I am back in Boston, can you tell? originally uploaded by hambox

I am facing my last 24 hours here on the east coast. I am leaving one day early, as my family is returning to work tomorrow and it is time for me to Get the Hell Out of Here. Already my brother-in-law has sequestered himself with his mysterious Reports that he must create before starting his new term as a first- and second- grade teacher. And my sister is trying to bulk up her immune system as she prepares to face a roomful of babies starting tomorrow. Smart babies at Harvard!

OMG I’m having so much fun. I have so much to tell you. But at this moment I am very much enjoying having minimal access to the internet, to television, to photo opps — to those perpetual electronic media/content streams that enter and exit my overtaxed brain.

Instead, the ebb and flow has been of good food, drink, and conversation, lots of reading and listening and walking and observing. I have discovered that life is Real — even when it is not recorded by blog nor photo. Did you know that?