Okay, Del, what would you like to fight about?? As I recall there is exactly one thing I am aware of that we do not agree on, and now I forget what it is!!! Do you remember?? I thought we might argue about fireplaces, but you said you would build one in a house even though it's not very efficient or ecologically sound, so I cannot fault you on that.
You know, I am not really very good at fighting. I will not say I am sorry unless I really believe I was wrong. Peace for the sake of calm and quiet is not the most important thing in the world to me. My husband has on occasion called me his little rabble rouser, and says that my biggest fault is that I do not take direction well!! Um, let's see--we need to disagree about something, or it will just be some sort of lovefest around here.
There is a pretty big assortment of concerts out here in the fall. I really want to go to the Rolling Stones, but cannot interest anyone in my family in coming with me. I thought I definitely did not want to see Fleetwood Mac again after that weak video from their new album, but I would sure love to hear all those songs live once more, even if Stevie Nix is not dancing all over the stage. And the Summer of Love celebration sounds wonderful. These decisions seem like no big deal, really, but tickets are so expensive that a day of music ends up costing $200 for a small family like mine.
San Franciscans are pretty sturdy pioneer folk generation after generation, mostly coming here by choice, looking for a grand adventure washed by tolerance and almost total freedom. Existing in several dimensions, up and down hills and across the water, impervious to small questions like those of religious and sexual identity, oriented by fog with the moon glowing through and used to the earth shifting at regular intervals, we sustain ourselves with the world's best sourdough bread, ground ourselves by walking barefoot on beach sand in winter, and realize more than most populations do from our experience of the very earth moving under us that all security is false, anyway. So the answer to your question is that I have come to accept earthquakes, and taught myself to really relax and enjoy them when they are happening. But I am definitely looking for a place which does not have them when I move again! |
