So, just shared some non-profit beer with E….did you know that such a thing existed? Well, I just had one, my first, and to be honest it wasn’t amazing, but E. says this company – er, organization – makes good ones including a ginger one that 1. tastes like ginger beer (the soda) 2. is alcoholic. So, sounds good to me. I mean, nothing better than a good ginger beer at the end of October….except maybe a good alcoholic ginger beer that benefits Coney Island restoration projects…

Well, anyway, I’m going back to South Carolina in about a week for a sustainable agriculture conference, and have been thinking about home, and about Georgia and North Carolina – where I’ll also be going before heading back – and about knowing the shades of things that other people lump together. And I think we all have things like that. Things that look all one color to most people, but to us they are kind of a whole rainbow. And I was thinking, sometimes if you’re away from something for too long, you start to forget the rainbow and see it more like people on the outside see it. But then, I think it also happens that sometimes something in you fights against that, and maybe even fights hard enough that you see more of the rainbow than if you’d stayed on the inside. Maybe the rainbow requires motion?

Do you know what I mean?

This is all to say that I miss the South, and I miss living some place where when I say “the South,” they don’t think I’m talking about L.A. I miss living some place old. California is a shiny new toy and I miss my velveteen rabbit a little.

Anyway, me and my non-profit beer fuzzies are going to bed now. Wishing everyone a happy October.

l.o.v.e.

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