Homecoming

I Everyone picked me up from the airport and it was pretty magic. Zak managed to delay his flight so I got a couple of days with him,  all happening, and some by ourselves talking time as well. Especially after this year with him, I really needed to like hold on.

I am up to actually making plans on a day with my dad. That's a thing.

I have been loving so much all these tiny familiar things. Where my bedroom is, 24 hour western style hot water. Food I know what's in it. I actually like American cuisine, I'm gonna say it. And the leaves of the Christmas tree were still moist and it's raining for winter in North Carolina. I can't describe it, I just know where everything is and how to do things. There's nothing to be figured out and I know where I'm going to sleep tomorrow.

There's just a thousand tiny familiar things and I think I'm a bit ready to know what's going to happen.

Last day in chile was a bit magic. We went to Neruda's house which was a bit of an art home, designed by an architect friend of his with beautiful inside and outside connectivity. It was a bit of an art collector's house as well, with his passion for well selected objects collected over the years. And it was a bit of an artist's house where he lived with his lover and friends, entertaining passionately.

I learned a lot about him too. Like he had a whole political career with the Allende government, so when he died people supporting the dictatorship vandalized his house. His wife, hard as nails (there's a Diego Rivera of her in the house) did his wake in the wrecked house for all the world to see. People came out in masses to carry his body and it was described as the first mass demonstration against the regime.

I bought a bilingual copy of the captains song.

It's a few days after I started writing this. I went up to VA to see Toney and Melinda the day after Zak left. It was a lovely day but big. Then I had a mom/Michael split yesterday and a Harmony /mom split today. We've got Harmony's house half clean. Some steps taken to figure out mom's Medicare stuff. I did some crap paperwork that's important. Micheal made me a lovely meal and we watched ballet docos.  Been on a couple walks. Caught a buffalo in pokémon. Pretty tired and maybe getting sick. The weather has been positively spring like, daffodils are coming up everywhere.