Comments on: What a mess! http://www.xpatadventures.com/woefully-out-of-touch ...because not all who wander are lost. Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:44:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Wendy http://www.xpatadventures.com/woefully-out-of-touch/comment-page-1#comment-300 Wendy Fri, 09 Sep 2005 14:51:00 +0000 http://new.www.xpatadventures.com/woefully-out-of-touch#comment-300 Did my reply show up? It said "0 comments" when I returned to your original post. Hmmmmmm. Let's see if it will appear now.<br/><br/>W. Did my reply show up? It said “0 comments” when I returned to your original post. Hmmmmmm. Let’s see if it will appear now.

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]]> By: Wendy http://www.xpatadventures.com/woefully-out-of-touch/comment-page-1#comment-299 Wendy Fri, 09 Sep 2005 14:43:00 +0000 http://new.www.xpatadventures.com/woefully-out-of-touch#comment-299 The "woefully out of touch" goes for me, too! Have been following faithfully your transition since my own return home a month ago now (and I haven't written you since then?!) from a 7,000-mile summer road trip on the heels of hosting Leif's family at our home over the 4th of July...I housed and fed 13 for a week! Sooooo much else I want to ask you & tell you. I can only imagine the challenges and discoveries that have filled you life in these past few months. I would expect that logistics would trump poetry and intellectual exchange for now, but eventually you will get those details ironed out and can indulge in the others in the fertile context of your new culture. I hope that despite the travails you will want to stay in this new post long enough for me to see you when I come to Italy & Switzerland in June of 2007! For a longer personal e-mail to you, should I still use the hotmail address? I will write more soon, especially about the Katrina debacle. It has so colonized my mind and emotions this past week and a half that I feel like only now am I returning to a semblance of my normal self, able at last to compartmentalize it a bit. How bizarre and interesting it must be, as a media analyst, to learn of it and see it through news accounts in another country. Imagine it must be similar to when a friend of mine learned of 9-11 on CNN in a hotel in Singapore -- the images felt surreal. On a happier note, I'm so glad that Mufasa is with you. How's his nose? You'll love this latest, but given our fortunes with dogs, our newest malamute, Chilkoot, who just turned 13 mos. and 100 lbs. and is an absolute sweetheart, broke his leg (!!) after our neighbor's Australian shepherd provoked a fight with him. I am not meant to have dogs, I think. But I can't imagine my life w/o them, so I shall continue to keep large vet bills as a standard part of our spending plan (as if we have a plan, ha!)<br/><br/>So glad you are doing this blog--keep it up, it's like getting regular letters from you when I am far less reliable in return!<br/><br/>Ciao,<br/><br/>Wendy The “woefully out of touch” goes for me, too! Have been following faithfully your transition since my own return home a month ago now (and I haven’t written you since then?!) from a 7,000-mile summer road trip on the heels of hosting Leif’s family at our home over the 4th of July…I housed and fed 13 for a week! Sooooo much else I want to ask you & tell you. I can only imagine the challenges and discoveries that have filled you life in these past few months. I would expect that logistics would trump poetry and intellectual exchange for now, but eventually you will get those details ironed out and can indulge in the others in the fertile context of your new culture. I hope that despite the travails you will want to stay in this new post long enough for me to see you when I come to Italy & Switzerland in June of 2007! For a longer personal e-mail to you, should I still use the hotmail address? I will write more soon, especially about the Katrina debacle. It has so colonized my mind and emotions this past week and a half that I feel like only now am I returning to a semblance of my normal self, able at last to compartmentalize it a bit. How bizarre and interesting it must be, as a media analyst, to learn of it and see it through news accounts in another country. Imagine it must be similar to when a friend of mine learned of 9-11 on CNN in a hotel in Singapore — the images felt surreal. On a happier note, I’m so glad that Mufasa is with you. How’s his nose? You’ll love this latest, but given our fortunes with dogs, our newest malamute, Chilkoot, who just turned 13 mos. and 100 lbs. and is an absolute sweetheart, broke his leg (!!) after our neighbor’s Australian shepherd provoked a fight with him. I am not meant to have dogs, I think. But I can’t imagine my life w/o them, so I shall continue to keep large vet bills as a standard part of our spending plan (as if we have a plan, ha!)

So glad you are doing this blog–keep it up, it’s like getting regular letters from you when I am far less reliable in return!

Ciao,

Wendy

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