Prologue
For the past few weeks, following the end of my summer job at Lily Films, I began moving my mother out of our house in Berkeley. After finishing her Masters in Social Work last May, my mother was hired for a position near my grandma in Connecticut. At first I was heartbroken about clearing out the room I've lived in since day one, but it wasn’t as painful as I thought it would be. I feel like I am stepping out into something completely new and there is no going back to childhood. It’s scary but very invigorating, too. We flew to New York last Monday night with my tranquillized dog crated beneath us in the belly of the plane. She had never been outside of Northern California in her life (of two years). She is doing very well in her new environment so far. I hope I can adjust as seamlessly to Scotland. My mom, Alicia, and I are staying with my dear beloved grandmama in New Canaan, Connecticut where I lived in second grade for a year when my parents were first separated. Many of my uncles, aunts and cousins(I have 30, ranging in age from 4 to 40) live nearby. I went into Manhattan two days ago to see my Aunt Susan and my cousin Tommy. Tommy and I are incredibly close even though I am six years older than he. We had oodles of fun when he came to visit me this past summer gallivanting around San Francisco and drinking smoothies. I took the train up to Yale yesterday to visit a friend from high school who stayed there over the summer working on the Yale Sustainable Food Project. The university’s program to bring organic food to campus was designed by Alice Waters, owner of a famous organic restaurant in Berkeley. He prepared a meal for me straight from the garden and it sparked my already heaping excitement to be at Findhorn. My flight leaves JFK on Thursday night and I will arrive in Aberdeen on Friday. I can’t wait to meet everyone and see Scotland for the first time.
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me in my old room
andy, tommy & i at the best A's game of the summer
Eliza in the Big Apple
my cousin abby and i at our grandma's house in connecticut
Gordon & I at Yale
Posted by: Jonna Carter on Aug 29, 05 | 3:01 am
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