stranger than fiction

Victoria, BC
This week I have found myself reminiscing on my trip to Europe more than I have to date. That may be partly due to the resemblance I thought I saw between some of the architecture here and what I experienced this summer in Europe, or maybe it’s the feeling I get when I am visiting somewhere for the first time. The excitement of finding a privately owned coffee shop that not only sells coffee but an atmosphere worth supporting, and a place to go to get space. I have found myself offering stories from my trip to Europe, when up until now I’ve hardly commented on it at all. Perhaps this is my way of letting those memories; the things I saw, touched, tasted and smelled, become a part of how I now see life? I don’t know what it is, but I’m glad to have been there and glad to be here now.
I watched a movie tonight that I highly recommend… “stranger than fiction”. (My only comment related to the movie: not your average Will Ferrell flick!) It made me want to buy a pad of yellow legal paper and a wooden pencil with a brand new pink eraser on the top, and find a park bench and sit down and just write and write and then write some more. I often wish I’d write more about the things I’m seeing, the people who are shaping me (for better or for worse), and what I’m learning. I guess maybe that’s what a blog is for, but I find something is lost when I type it on a computer and post it for others to read, as if I automatically censor what I am writing. I guess what I’m saying is that I want to write more.

I also want to stop coughing. Maybe trying to diagnose myself by looking up various different illness on Wikipedia is not the best way of going about finding out what’s going on with this dumb cough of mine… but I figured it was worth a shot. I doubt I have pneumonia, but my symptoms sound strikingly similar.

And in conclusion… if you have never had the privilege of visiting Victoria… make it happen!