Boston, take 1!
May. 21st, 2012 02:23 pmHad a really lovely weekend in Boston, the vast majority with J-and-company as sort-of-semi-scheduled, but also with a detour to Cambridge to see K/B/D. The weekend involved a large amount of food, lots of sunshine, and lots of wonderful people (not just J and K/B/D -- all of J's friends are really lovely). Excellent.
Boston decided to be extremely beautiful and sunny and bright, as if it's trying, like J, to get me to move back. I was pleased to find that I still have deeply buried memories of the T -- there were a couple of times where I found myself thinking things like, "Okay, I am pretty sure that going up this flight of stairs is not going to get me where I want to go, even though it looks like the obvious choice," and I was right.
It was interesting, though: in all my previous visits to Boston, I've thought of it as coming back home. This trip -- both Boston and I have moved on. I'll always love it, but it's not a place I belong to anymore.
Though after five years away from Boston... will be back in one month! With D and E, and we'll have to take E to the Public Gardens so she can see what the pictures in Make Way for Ducklings look like in real life...
Boston decided to be extremely beautiful and sunny and bright, as if it's trying, like J, to get me to move back. I was pleased to find that I still have deeply buried memories of the T -- there were a couple of times where I found myself thinking things like, "Okay, I am pretty sure that going up this flight of stairs is not going to get me where I want to go, even though it looks like the obvious choice," and I was right.
It was interesting, though: in all my previous visits to Boston, I've thought of it as coming back home. This trip -- both Boston and I have moved on. I'll always love it, but it's not a place I belong to anymore.
Though after five years away from Boston... will be back in one month! With D and E, and we'll have to take E to the Public Gardens so she can see what the pictures in Make Way for Ducklings look like in real life...