Back in Cali Again

By Restless [Originally on goofyblog 9.21.07]

The first day of fall and my summer vacation from blogs and all news is now over — and so is my life in New York. As it turned out, my summer vacation was really the end of the end.
My last post was of a panorama. I started a plog the other day and wrote:

It looked to be just another hot, humid summer in new york. This shot [the one I posted in July], taken at 10am, 7/2, on the Upper East Side, of the East River and Roosevelt Island, shows the hazy beginnings of one of those days. How clear was it becoming that things just weren’t going my way any longer, hadn’t been going my way for some years now. Very clear. Everyday brought more clarity: don’t stay here.

Then, a way opened, and I walked through. Good bye for now, new york. So much I’ve learned, understood. Paradoxically, I began to feel more boxed in, more typecast, more immobile there than anywhere else (except perhaps London if I’d lived there for longer than a few weeks).

But, things change and one can benefit from changing with them. Escape from New York. That’s that I’ve done — for now. And off on a wild bus ride across country.

And now. . .see the photo above. Landed in a housesit for the next 6 weeks, my friend visits Southeast Asia twice a year, where Western men over 40 are considered desirable still. He likes it and like I said, things just fell together and that’s a sign.

And after many hours walking the streets of Manhattan listening to Eckhart Tolle on my trusty iPod, I’m all about signs. Pay attention to them. They are all around you.

[to be continued]

P.S., click on the photo for a blow-up. Look at the cat in the center!