WomanOnHerBike: December 2018

Monday, December 31, 2018

Here’s to more of days like these

Tuesday, December 25, 2018

Christmas dinner in Minneapolis

Minnehaha Falls on Christmas Day

Christmas morning in Minneapolis

Monday, December 24, 2018

SEA to MSP via the Enchantments

Last minute trip to Minneapolis for Christmas dinner with my kids. Honestly, I still feel as if my brain is still floating above the Pacific somewhere, so the jet lag isn't a problem. But I'm pretty sure we just flew over Mt Stewart and I think I pinpointed Prussik Peak sticking up through the clouds. It's been a lovely sunny partly cloudy Christmas Eve day in Seattle. However, rather than sleep off the jet lag just listening to Christmas jazz on KNKX, I'm off to play with the pet kitties in their new Minneapolis digs.

Sunday, December 23, 2018

Avocado toast and chai at Sea Tac baggage claim

Avocado toast and traveler's chai takeout from Floret in Sea Tac's departures hall.
Apropos for my life far from my first home, yet not odd in the least. It's grim, gray, cold and raining here, the opposite side of the coin to the other place on the other side of the world that I still also think of as home.
Can I have two homes? Of course I can. Like that lovely sentimental song: "Feels like Home to me." I'm an immigrant and I live nuance. Emotions, like relationships, are often ambivalent. It is possible to hold two competing ideas at the same time.
The airport on the Sunday before Christmas is busy and crowded, with excitement in the air among all the outbound travelers, yet I'm coming home. I'm heading out, not in.

And that's absolutely fine with me. Feels like home to me.