{"id":196,"date":"2007-07-26T00:36:53","date_gmt":"2007-07-26T08:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=196"},"modified":"2008-05-01T13:56:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T21:56:00","slug":"afloat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=196","title":{"rendered":"Afloat"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"listen\"…listen<\/font><\/a>
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I’m back from a few days of work and play in Los Angeles. It was a wonderful trip filled with terrific friends and experiences, but still I was relieved to be home on the Salish Sea, the historical common name for the watery, geologically gem-laden environment spanning the archipelago that drizzles itself across upper U.S. and lower B.C. I’m beginning to wonder if any stray parts of me might have lived here in a previous existence (what was I? human? bald eagle? sea slug?). From the day I moved here, it has felt oddly as though this has been home to me for many years. As close to Los Angeles as I had become in 24 action-packed years, not a pang held my heart for even a moment upon my return to the city. And yet each time my ferry or light plane lands on San Juan Island, that pang arrives, in the form of joy and comfort.<\/p>\n

Two days before I left for California I had ferried to and from British Columbia’s Salt Spring Island, a neighbor to the northwest just across the border and the reason I ended up living on San Juan Island (short story to follow sometime). The day was cool and foggy and presented a fresh planet of visuals to me as I crossed from one side of the boundary waters to the other. Obscured by a haunting marine layer and coyly lit by flecks of sunlight, the islands and the sea were simultaneously new and familiar, just like my life here. Staring out across a random border, I wondered whether this lone sailor might have had similar thoughts, as the vessel passed effortlessly between two worlds.48 link payday loan<\/a>fast loan cash dollar 5 000<\/a>no loan payday fax 500<\/a>a during loan bankruptcy personal a<\/a>cash indianapolis loan advance<\/a>9 loan payday advance military<\/a>advanced payday america loan<\/a>ford with after car loans bankruptcy<\/a>loan personal form agreement free<\/a>loan agreement free sample<\/a><\/font>ag loan<\/a>loan a shark<\/a>free in georgia payday loan 1st<\/a>loan cash advance wyoming<\/a>remortgage http loan advice home<\/a>student aes loan and<\/a>loans aer<\/a>calculator loan albuquerque<\/a>homeloan aba<\/a>loan aig student<\/a><\/font>aait mp3 vedan<\/a>aari mp3 aari<\/a>mp3 aaja aaja<\/a>mare mp3 aaje gher<\/a>mp3 garba aarkee<\/a>viral aaro mp3 meeti<\/a>mp3 aaka lelo<\/a>benediction aaronic mp3<\/a> Map<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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