"It's okay. Sooner or later everybody goes to the zoo." That might explain Friday, but it applies a little more to Saturday, as we made a two-car field trip to the Memphis Zoo. I don't think I've been to Memphis in five years or more. But the zoo's still at the end of Sam Cooper Blvd, so we found it okay. Miranda and Steve, her boyfriend, better known as Scuba to avoid any mixups with my own kid, Stephen, had been planning this trip for months. We just went along for the ride, but anyone who knows me knows I love to go to the zoo. Can't really explain it, but it's been a life-long fascination. So we spent six hours in the sun, shot a 24-exposure roll of film and took 86 digital shots, and in general acted like tourists. Now I'm back to the REAL zoo, but it's okay for a Monday.
I thought about deleting all the past posts - none of them have any meaning to anyone but me anyway- but I couldn't do it. Let them sit there, unread and unremembered. There were no posts in 2009. There was nothing positive I could find to say, although there were happy moments mixed with the sad. The sweet mixed with the bitter. The birth of my nephew, the death of my mother, the numbness that followed, and lingers. The start of my journey towards an MBA, the job that no longer inspires me, the purchase of an Airstream to help bring me back to center. That was 2009. This is 2010. It's time to turn and face forward, and soldier on.
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