Are we falling or flying …

I have a love hate relationship with travel - which mostly evolved after I became the single owner of two dogs, and definitely hasn’t improved now that I have three.

I also am not good with really early morning travel but tomorrow morning I need to be at Seatac at 6am to catch a flight to the bay area to meet up with my friend Leslie (also fondly known as LH) who will pick me up at SJC, then we drive 2 1/2 hours to a remote cabin on a lake and spend the next 36 hours chilling out. 

I’ve already written about theory vetted from years of experience - that people in general mainly hire themselves, or close variations thereof.

LH and I used to work together but despite the location and other challenges have remained very connected, and sometimes joke she is a younger version of me - despite the fact I was not raised JW; or in “the federal republic of Northern California;” and she majored in Renaissance lit at UC Berkeley, while I majored in 20th century/modern lit at UIowa.

It’s been many years since Leslie was JW; and in fact, neither one of us is at all religious.  We discovered pretty quickly despite there being many other major life differences, we’re very similar people and think about and view life in very complimentary ways.

It’s not a far reach (particularly after a quick mental survey/tally) to extrapolate not only do people in general mainly hire themselves, or close variations thereof; most of us (including myself) utilize a very similar methodology when bonding with those who become our friends.

I’ll be off the grid until Sunday night but will post pictures of this weekend when I get back. 

Cheers (and - this weekend, please make mine a double…).

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” - Anais Nin