french wrote:
> between that old atlas and that big world map i'm sure i can get close to
> any location, if anyone wants to play, i'm here... simply an email with
> your town or the nearest one if your way in the sticks i'll pin you up.....
Great idea, Dean.
I was born and raised in Virginia, and am now living in New York City in
Manhattan, if your map's large enough to show that spit of land.
It's very interesting finding out where people are, and where they started
from (geographically anyway). I'm wondering how people ended up living where
they do now?
I moved here directly from college because 20 years ago NYC was THE place for
artists to be, and my favorite art teacher knew the owner of a building in the
East Village and that's where I moved to. I was so glad to get out of little
Amherst, Massachusetts that I was in a truck with the moving guys, my cat, my
paints and my plants almost before the graduation ceremony ended.
But now art is everywhere and I fantasize sometimes about moving out of the
city, maybe out west (dry air, beautiful mountains, bright sunshine) although
I'd hate to not be near the ocean anymore. Maybe I'll move to the Jersey
shore. Although I like the idea of living in Paris too. But I'm sure I would
miss the intensity of NYC. Oh, what to do?
Has anyone just picked up and moved because you like the new place as opposed
to moving for a job or to be near family? How did you decide where to go?
And if no one is in the mood to share such stuff, well, I'll just be happy to
be a pin (not a pinhead please) among pins on the JMDL map of the world....
Debra Shea
NP: American League Championship game. Subway series excitement is building,
already.
