Somewhere Strange and New

I believe an update is in order. I don’t normally like to write blogs that simply relay the events of my life. Usually I’d rather use clever photos and carefully crafted vague words to give life to the things I’m feeling or to hintingly illustrate events in such a way that necessitates imagination on the part of the reader. I like whispering pieces of my story and leaving you to fill in the parts you couldn’t quite hear.  I like to believe in the lie of my own mystery. Normally, that is. However, as I’ve been absent for so long, and there’s much too much to catch up on for obscurity, I’ll be direct.

The biggest recent change in life is that I now have a girlfriend. She’s beautiful and fun and lovely and strong and compassionate and I could make this run-on last for pages and her name is Sarah and this is a picture of us recently.

Two weeks ago we traveled together for the first time. We turned a three-day weekend into five and flew to Mexico. Sarah studied abroad in Guanajuato, and was elated to return a place of such significance in her life. We spent our days winding through vibrant alleyways, and over rough and ancient cobblestone. The brilliant patchwork of the brightly colored homes formed something like a Kandinsky canvas on the hillsides, and the smells of food freshly prepared on the streets sizzled in our noses. We heard the sounds of Finnish voices singing in Mexico about love in English, and watched from a windy hillside a grim and fantastical performance elevated on stilts telling the story of a fisherman lost at sea, and the crowd through and in which they performed was a sea of flesh. We spent playful afternoon hours with young girls whose greatest desire was to be spun above our heads and to ride on our shoulders and to giggle uncontrollably and to force us to sing the Titanic song. And we ate, oh how we ate. With grease streaming over fingers and satisfied smiles we ate. 

And then we returned, to school and to family and to responsibilities...

and to dreams of absconding once more.