time of innocence
A time of confidences
Long ago it must be
I have a photograph
Preserve your memories
They're all that's left you.
We choose our partner. We do not choose our soul-mate. We have always been together for centuries and centuries in one form or another, and we will be again...and again.
Always.
Brought home a fat orange globe of a pumpkin yesterday and sat it on the patio amidst the yellowing vines, mums and fallen leaves. Sitting out with tea and smelling the first of the wood-smoke on the air as the temperatures start to dip.
Ribs in BBQ sauce with apple-butter and honey simmering in the oven in an iron skillet.
Fall.
Also finished Dave Barry's new book
Best State Ever: A Florida Man Defends His Homeland
as my TBR Pile from Summer transitions into the Still-More-To-Be-Read Pile of Fall and Winter.
Hands down the funniest book I have sat down with for a while. Starting with a brief history of the State (given a LOT of artistic license) then answering the burning question of why people actually decided to settle there. Why Miami has (he swears he isn't making this up) the "hottest women" in the Country. And describes a supermarket trip with a friend from Out of State
"Is it always like this" he asked me.
"Pretty much."
"If I lived here," he said. "I would go to the supermarket constantly. I would buy my groceries one grape at a time."
He also takes us to all the Florida Hot-Spots
The Skunk-Ape Center
Weeki Watchee
Spongeorama
Casadaga
The Villages
Gatorland
Lock and Load
LIV
Key West
Giving a summary of each as only Dave Barry could.
If you are a Barry Fan, love Florida, live in Florida, plan to visit Florida or just wonder
"What the HELL is wrong with those people, anyway???"
This is the book for you.
Planning to rejoin "A Year in The World" Virtual Travels on November 1st with Istanbul, Turkey.
The Itinerary looks like this
Like "The Pirate's Code"
they be mostly guidelines...
Finding out what the hell a Turkish Gulet actually is.
See Istanbul
Watch the Mevlevi Sufi Dancers and "Belly-Dancing"
Learn more about Rumi and reading some of his poetry/writings
Try Turkish Delight
Learn to make Turkish Coffee and an Ibrik
Buy a Turkish Demitasse
See the Bosphorus Strait
Experience the Herbed Baths and Dead Sea and Sulfer Mud Masques
Learn a few words in Turkish
See a Turkish Marketplace (...sorry Ms.Mayes...I do not share your rug enthusiasm...if you do apparently this is the place to go, though...
Make Mezes
Check out Pashmina and Hijabs
Check out Rose Mountain and Termessos
Read the myth of Pegasus and Bellerophone
See the Lycian Coast
Read the Myth of the Chimaera
See the Chimaera Fires on the Mountainside
Fix a Typical Turkish Dinner
See Kayakoy (ghost town)
Discover Topkapi
See the Emerald Green waters of Turkey
And finish most, or all of this in 30 days.
For a destination that (like Portugal) I admittedly thought about skipping over...it sounds like it might actually be a great adventure!
So it is off to Turkey (Virtually) in November.
With the upcoming election and Thanksgiving...how appropriate :)
More anon...
