New Life

Situations don't seem to vary for me even though I find myself living in some "distant world" I still find lessons and experience to be quite the same. Maybe I need to move to India or something exotic. In a lot of ways I am jealous of Ashley who now feels the freedom to be a globetrotter. I know the value of experience of varied ways of life and maybe I am missing the opportunity that I should be enjoying. Well there is no sense on dwelling on the 'what if's', but it is nice to wonder. While I do long for different experiences that ones I am encountering are ones hat I know I like. I got to go to Vancouver for a weekend and wandered around. I acted like a homeless man and sat on street corners and watched the boot heels shine. I saw the ones with the big wigs that make my economic world turn around, I saw the ones that are pushing culture and the arts ahead until it trickles down to me and I pledge allegiance to some artist, I saw the ones that have no ambition and just want to slip into obscurity, I saw the ones that are dazzled by there own flashiness so much that they can't see past there own glare, and I enjoyed some of those things only big cities can contribute; art gallery's, chess in the park, aquarium's, and fine food. This past weekend I got to experience the thing that delivers the most of this superficial happiness to me; music. I traveled to the land where salmon's have arms and watched people pluck, hit, and vocalize. It was a wonderful long weekend full of hippies from Montreal, people from far-away lands playing peculiar instruments and of course a couple of personal favorites that brought tears to my eyes. While I am still left with the annoying feeling that I have been here before I know I enjoy them so I keep on searching for the things I know. Thanks for reading- Nat