It's been a few years since the daughter and I have see one another so having her jet plane down from NYC friday and spend some time with her old man has been a treat.
I especially wanted her to meet certain folks with whom I had met and became good friends with through Patti...Bob, Barbara, Margaret, Judy & Tom.
Unfortunately Barbara came down with the flaming crud and so could not
party with us on Sunday night.
I felt I needed to provide at least a modicum of entertainment for Brie and myself, so we drove out to Great Falls on her first day here just to walk around a bit, see the Potomac River doing it's little rushy thing (noisy!).
It was a fine weather day, maybe just a tad too hot and we soon discovered that we weren't the only folks looking for a little diversion on a Saturday afternoon.
There was quite a few river seekers there in fact.
Now that is the first time I've ever done that and the point was not to
save her sorry ass soul from some kind of eternal damnation but rather for the both of us to hear some fine singing performances from the Unitarian All-Souls church about a ten minute drive away.
The sermon-theme was of course Earth Day since yesterday was Earth Day.
They did not disappoint by finishing up the morning with a rousing blues piece (complete with whale sounds, some moving singing and trumpeteering from an
old blind guy).
The church is always packed. I think it's because of the moving singing by the gospel choir and this huge, huge pipe organ that can shake their stain glass windows as well as rattle and roll any kind of sleepy body on a sleepy sunday morning.
I like what they do there and I will return. The singing
sometimes transports me to that near teary-eyed place (easy to do these past months) and the sermons can be (but not always) inspiring.
We were a little early when I took this photo of Brie sitting so lonely-like in the pew. Behind her is the organ I mentioned.
The daughter and I have had a good time reconnecting these past 3 days. Yesterday and today lots and lots of rain has been drenching the Washington area and so we just decided to have a mellow indoor day today, playing with our computers, talking and taking it easy.
Tonight Brie is fixing us a nice pesto dinner replete with garlic bread and salad. We'll watch a horror flick and try not to laugh too much nor have nightmares afterwards.
I will take her to the airport really early tomorrow morning for her 6:30, 45 minute flight back to the city. She has promised to to not let so much time pass between future visits.
The next time she's in town we'll try again to party on at my friends the Bob and Barbara Smuckers. (poor cousins to the jelly people)
Barbara does like to party.
She is a bad-ass Mother Smucker.
Soon I will be heading back to the farm in western Iowa.
After all that has transpired with Patti and myself in the last 6 months (and more) I think it will really do my spirit good to return to my roots. It's been two years. Spending time on the old farm, the place of my arising, and continuing the never-ending job of fixing the old house is good for my soul.
Sitting around the campfire circle out in the yard in the evening, occasionally with some of my relatives but more often than not with only myself and hopefully Patti's Spirit..(and Kaiser the cat). It is a healthy thing for me to do and will "re-charge my batteries".
I will leave Washington on May 1st and return to DC sometime in July.
As any of you have been following this blog know, I have not been posting much here on billandpatti for the last year or so. Understandable so.
I hope to change that as I get out and about and begin again to do more
things out there in the world.
I invite any of you reading this now and who may be so inclined for the future, to check in with me here from time to time. I highly recommend that you submit your email in the form below. The notification system works good most of the time and
it serves as a good reminder to interested people that I've just posted a new entry.
Also, I reiterate my request that if anyone has any dreams of Patti, to email them to me as best you can remember. Matthew had one recently as did I, crazy and seemingly irrelevant as they may be. Still, I will take whatever I can get from Patti.. or from other people's dream creations. I miss "us" a lot.
If I can get one or two more dreams from anyone or myself I will
post them here for all to read. This blog remains about both Patti and myself and even though I seem not to be able to communicate with her in the Spirit World, I intend on keeping this little running commentary about the both of us.
trust & love.. trust and love. (and staying connected to real friends and family) That's the stuff that will get us through anything that Life may test us with.
Keep that in mind the next time the shit hits your own fan.. because it most certainly will.
Bill (& Patti)
