red polka-dots

Many trails have been hiked but I have yet to encounter the elusive bear, many shifts have been worked and I am settling amongst my fellow workers, new acquaintances have been made and connections made based on same ideologies. Maybe my favorite connection so far is a girl who likes playing board-games and has agreed to start a book-club with me. I have found a wonderful hiking partner who will go to the woods with her beloved dog at the drop of a word. She is literally hours of enjoyment and a purer heart I have yet to find. Music festivals are an option this summer and I have plans to attend one that Johnny Winter and Dr. John are playing at. Free days from work are mostly taken up by extensive board game marathons or hiking the many mountains and trails. There is still a tinge of longing; a tinge of "oh yeah, I remember that painfully". This will always exist and I am happy for it for it brings a much needed sobering light. My abode that I have found in my new camper is bringing much shallow happiness. I can just sit in it and grin from ear to ear realizing the situation I am living in. I still have many steps to take as far as fixing it up goes, but I know they will be accomplished in time. Right now I am reading Karl Marx; The Communist Manifesto, and The Basil and Josephine Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Time keeps on coming at me as I seem to fly through it and I apply my timeless skill of making the most of life and being content with little. Peace- Nat