Comments on: *8Signs of Re-Entry http://www.magpie-girl.com/20090625/8signs-of-re-entry/ distracted by sparkly things since 1969 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:58:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Lori-Lyn http://www.magpie-girl.com/20090625/8signs-of-re-entry/comment-page-1/#comment-29554 Lori-Lyn Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:00:40 +0000 http://www.magpie-girl.com/?p=1984#comment-29554 This is beautiful. And thought-provoking. This is beautiful. And thought-provoking.

]]> By: Susan Young http://www.magpie-girl.com/20090625/8signs-of-re-entry/comment-page-1/#comment-29541 Susan Young Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:09:53 +0000 http://www.magpie-girl.com/?p=1984#comment-29541 Oh Rachelle, makes me jealous to read this, thinking about Seattle and it's surrounds. Also nice to hear about the lighter countenances for you and the girls. I hope you gets lots of love on this trip. Oh Rachelle, makes me jealous to read this, thinking about Seattle and it’s surrounds. Also nice to hear about the lighter countenances for you and the girls. I hope you gets lots of love on this trip.

]]> By: Becky http://www.magpie-girl.com/20090625/8signs-of-re-entry/comment-page-1/#comment-29540 Becky Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:21:12 +0000 http://www.magpie-girl.com/?p=1984#comment-29540 I'm going to have to pass on *8Things this week. I don't have a childhood home that I return to, since everyone has moved to their own corner of the country. Even now, being in NC for six years, I don't feel settled into my home the way I want to be -- it doesn't sing to me... I’m going to have to pass on *8Things this week. I don’t have a childhood home that I return to, since everyone has moved to their own corner of the country. Even now, being in NC for six years, I don’t feel settled into my home the way I want to be — it doesn’t sing to me…

]]> By: Ashley Ann http://www.magpie-girl.com/20090625/8signs-of-re-entry/comment-page-1/#comment-29538 Ashley Ann Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:42:48 +0000 http://www.magpie-girl.com/?p=1984#comment-29538 Wow! Couldn't have come at a better time. As I sit in a Starbucks in Pasadena, Ca, waiting for my Dad and youngest brother to pick me up at take me to my "old" home. I sit here skyping my husband who left only minutes ago as he works in a building two blocks away...making statements like "If I don't cleave to you this weekend or if I fall into old roles, squeeze me. He told me he would tickle me until I said Uncle. Then he recanted, since him being my uncle is sort of peevy. I laughed.. I really needed this post. Thanks girly! Wow! Couldn’t have come at a better time. As I sit in a Starbucks in Pasadena, Ca, waiting for my Dad and youngest brother to pick me up at take me to my “old” home. I sit here skyping my husband who left only minutes ago as he works in a building two blocks away…making statements like “If I don’t cleave to you this weekend or if I fall into old roles, squeeze me. He told me he would tickle me until I said Uncle. Then he recanted, since him being my uncle is sort of peevy. I laughed.. I really needed this post.
Thanks girly!

