I’m a Magpie
The way we live now
4Dec2011 Filed under: Uncategorized Author: Nora
Very suddenly, about a month and a half ago, Brian and I decided to buy a boat. So, buy a boat we did, and so we spent November getting rid of things. Bags and bags of clothes to goodwill, 24 boxes of books to the Friends of the San Francisco public library.
So now we live on the water. We watch birds and seals and talk mostly about the wind, and when I cook everything we own smells like cooking, and when we open the windows it smells a bit like salt and weeds.
And when I wake up in the morning, it’s often still dark. One morning, the moon was setting in the north-west, almost opposite the sunrise. I should have taken a picture, but I didn’t think of it in time. |
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I'm a librarian. Special skills include dog charming, brochure writing, slapdash cooking and long-winded nattering. I also enjoy watching the sunset's reflection in the tall buildings downtown.
For a while there, I taught classes on Classical literature, philosophy, and the history of religion at New College of California. I have an MA and an MFA in Writing, and live on a boat in Sausalito, CA.
Momeester
December 9th, 2011 at 3:53 pm
It still sounds like a dream. You must feel like you are on vacation everyday.
Mary
December 10th, 2011 at 9:40 am
I was surprised by the moon the other night. I looked out across the side yard to see an impossibly bright light beaming through the trees from the lake. My brain flipped through a catalog of things that it might have been before finally realizing it was the reflection of the moon on the water. That’s what happens when all the leaves fall off the trees, I suppose. I get surprised by the lake.
Carisa
January 1st, 2012 at 4:51 pm
That is so cool, Nora! Pictures?