La maison.Amilcar neighborhood, a cote de Sidi Bou Said
The medina connects centuries of trade,food sharing, handicrafts,
well water drawing, community baths and family living
to modern commercial downtown Tunis.
(from note to friend abroad):
context: i just googled you to find your website, then navigated to the barn stormin brothers' blog...
and I am filled with memory
overwhelmed to tears in fact
all the lovely souls in the dance made in a country extravaganza
you
the group
you
you
movement, power, creation, collaboration, hours and days and walks and pizza slices with you
summer, and everything that means
213 john st
ithaca
ithacans
what is nostalgia?
what is missing a place? a person? a season of life made up of all feelings, smells, tastes, people, sounds, its nature and traffic and establishments and nooks and tree branches
1.friday night we met some very interesting tunisian folks during an evening in which matt and I were out all night with them in fascinating mostly french and english conversation while a friend watched H (a first here- 4 months)
2.we were at a new years party today with 20 or so internationals- all ex pats or visitors, speaking a mix of italian, french and english, sharing good food and plenty of wine and limoncello
3.then we came home to two fulbright friends chillin on the couches for hours, computing and talking and laughing...
...one sits here now even, but i don't want to talk anymore about each other and find out more previously unbeknown facts about her...i just want to feel this, that is for the first time, legitimately missing my most recent home and the people who made it what it was/is. i even cry for it/you/them. part of it being that, here are all these interesting people from around the world, and ex-pats like me, making lives of hopping around the globe: 5 years in Peru, 7 in france, 3 in scotland, now here; or from italy to d.c. to tunisia and moving on again in 2 years; or us and the fulbright types, here for a year... and where do all of them find "home", especially those lifers, the 30-somethings we met earlier today (i.e. this spanish/swedish couple; the france-peru-scotland-tunisia story).
What do I want in a home? Where do I want it to be, and with whom? When?
Missing you and saying hi.
and I am filled with memory
overwhelmed to tears in fact
all the lovely souls in the dance made in a country extravaganza
you
the group
you
you
movement, power, creation, collaboration, hours and days and walks and pizza slices with you
summer, and everything that means
213 john st
ithaca
ithacans
what is nostalgia?
what is missing a place? a person? a season of life made up of all feelings, smells, tastes, people, sounds, its nature and traffic and establishments and nooks and tree branches
1.friday night we met some very interesting tunisian folks during an evening in which matt and I were out all night with them in fascinating mostly french and english conversation while a friend watched H (a first here- 4 months)
2.we were at a new years party today with 20 or so internationals- all ex pats or visitors, speaking a mix of italian, french and english, sharing good food and plenty of wine and limoncello
3.then we came home to two fulbright friends chillin on the couches for hours, computing and talking and laughing...
...one sits here now even, but i don't want to talk anymore about each other and find out more previously unbeknown facts about her...i just want to feel this, that is for the first time, legitimately missing my most recent home and the people who made it what it was/is. i even cry for it/you/them. part of it being that, here are all these interesting people from around the world, and ex-pats like me, making lives of hopping around the globe: 5 years in Peru, 7 in france, 3 in scotland, now here; or from italy to d.c. to tunisia and moving on again in 2 years; or us and the fulbright types, here for a year... and where do all of them find "home", especially those lifers, the 30-somethings we met earlier today (i.e. this spanish/swedish couple; the france-peru-scotland-tunisia story).
What do I want in a home? Where do I want it to be, and with whom? When?
Missing you and saying hi.
1 comment:
Right back at you Honey! I vow not to make any new performances until you are back in the studio with me. I miss our bi-weekly dance more than anything else about Ithaca. I want to subscribe to your blog, but I don't see how to. Help me! xo Kazoo
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