]]> By: Helene Eriksen http://www.magpie-girl.com/20090625/8signs-of-re-entry/comment-page-1/#comment-29537 Helene Eriksen Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:50:54 +0000 http://www.magpie-girl.com/?p=1984#comment-29537 On Coming back to Seattle: 1. Remembering how much I like the light in this city at different times of day/year...particularly on the drive along Pacific looking over Lake Union and downtown, and the view out of my bedroom. 2. Being able to go dancing every night. 3. Walking to yoga class...knowing there are so many yoga studios that even if this one closes too the next one is equally walkable. 4. Walking into a house where I live together with people. 5.The guilty freedom of driving and getting to amazing wilds in a short time. 6. The concept of thrift stores. 7. Stepping back in to a large network of loosely connected people who can be chatty and friendly. 8. the concept of free WiFi everywhere On coming back to Goettingen: 1. Loving being in a town where I can walk anywhere. 2. Just running downstairs to go to the organic food store or cafe or pub or restaurant or park (one of each of those in less than a block). 3. The sane freedom of not needing a car to get anywhere easily. 4. The pleasant formality of being greeted in my bank or store as Frau Eriksen (instead of the cashier at the supermarket who doesn't know me at all glancing at my credit card and saying "Thanks Helene!") 5. Knowing that my friends will take time and help me even if they haven't seen me in months. 6. Affording going to the doctor (because my artists' health insurance is working). 7. Remembering with relief that when I have a gig or a workshop that the venue will take care of most of the details and pay me decently. 8. Noticing at the train station the people look slim, healthy and well dressed. On coming back to Istanbul 1. Being greeted like a long lost friend even if I haven't seen someone in a very very long time. 2. People having time and the emotional energy to constantly pause and invite you in to tea. 3. Feeling the strength and foundation that people's families provide them. 4. The pervasive uncomplicated pursuit of the art of preparing food. 5. Heartfelt generosity and hospitality on every street corner if one is willing to engage...and even if not. 6. Sipping tea on a ferry watching the sun set over the most amazing and ancient skyline the world has to offer. 7. Music all around. 8. The haunting beauty of the muezzin...providing rhythm to the day and collective energy for many. On coming back to the cabin in Montana 1. No cars or planes or trains. 2. The sound of water all around...Wise River and Boulder Creek surround us. 3. Cooking on the Monarch...with all it entails...chopping the wood, keeping it stoked, knowing how to control it's temperature and where to put what to cook it right. 4. The stars at night. 5. Being alone and primal in the forest. 6. Playing endless games around the table with family and close friends. 7. Drinking real water (Dad called it Mountain Champagne). 8. Having an inkling what self sufficiency is like. On Coming back to Seattle:
1. Remembering how much I like the light in this city at different times of day/year…particularly on the drive along Pacific looking over Lake Union and downtown, and the view out of my bedroom.
2. Being able to go dancing every night.
3. Walking to yoga class…knowing there are so many yoga studios that even if this one closes too the next one is equally walkable.
4. Walking into a house where I live together with people.
5.The guilty freedom of driving and getting to amazing wilds in a short time.
6. The concept of thrift stores.
7. Stepping back in to a large network of loosely connected people who can be chatty and friendly.
8. the concept of free WiFi everywhere

On coming back to Goettingen:
1. Loving being in a town where I can walk anywhere.
2. Just running downstairs to go to the organic food store or cafe or pub or restaurant or park (one of each of those in less than a block).
3. The sane freedom of not needing a car to get anywhere easily.
4. The pleasant formality of being greeted in my bank or store as Frau Eriksen (instead of the cashier at the supermarket who doesn’t know me at all glancing at my credit card and saying “Thanks Helene!”)
5. Knowing that my friends will take time and help me even if they haven’t seen me in months.
6. Affording going to the doctor (because my artists’ health insurance is working).
7. Remembering with relief that when I have a gig or a workshop that the venue will take care of most of the details and pay me decently.
8. Noticing at the train station the people look slim, healthy and well dressed.

On coming back to Istanbul
1. Being greeted like a long lost friend even if I haven’t seen someone in a very very long time.
2. People having time and the emotional energy to constantly pause and invite you in to tea.
3. Feeling the strength and foundation that people’s families provide them.
4. The pervasive uncomplicated pursuit of the art of preparing food.
5. Heartfelt generosity and hospitality on every street corner if one is willing to engage…and even if not.
6. Sipping tea on a ferry watching the sun set over the most amazing and ancient skyline the world has to offer.
7. Music all around.
8. The haunting beauty of the muezzin…providing rhythm to the day and collective energy for many.

On coming back to the cabin in Montana
1. No cars or planes or trains.
2. The sound of water all around…Wise River and Boulder Creek surround us.
3. Cooking on the Monarch…with all it entails…chopping the wood, keeping it stoked, knowing how to control it’s temperature and where to put what to cook it right.
4. The stars at night.
5. Being alone and primal in the forest.
6. Playing endless games around the table with family and close friends.
7. Drinking real water (Dad called it Mountain Champagne).
8. Having an inkling what self sufficiency is like.

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