rockethenry

Well, Julia and I got back home from our holidays (very English way to say it). We greatly enjoyed our 4 days in Vermont and our two days in the unique town of Northhampton, MA. You know, Northhampton is the home of Smith College, formerly all girls and part of the women's Ivy League group. Now home for a number of lesbians, a fair group of gay men and just women all over the place. It really changes the character of the town. You just don't have this testosterone/male chauvinist feeling that you realize is in so many other places. Women walk (sit and stand) with a relaxed feeling--their bodies sort of loose and free. You see men walking down the street carrying babies the right way for a change. They don't do dumb things like push strollers dangerously in the streets like they do in my hometown of Woodstock, New York. The whole place has a softer feel, a mellower feel. The restaurants are filled with people really taking advantage of a place to really talk to each other without so much tense, chauvinist pressure that you begin to realize is in most other places. Could I be making this all up? But I've tried these ideas on others who have been there and they say the same thing. So it is a very nice place to visit. The only problem this year, Julia commented on just how there were too many people on the streets. Well, we went the week they were having sidewalk sales so that made it a little mad out on the sidewalks.
Otherwise, Julia and I finished that week and are finishing this second week with me at home, in goo spirits. We have short "tiffs" over little things that come up and not such full-blown arguments as has been our MO in the past. So I'm pretty relaxed in getting ready to go back to work Monday.
Hope you are all well. Get close to somebody this week. Reach out. Relax. Read a poem. And enjoy life.
r-h