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Newfoundland.

on top of Signal Hill, St. John's

There's so much space here to think it's almost as if there's not enough busy-ness and things going on to keep me all together. One thing that strikes me about the folks here is it seems like they actually care, about me, about you, about whoever. It's nice to be called m'dear and m'love by complete strangers.


I was having a bath today in my lovely Aunt and Uncle's newly renovated bathroom and I thought to myself, wow this is how people used to bathe themselves for a long time, until now! With large puddles of water, and a washcloth. So antiquated, or something. It made me think about how we take showers, and I guess that's cool, because our technology has allowed us to clean ourselves pretty easily and efficiently, standing up and water running down over us and everything.

But what's the point? I mean, I love showers, but I've been relishing the beauty of baths. I was thinking about how we've come up with ways to speed everything up. We've come up with things like showers to have more leisure time, but when we're done showering, what do we end up doing? (... probably just ending up in front of a screen or something like that.)


Anyway, needless to say, I am looking forward one day to owning my own place, maybe, years down the road, and having a great big bathtub with nice bubble baths and nice-smelling candles. And I'll run the water, and lie in the tub. And there'll be so much space, and I'll get used to it, and then, not being so together and efficient all the time, won't be so bad after all.

One of the only places in the world where you can see the earth's mantle, my uncle tells me.

oh, the scenery.