Tuesday, August 02, 2011

returning home

Leaving Chicago. During morning rush hour.

Does anyone ever just sit there and take in the world? Or are we all hell bent on reading the latest text, twitter or email the minute it gets posted?


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We are engaged in our own bubble. I say this as I put those pods in my own ears and spend the next three hours listening to songs that have nothing to do with where I am and where I’m going.


So now I am home. Hi, Wisconsin.

In the late afternoon, I meet my good good friend (and for a fleeting second, her daughter) at a new place in town (or at least new for me). I can absorbe the joy of living in a small(er) town. The décor is homey.


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They still take the time to decorate the lattes.


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And the news crew is on the premises, collecting opinions as to whether we should have a study done on whether to make a one way street into a two way street.


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I think about my two great friends from student law school days. We all have daughters. Who are in many ways so different. Yet, they, all four of them, have this in common – a passion for superb, fresh and honest food.

Odd, in a sweet, sweet sort of way.

2 comments:

  1. wish I could have joined you all! yes, it's true about daughters and food.

    too funny - my password is "mistort"!

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  2. I now realize that we forgot to raise our lattes (or in my case, iced coffee) in honor of the fact that we met 30 years ago, when your oldest was more or less 3 weeks old and in a front pack while we registered for law school! I can't fathom how 30 years flew by so fast. But here's to the next thirty.

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