This weekend AZ and I have come down to Bloomington for Thanksgiving celebrations, spending time with friends, enjoying the Canopy of Lights festival, and decompressing.

It's an odd turnabout from my childhood, when my parents and I would make the periodically snowy trek north to Chicago to be with my mother's parents, AZ and I now make the trek southward instead, staying in the house my parents owned, but left to be filled only with memories of their lives here.

Today we've been imposing upon Stan's kitchen to make an apple pie, streaming the BBC World Service over the DSL hookup, reading a backlog of books and magazines, and generally enjoying ourselves.

To our friends far and wide, may this weekend be as nice, whether it's trekking south in NYC, north on IN37, or flying across Texas... enjoy.

Posted by esinclai at November 24, 2005 12:51 PM |