Comments on: On the Road

By: lilalia

lilalia — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:13:23 +0000

Do share with us your musings on the road. Hope you have a good time with your travel companions and all the wonderful buffets along the way.

By: musingsfromthesofa

musingsfromthesofa — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:47:05 +0000

Have a wonderful trip!

By: openpalm

openpalm — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:31:12 +0000

hmmmm…how is it that you have a photo of the airport departures sign on the morning BEFORE you go? does this bespeak planning ahead?

the georgia okeefe museum in santa fe is great. And the FOOD! i can taste the blue tortilla enchiladas. yum. If you drive one day up to Taos you’ll go over the gorge, which is glorious…and can go to the taos reservation (in town…very cool) I can’t remember the name, but there’s a catholic chuch (very old) between santa fe and taos that has holy dirt in a hole that fills up every time some is taken out…healing dirt, for bodies, hearts or souls that hurt.

I heard a snippet on NPR this morning (?) Joseph Conrad (?) talked about the necessity of setting sail when in his “days of November”…
i think we all have them. Gray, cloudy, with only Winter in the future, and spring far far away. Setting sail, seeing new stuff, feeling fresh. I always feel my right size in the desert…small, not hemmed in. Open. New Mexico was a very good pick.

xoxox

By: diamondsandrust

diamondsandrust — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:50:08 +0000

Do hope you are having a wonderful time.
Would love to see that part of the US. Dream of doing some painting of the desert and living in one of those lovely stone ? clay houses.

By: Di

Di — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:15:42 +0000

I do this silly “Monday Meandering” thing on my blog. And it brought me to you.

Reminds me that I need to get a pedicure before WE leave for Spring Break next week! Have a wonderful time.

By: sandi

sandi — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:28:37 +0000

I can only DREAM of flip flops…and glorious red toenails, too!

By: charlotteotter

charlotteotter — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:27:38 +0000

Have a fab break. Lovin’ the toenails.

We’ve had a white Easter in Germany, so no flipflops for us yet.

By: bookfraud

bookfraud — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:51:11 +0000

more pics. love the toenails. would love to know the name of your pedicurist. for my wife, of course.

By: Emily Barton

Emily Barton — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:09:11 +0000

Hope you have a great trip. I LOVE Santa Fe and all its surrounding areas.

By: exuberantlady

exuberantlady — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 03:47:48 +0000

Have a wonderful journey, Lily! It will be good to read your road observations and how ‘getting away’ inflects your thinking about change.

Death Comes for the Archbishop really gets the southwest right. It gets so many things right…and is so beautifully crafted. I treasure it!

Safe travel!

By: bloglily

bloglily — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:36:04 +0000

Thanks litlove — We will have fun I’m sure. There’s something about that open road….

Marie, Didn’t she say that when she sent a daughter on an ill-advised and poorly chaperoned trip to Bath? It’s fabulous advice, even so.

Mary — What a good idea! I’d love to lie around and imagine the perfect life. I don’t see why I can’t do that while I’m staring out the window, on the way to somewhere else.

Bookfraud, My thought exactly. Life is better when you get to write about it. I know that’s weird, but it’s absolutely true. My ideal life is one where I get to write all the time — about everything that enters my head, the more ridiculous and trivial the better. Oh, wait a minute. That’s my blog. Except I don’t get to write in it all the time. Anyway, I’m at the airport at this moment (our flight to Tucson is an hour and a half late) and I just asked Jack whether he minds that I’m on my computer writing in my blog and not talking to him about his hopes and dreams or playing magnetic travel chess and his response was, “I don’t care. It doesn’t really matter.” Obviously he’s way, way beyond me.

Thank you Emma. Tucson is an hour and a half longer of a trip than we thought, our plane being late. But you know what? It’s great being in an airport and not being in a hurry. I haven’t had that experience in a really, really long time.

By: litlove

litlove — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:43:37 +0000

Have a wonderful trip, BL. There’s nothing like being out of the routine to see one’s life more clearly. Oh and to have lots of fun, too.

By: mariegauthier

mariegauthier — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:34:39 +0000

Ah, road food, buffet breakfasts, White Sands & Gila Cliffs! Sounds like heaven…. “Do not miss the opportunity of enjoying yourself as much as possible,” as Mrs. Bennet might advise.

By: marymom

marymom — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:28:20 +0000

So interesting– before I read this, I was contemplating the idea of taking my kids on a road trip to see the Grand Canyon and the Navajo, Hopi and Zuni reservations. I travelled around that area with a friend before I had a family. There a great many holy places, and wonderful vantage points for contemplating life. About ten years ago, I want through a time of extraordinary upheaval and change, BL. I had the help of a wonderfully wise woman therapist. The first step– which you can, in fact, repeat over and over again, is to imagine what your life would be if it were absolutely perfect. The perfect home, job, lover/spouse–write it down. Imagine it in detail. Close your eyes and day dream about it. Somehow, it begins to crop up, like the first flowers of spring. I was so skeptical, but I tried it. First, the spouse showed up– then, after I wrote down everything I wanted in a job, the notice for it showed up in the mail. I don’t know if the exercise simply helps you to recognize what you need when it shows up, or whether there is a more cosmic process involved, but it worked for me. I am living the life that looked impossible to attain, to the person I was 11 years ago. So, more than a decade on, I am trying to repeat the exercise, and re-imagine life now that my child-bearing years are behind me. I am so grateful that I do not have the burdens of poverty, violence and ignorance so many women are forced to carry. Have a wonderful time, Lily. If you have a chance to visit a kiva, tell the ancestors what you need . . .

By: bookfraud

bookfraud — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:19:50 +0000

sounds like a blast. are you going to blog your vacation as you spend it, taking up your free time chronicling your precious days of freedom with the family?

nah.