Full Circle
Two of us sending postcards…writing letters…on my wall…we’re on our way home…we’re going home… ~ The Beatles
Joe has become so adept at driving through the long stretch of monotonous highway in Western Kansas that he can change his clothes while driving! When we left Bob and Rose in Breckenridge, it had just started snowing, and now we are peeling off layers and feeling the culture shock of going from majestic mountain views of up to 12,000 feet of elevation to the wide open flatland of Kansas. The most interesting thing we’ve seen in the last hour is several acres of sunflowers dead on their stalks with their heads bowed down.
I reach for my notebook to write as Joe pops a CD in the stereo…Beatle music from the movie “I Am Sam.” What we hear couldn’t be more perfect if we planned it. You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead…We’re on our way home…We’re on our way home…We’re going home.
Post Notes: WVTF, our regional public radio aired my essay yesterday, Homegrown, which was taken from my book Muses Like Moonlight. I plan to post the essay later in the week. To hear me reading it go to http://www.wvtf.org/news.htm and click on October 7.
The photo above is of our camper safely landed in front of my son Josh’s pottery studio in Asheville, North Carolina.
October 8th, 2005 10:56 am
Hey there! Michele sent me!! I hope you have a safe trip home!! TTYL
October 8th, 2005 1:42 pm
I always loved that Beatle song and still do. I will have that song in my head all day.
It must be weird coming from snow to heat.
How do you pack for this??
October 8th, 2005 3:35 pm
hi, michele sent me. take care going home!
October 8th, 2005 4:41 pm
Great to hear your voice. You do Floyd proud.
October 8th, 2005 6:05 pm
Hey Colleen. Just wanted to drop you a quick note to let you know we’re all thinking of you. May you be home soon.
And I get to look forward to some great listening after tuck-in…cool!
October 8th, 2005 8:52 pm
Why did I think you were already back home? Well, have a safe rest of the trip.
October 8th, 2005 9:46 pm
Have a safe journey home.
October 9th, 2005 12:17 am
Just checking in. We’re leaving for a road trip of our own in the morning. I’ll listen to your link from someplace exotic. OK, that’s a lie cause I’m not going anyplace exotic, but it will be someplace else.
Congrats!
October 9th, 2005 3:22 am
Safe travels! (Now that song is playing in my head, too — mentally whistling….)
Amazing sunflower image. It brought to mind (and contrasted with) a very vivid sunflower scene in the movie Vincent and Theo. Poignant, all those heads bowed.
Many houses in our Dorchester neighborhood had sunflowers in their yards. This time of year their heads had plastic bags tied around them, for collecting the seeds.
October 9th, 2005 6:58 am
Hello Colleen!
First of all, I like so much your Blog. Second, now I have a Blog, “Leaves of Grass” and I would like if you make me a visit. Regards, from Sonia, Brazil