Why not just admit it now, without preconditions? You do not need Turq for that. No one ever gets enlightened anyway. Something may happen that gets called 'enlightenment', but no one ever has it.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fleetwood_macncheese@...> wrote : ...and sex, at least once, with a woman, unpaid, in the next five years. I will even admit that I have never been enlightened, if you can accomplish this miracle. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <sharelong60@...> wrote : turq, wishing you and your family good health and much happiness in your new home... On Thursday, July 24, 2014 3:25 PM, "TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> wrote: New home, new "home bar." It's a Law Of Nature, and one that no cafe writer would ever disobey. :-) So, having moved across Leiden, I kiss Bad Habits goodbye (literally) and, as charming as that bar was for a "home bar," I now have a new one. It's called the North End English Pub, and the name pretty much nails the vibe. Classic British pub, with over 50 beers and <genuflect> over 200 varieties of single malt Scotches. 200. This is the kind of bar that writers dream about as existing in Writer Heaven. :-) And now it's my "home bar." There are a couple of bars closer to where I live now. I know because I cruised them prior to coming here tonight. The <Soul Something> was too busy and too young for me tonight, and I've been there, done that with some of the other bars and cafes closer to the harbor, so I went for the North End. So far, it's been an OK choice. Tonight, because it's Summer and the weather is so unseasonably...uh...Summery, I'm sitting outside, at a table along the canal. I live a 2 minute bike ride away, and I suspect I'll be here often during my year-long "writer's retreat" in the new house. It's a nice house. We're renting it from a Dutch family who are Taking A Year Off. They -- father, mother, and two kids -- are living on their sailboat for a year, sailing down the coast of Europe and Africa, and then even striking off across the Atlantic at some point. Meanwhile, we get to live in a much nicer house than we used to live in for the same rent we paid at the old one. Renting it seemed like a way to Take A Year Off ourselves while pondering the question of whether to buy or continue renting, and either way, whether to continue to do it here in Leiden or in France. My suspicion is that at the end of the year we'll continue to rent here and buy a vacation place in the south of France. But at any rate, we're here for a year, and so far I'm liking it. The new house is sunnier, and has amenities like a garden, a glassed-in solarium so we can eat "outside" even when it starts to get colder, and canals at both the front and the back of the house, although the one at the back is more of a tiny stream. We actually have a dock in front of the house that we can use, so I am toying already with the idea of getting a boat, or at the very least a kayak. I've only been here since Monday, and much of my energy up to now has revolved around getting all set up so that we can continue to write for a living. Tonight is the first night I've felt "unpacked and resettled" enough to venture out and find a place to write for fun. So now the adventure begins. What to write about for the next year?
