Radio Silence

Yes, I've fallen into a period of radio silence... I like solitude a lot and I go through spells of wanting to keep to myself as much as possible. I turn off the phone. I don't answer email. I don't make calls.

Sometimes it's necessary. Sometimes I feel like I've allowed myself to get too stretched in directions and in ways I'd rather not be stretched.

I'm also going through a period of discovery; a time of wondering about most things. Perhaps it's got something to do with mid-life. Perhaps it's got something to do with having children that need me less and less. Whatever it is, I'm giving in to it. Or perhaps I'm throwing myself into it.

I'm learning French. It's an incredibly difficult language, and I'm wishing I were only a year or two old so that learning it would come a bit more naturally. After a lifetime (well, let's optimistically call it a "half-a-lifetime!) of building a pretty good vocabulary, I'm back at the beginning — learning nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, learning feminine vs. masculine nouns, le vs. la, vous vs. tu... Forever, I have wondered why vis a vis is pronounced veez-ah-vee and not veez-ah-veez. Now, I understand. So, if i learn nothing else, I've at least learned that.

I leave for Paris in another week. I'll only be staying a week this time, but I'm scheduled to go back again in November — in time to celebrate my 51st birthday. There is something very special about the city that I can't explain with words. Maybe that's why I took so many pictures while I was there last November.

I want very much to move there. Very much.

Oh, and I think I'm going to go to San Francisco before the end of July, too! The world keep spinning and I've got to try to keep up!

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