I'll tell you a half-dozen things that happened to me in Indiana when I went that far west to teach. You tell me if it was worth it. I lived in the country with my dog— part of the bargain of coming. And there was a pond with fish from, I think, China. I felt them sometimes against my feet. Also, they crept out of the pond, along its edges, to eat the grass. I'm not lying. And I saw coyotes, two of them, at dawn, running over the seemingly unenclosed fields. And once a deer, but a buck, thick-necked, leaped into the road just-oh, I mean just, in front of my car— and we both made it home safe. And once the blacksmith came to care for the four horses, or the three horses that belonged to the owner of the house, and I bargained with him, if I could catch the fourth, he, too, would have hooves trimmed for the Indiana winter, and apples did it, and a rope over the neck did it, so I won something wonderful; and there was, one morning, an owl flying, oh pale angel, into the hay loft o...
I'm ready. Let's get out of this mess. I always promised myself that when the time was right, I'd do travel nursing in warm climes. The time may soon be right.
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ReplyDeleteDe-Nile, for me, would be to order anything alcoholic at my corner of the bar..... In fact, I wouldn't sit at the bar (icky smoker there). I'd order a virgin marguerita or a non-alcoholic beer and head out to the white sand!
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